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| Rates |
 | Zhibit.org offers some of the lowest subscription rates in the industry. Use your PayPal account or major credit card to pay monthly, or prepay for a year and save. |
| Subscription | $19/month
$189/year
(save $39/year) | $12/month
$119/year
(save $25/year) | $5/month
$49/year
(save $11/year) | FREE
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| There is no upfront setup fee to get started with Zhibit.org. |
| Setup fee | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| We don't charge you for your work; only for ours. This means that Zhibit.org does not charge a commission when you sell your artwork, but instead only a flat fee for the service of putting it online. |
| Transaction fee | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
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| Website hosting |
| Different plans put different caps on the amount of data, including text and images, that you can store on your account at any given time. You are always free to remove old content to make room for new one. |
| Storage space | 2,000 MB | 1,000 MB | 250 MB | 50 MB |
| Visitors of your website are typically presented with scaled down versions of your images to make them fit in a browser window. Some plans allow your visitors to zoom in and view the full-sized, high resolution images. |
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| While no method can fully guarantee that your images will not be copied or duplicated, Zhibit.org employs various technical means to protect your copyright in the work you upload to the site. |
| Copyright protection | | | | |
| When you connect a privately owned domain name to Zhibit.org you designate our systems to serve all requests to it. When visitors navigate their browser to your domain, our servers will respond while obscuring our domain name from the browser's address bar. Domain names must be registered separately and additional costs may be involved. |
| Domain name aliasing | | | | |
| Link your Google AdSense for Content account to display online ads on your website and earn a share of the revenue they generate. This feature is currently in beta and is subject to change at any time. |
| Ad timeshare (beta) | 100% | 70% | 50% | |
| Search-in-site is like a search engine that is internal to your website. It allows visitors to run searches using a common textual search box to more quickly find the content they're looking for. |
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| The download center is like an online folder where you can store files of any kind and share them with the visitors of your website. |
| Download center | | | | |
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| eCommerce |
| Link your PayPal business account with Zhibit.org and allow your visitors to buy your art directly off your website. The limit set by the plan is on the maximum unit price of each item offered for sale. |
| Online sales with PayPal | Unlimited | $1,500/item | $500/item | |
| A shopping cart allows buyers to aggregate multiple items into a single order and to commit one large purchase. Without a shopping cart, buyers must instead purchase each item separately. |
| Shopping cart | | | | |
| Zhibit.org's price formulas give you finer control over the pricing of your items by letting you break them into features and price each individually based on the buyer's choice. Price formulas also group similar items together so that a price change is reflected in all associated items at the same time. |
| Complex pricing | | | | |
| Manage the inventory of items you place for sale on Zhibit.org, from a one of a kind item to unlimited, reproducible items. The inventroy of items that sell is automatically updated and any items that sell out are automatically taken off sale. |
| Inventory management | | | | |
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| Community |
| Zhibit.org's application for Facebook integrates with Facebook to publish your website on your Facebook profile, exposing it not only to your immediate Facebook friends, but also to their friends and the friends of all other Zhibit.org subscribers. |
| Facebook integration | | | | |
| Zhibit.org's guestbook manages your mailing list in accordance with industry norms, including subscription (on an opt-in basis) and email address verification. Visitors who sign your guestbook receive periodic updates by email whenever you update your site. |
| Guestbook with newsletter | | | | |
| Bulletins let you send out email messages to your guests with the content of your choosing at any time (frequency limitations apply). |
| Guest bulletins | | | | |
| Blogs are the web's version of diaries and are best to express thoughts or to publicize topics that you care about. |
| Blog | | | | |
| Use discussion forums to connect with the other members of the Zhibit.org community. |
| Forum access | | | | |
| Comments are very useful for collecting short, on-the-go feedback from visitors who often don't wish to send a complete message by email. Collect feedback from your visitors in the form of comments on your art, blog or guestbook. |
| Comments and feedback | | | | |
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| Web traffic |
| Zhibit.org's directory is a sure way to increase the visibility of your website and to help visitors find your artwork. The directory lists all member websites cross sectioned by geography or categories and makes your artwork searchable through Zhibit.org's site search. |
| Directory listing | | | | |
| When you publish your website on Zhibit.org we automatically submit its sitemap to all the major search engines to get it crawled and indexed as soon as possible. |
| Search engine listing | | | | |
| Zhibit.org employs extensive search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to improve the ranking of your website and increase the chances that it will be discovered by people searching for art. |
| Search engine optimization | | | | |
| Link your third-party site analytics account with Zhibit.org to analyze how visitors interact with your website. |
| Site analytics | | | | |
| Blog pinging is a technique that automatically notifies blog indexing services of new blog entries, thus maximizing the exposure of your blog. All blogs posted to Zhibit.org are automatically submitted (pinged) to the main blog indexing services. |
| Automatic blog pinging | | | | |
| RSS syndication is a method of sharing and broadcasting content from a website. It enables your site's visitors, using an RSS news reader, to subscribe to, and be notified of, changes to your site. |
| RSS syndication | | | | |
| Social bookmarking is a method for storing, organizing, searching, managing and sharing bookmarks of web pages. All websites hosted on Zhibit.org integrate with the major bookmark sharing services such as Digg and del.icio.us to facilitate the saving, tagging and sharing of your web pages. |
| Social bookmark sharing | | | | |
| Crawl priority increases the priority and frequency of the crawl of your content and allows you to choose keywords to be associated with your website. Crawl priority does not affect the ranking of your content in search results. |
| Crawl priority | | | | |
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| Technology |
| Uptime statistics are based on historical data and do not constitute a future guarantee nor an SLA. |
| Uptime | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.9% |
| Whether your site is visited by one or one hundred people a day, unlimited data transfer is included with all subscription plans. |
| Data transfer | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Zhibit.org's network is connected to the world's largest backbone providers ensuring responsive and reliable connectivity regardless of where your audience resides. |
| Ultra high speed network | | | | |
| Zhibit.org is backed up daily in case of unforseen major problems. That being said, accounts cannot be restored on an individual basis and you are advised to back up your own data. |
| Daily backups | | | | |
| Zhibit.org employs several techniques intended to reduce the chance that spammers will get a hold of your personal information or graffiti your website. Some of these techniques, such as the CAPTCHA, are visible, while others operate behind the scenes. |
| Anti-spam measures | | | | |
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