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New Powerful Advertising Option on HVAC-Connect.com : Listing Banner Ads

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HVAC Banner Advertising on HVAC-Connect.com

What if you had the option to show your ad in your competitors’ listings for only $69 per month or $599 for a whole year?

Now you do, at least for a limited time. The new Listing Banner Ads on HVAC-Connect.com will show in the detail page of every listing published with a Free Plan or Bronze Plan. That’s on every listing page, including your competitors.

Also, since we are launching the Listing Banners with only 10 spots available, this means your ad will be shown every 10th time a Listing Banner Ad appears, which implies that your ad also has a 10% chance to pop up every time a potential customer views one of your competitor’s listing page. And we’re not talking about the sidebar here, we’re talking right in the middle of the page, below the title and above the description.

Please note that listings published with a Silver, Gold or Platinum plan don’t have any ad showing on their detail page, so your competitors with such plans will be protected. It might be a good idea to make sure your listing is safe from competitors’ ads as well.

We’re so excited that we almost forgot to mention that Listing Banners Ads also appear in business categories and search results! Again with the same 1/10 rotation system.

Last but not least, by subscribing to monthly or yearly renewals now, you will secure the current pricing against future increases for as long as your subscription lasts. And you can cancel your subscription anytime, so there’s no commitment other than the current month or year you’ve already paid for.

What you get for $69 per month (or $599 per year)?

Your ad on your competitors’ listing page, 1 time out of 10.
Your ad on your all other listing pages, 1 time out of 10.
Your ad in business category pages, 1 time out of 10, 4 ads per page.
Your ad in search results, 1 time out of 10, 4 ads per page.
No commitment.
The spot is yours and initial pricing is protected as long as you keep renewing.

First come, first served!

October 4, 2016 | HVAC Admin

CANCELED $10 Setup Fee Now Required For Free Plan Due to Abuse – One-Time Only Fee, Remains Free of Yearly Cost

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EDIT: We are now manually reviewing and approving each new listing. The approval process can take weeks or even months for the Free Plan. Premium plans (Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum) include a 48 hours rapid approval.

We’re sorry to announce that we had to add a one-time setup fee of $10 to our Free Plan due to some abuse. The Free Plan remains free of yearly charges. We hope $10 won’t stop serious HVAC-R and Plumbing companies to add their listing on the #1 HVAC-R and Plumbing business directory. After all, how ridiculous would it be to leave numerous customers to your competitor because you wanted to save… $10?

Why?

Unfortunately, a so-called SEO expert company representing multiple HVAC contractors have abused our Free Plan and cluttered the site with multiple duplicate entries just to plug in their keywords prix boite de viagra. We tried to contact the company using this tactic – which by the way is called Black Hat SEO and can be severely penalized by Google – but nobody returned our calls nor emails.

The Free Plan was offered in good will to let companies try our platform and hopefully upgrade to advanced plans as they see positive results from the free plan. Unfortunately, this good will ended up costing us hours of work to clean up the mess this company created.

It is also notable that we nicely posted their promotional video for free on HVACR.TV a few weeks ago. No need to say that we’ve just removed it.

Last but not least, as soon as we added the $10 charge, that so-called SEO expert company stopped in the creation process of its new listing. They wouldn’t pay $10 to list their customer’s business on a top quality business directory, even though they are probably charging the same customer thousands of dollars per month to do that job.

Thank you CI Web Group!

July 15, 2015 | HVAC Admin

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HVAC Marketing Hub launches its new website: HVACR.TV

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(Original Source: http://hvacplumbingnews.com/hvacr-tv-website-launch/)

HVACR.TV is the first and only video website 100% mobile and dedicated to Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Plumbing. The HVACR industry now has its own YouTube.

All kinds of HVAC, Refrigeration and Plumbing videos are posted on the website and sorted by categories: News, How To Videos, Product Videos, Corporate and Brand Marketing Videos, Funny Videos, Training and Education, Software Presentation and Tutorials, and more.

When landing on the homepage, HVACR professionals quickly find featured videos, the ones that have been viewed and liked the most, and the most recently added videos.

HVACR.TV is an open platform and is entirely free. Companies and users can register and add their own videos. Videos are manually approved to ensure content and film quality.

It is possible to advertise on HVACR.TV. Monthly and annual plans are available. It could be wise to purchase a yearly Ad Plan now as the price is still affordable and quite likely to go up as the site’s popularity grows.

Video marketing is very powerful and HVAC Marketing Hub is providing the industry with another free and efficient marketing tool.

The HVAC Marketing Hub division of Tuobdog Inc. publishes the popular HVAC-Connect.com business directory, the efficient Job Board HVACJobsCenter.com, the news source HVACPlumbingNews.com and the Deals and Coupons website HVACPlumbingDeals.com.

April 27, 2015 | HVAC Admin

If You’re Reading This Now…

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<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4370" src="http://hvac-connect.com/connect/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NewPricing2014-11-25-230×230.jpg" alt="NewPricing2014-11-25" width="230" height="230" srcset="http://hvac-connect viagra 100 g.com/connect/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NewPricing2014-11-25-230×230.jpg 230w, http://hvac-connect.com/connect/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NewPricing2014-11-25-80×80.jpg 80w” sizes=”(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px” />If you’re reading this now, there’s no reason for you not to seize this opportunity. Not only have we just lowered our pricing, but an extra 20% discount coupon is also available on HVACPlumbingDeals.com.

It has never been cheaper to advertise your business in front of thousands of visitors per month, either HVAC-R and plumbing professionals, or consumers looking for HVAC, refrigeration and plumbing products or services. HVAC-Connect.com business directory is the ultimate affordable, targeted and efficient marketing tool for your business.

For more information about our various plans and pricing, visit our Plans and Pricing page.

November 25, 2014 | HVAC Admin

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HVAC Marketing Hub Launches Flagship Site – Features Deals, Promotions & Coupons For The HVAC, Refrigeration and Plumbing Industry

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Local and online deals for Businesses, Professionals or Consumers. Companies and Stores can log online and add their coupons or promotions themselves.

New site recently launched provides a forum for those in the HVAC, Refrigeration and Plumbing industry to both post their latest Deals, Promos & Coupons, as well as those on the lookout for the best deals in the industry. Products and services are included, and are available all over America and Canada. The website is very user friendly and easy to navigate. Users can simply log-on and add their special Coupons and Promos to the site. Industry observers have commented that this site was needed for a long time and fills a great need.

HvacPlumbingDeals.com is quickly on its way to dominating this arena. This is the digital age, and online coupons are the next step in the evolution of brick & mortar advertising. The Internet is Keyword driven, and Coupons and Promos can now be tied to relevant Keywords, affording the opportunity to engage in Target Marketing that is unprecedented. A site like this one is industry specific, and just what was needed to increase the bottom line of all participating firms. Consumers can save money whether they need goods and services for their business or home. When a site visitor sees a coupon of interest, clicking on the coupon brings up full details, and they can go on to the vendors website.

An important aspect of this program is the ability to leave feedback. Site users can give a “Thumbs-Up” if the coupons and promos meet their expectations, or a “Thumbs Down” if not. This system not only alerts future users about the vendors, but keeps the vendors on their toes, as they can see in real time what the consumer thinks of their services. This is public information and can be very impactful on a companies success or failure. HvacPlumbingDeals.com reports a steady increase in site traffic since its launch.

For complete information, please visit: HvacPlumbingDeals.com

November 17, 2014 | HVAC Admin

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Google Pigeon Boosts Business Directories

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Google released a new update on July 24th, nicknamed “Pigeon” by Search Engine Land. According to experts, this recent algorithm change gives better rankings and visibility to local directory sites and listings in search results on Google.

Experts recommend companies to make sure that they appear in directories like HVAC Connect and that they get great visibility and good customer reviews.

For more information visit this link: http://www.sitepronews.com/2014/08/06/googles-pigeon-update-boosts-local-directories/

August 6, 2014 | HVAC Admin

HVAC-Connect.com Not Affected by Heartbleed

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Most of you must have heard about the Heartbleed bug by now. If not, you definitely must read this article. Many experts have rated the Heartbleed bug 11 out of 10 on the security breach scale.

To first understand what Hearbleed is, you can check out this article on Wikipedia or this dedicated, although more technical website.

More importantly, we are writing this article to ensure you that HVAC-Connect.com is in no way affected by this bug. Here’s why:

1. We don’t use the OpenSSL protocol. OpenSSL is used on secure websites – their address starts with https . Because our site doesn’t use nor keep any sensitive information, we use the standard http protocol.

2. Does that mean your site isn’t secure? We use a lot of advanced tools to protect our website from possible attacks. That being said, the only information we have on you is your name, email address, encrypted password and your company listing information, which is public anyways. In other words, a hacker would be very disappointed if he managed to breach our security! The worst he could achieve would be taking down our site or modify your company listing. In both cases, we could fix everything very quickly and easily by restoring one of our regular backups.

3. What about payments? If we were using or storing your credit card information, we would use the OpenSSL protocol… and this article would be a different story. But we redirect all our users to PayPal’s secure website for payments. PayPal use the secure OpenSSL protocol to process your transaction, then only lets us know if your transaction was successful or not. We do not handle any bank or credit card information directly.

4. If PayPal use OpenSSL, then THEY can be affected by Hearbleed! This article on Mashable lists all major websites, if they were affected and patched, and if you should change your password on these sites. As per this article and many others out there, PayPal is not affected by Heartbleed. Here’s also Paypal’s Press Release in the PayPal Community.

5. But I see Facebook, Twitter and Google on that list. I use one of these to connect to your site! Don’t panic, all we’ve got is the authorization to read your public profile and posts. When you log in with Twitter, Facebook or Google (or even LinkedIn, which isn’t affected), we only receive confirmation that you’re really who you say you are. We can in no way access your private information, modify your profile or post something for you, we don’t have the access rights.

So you have nothing to fear on our side. That being said, if you do have a Twitter, Facebook or Google+ account – or any account on that list – , we highly recommend changing your passwords now. But rest ensured that your account on HVAC-Connect.com is safe.

We hope you found this article useful and now feel reassured about your HVAC-Connect.com account. Please don’t hesitate to share with your friends and colleagues.

April 13, 2014 | HVAC Admin

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HVACJobsCenter.com Up and Running!

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HVAC Jobs, Plumbing Jobs and Refrigeration Jobs on HVACJobsCenter.com

HVACJobsCenter.com is officially launched. HVAC Jobs Center is a Web, Mobile and Social platform dedicated to HVAC, Plumbing and Refrigeration Jobs in the US and Canada. Job Seekers have free access to all functionalities. Once registered, they can:

Search and view job offers
Add online resume to be found by Recruiters
Apply to jobs online in a few clicks
Setup Job Alerts to be informed by email as soon as matching Job Offers are posted

HVACJobsCenter.com lists exclusive offers along with external offers appearing on other sites. No need to waste precious hours searching multiple generic sites for duplicate job offers and jobs in non-relevant fields. Find all the best HVAC Jobs, Refrigeration Jobs and Plumbing Jobs in one single place.

Are You Hiring?

HVACJobsCenter.com is also an ideal employment site to post HVAC, Refrigeration and Plumbing Job Offers. Speed up and optimize your recruiting process by posting your job offers on a specialized website. Generic Job Posting Websites are checked by all job seekers. Some of them are desperate and would apply to almost any job even though they lack proper experience and qualifications. HVACJobsCenter.com is targeting Professionals of the HVAC, Refrigeration and Plumbing industry only and therefore greatly reduces the percentage of unqualified applications, saving recruiters some precious time.

You will also find HVACJobsCenter.com‘s dashboard very efficient. Create your Employer or Recruiter profile and post your job offers in minutes. Receive applications online, manage your company profile and your job offers in our user-friendly dashboard. Each job posted on HVACJobsCenter.com is shared on all major Social Medias, immediately reaching thousands of qualified candidates.

Try it Out, One Free Job Posting

Our job posting cost and plans are very competitive, yet we’d like you to try the site for Free and see for yourself how you like it. Employers and Recruiters, register now and post your first job offer on us!

Click Here For More Information

April 10, 2014 | HVAC Admin

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April Fools’ Promotion on HVAC-Connect.com

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This is no April Fools! HVAC-Connect.com is launching an amazing promotion for this week only!

Buy a Gold Plan Featuring your Company listing in up to 15 categories for one year at $99 instead of ~~$299~~.

Just login to HVAC-Connect.com, upgrade your existing listing or create one if you haven’t already, select the Gold Plan and use the coupon code APRILFOOLS at checkout. The promotion is valid this week only, coupon must be used at the latest on April 4, 2014 viagra montreal.

April Fools Promotion 2014 on HVAC-Connect.com