cPanel Perks: Attracta Review

Friends and lovers, I want to share one of my most cherished features of cPanel with you. Why? Because I love you. Truly, madly, deeply.

What is this feature? Attracta

What does it do? Blow minds on a daily basis.

Let’s discuss. Hey, I’ll even show you how to set it up below with pictures and everything!

Essentially, Attracta is a “search visibility technology.” It exists to make sure you are seen by the search engines the right way, which requires a little bit of work at the beginning and mere maintenance later on.

I’m sure that the program is offered for free through cPanel (at least through my HostGator account) with the hopes of converting you to a paid user in the future. Personally, I’ve yet to use their other services, and am completely happy with what I get for free.

What you do:

1. “Get in Google”

This allows you to submit a sitemap to Google, a key step towards increasing web traffic from the holiest of all search engines.

2. “Link Building”

Once set up, you don’t have to change this setting unless your answers change. You create up to 3 backlinks, and maintain a consistent directory posting.

3. “Google Blacklist Check”

As the title says, this is where you can see whether or not you’ve made Google’s hitlist. I mean blacklist. I’ve never had this problem, but just imagine how nice it is to be able to push and button and know whether or not you’ve made them mad. Relationships would be much, much better with a tool like this!

4. “See Your New Listings”

Once you’ve checked everything out, you can submit your listings to the big four: Google, Ask, Bing, and Yahoo. Sweet!

Your Attracta score is either 25, 50, 75, or 100. It is very easy to see when you need to update your listings. Usually, you should go in an update once a week. If you don’t, Attracta will send you a slightly passive aggressive email that starts with something like, “We wouldn’t be sending this email if you could get your act together!” I’m pretty sure that’s not exactly how they say it, but whatever.

Really, I do everything I can to punch my self-hosting friends and clients in the face to take advantage of this otherwise paid service. It takes just a few minutes, and I noticed an immediate jump in traffic when I first signed up for it. So, DO IT. You already have it. You already paid for it. SIGN UP.

How to Link Your Site to Attracta

To do so, sign into cPanel.

How to access Attracta through cPanel

Attracta login through cPanel

To fill out and maintain your Attracta account, use this page.

This is the Attracta homepage on cPanel.

And there you go! Fill out the boxes after step 3, and your site listing will always look like step 4.

Have you used Attracta? If not, do you submit sitemaps? Why? Where? Let’s talk!

Rachael is a loud and sometimes goofy blogger and cheesemonger who lives in the DC area with her father and orange scaredy cat. She lives for food, but shares her freelance and blogging stories with people right here. Why? Because she loves you.