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Fill up your website meta-description and meta-keywords
These are located in Admin Management – Site Configuration & Navigation – Advanced Tab
Use a one-two sentences description and 10-15 keywords related to your website.
(the above instructions are related to a SimpleUpdate website, the one that you will have for free inside our Christian Web School)
Example:
Meta description: British Columbia Church Demo Website, a Seventh-day Adventist church in Vancouver, BC. Looking for a church to join? Visit your local Seventh-day Adventist church in Vancouver, BC and see how you and your family fit in to the Christian community provided by this SDA church.
Meta keywords: Christian Church Vancouver, BC,Seventh-day Adventist Church Vancouver, BC, seventh day adventist, seventh day adventists, seventh-day adventist, seventh-day adventists, 7th day Adventists, 7th day Adventist, local Christian church, sda church, find a church
Google Analytics
http://www.google.com/analytics/
This is a free Google feature that connects your site with Google statistics and builds many useful reports: visitors (how many, location etc), keywords, browsers used, languages etc.
You need to have a Google account to use this. You can signup free for a Google account at www.gmail.com , click on Signup. This will also provide a free email account for you. Google Mail is good to collect unwanted spam. Google analytics will provide a code for you and you can place this code into your website in Admin Management – Site Configuration & Navigation – Advanced Tab – Google Analytics box.
Submit your website to search engines
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Submit your site to Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
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Submit your site to Yahoo Search: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html(Note: you must have a Yahoo ID)
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Submit your site to MSN Search: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
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You also may want to submit your site to a Directory of websites called DMOZ: http://dmoz.org/help/submit.html
Google webmaster tools
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
Here you can add a Google sitemap for your site. This will help your website to be better indexed with Google. The sitemap URL is http://www.yourchurchURL.org/sitemapxml.php (replace yourchurchURL with your church website address, e.g. burnabyadventist.ca, mapleridgeadventist.ca etc.)
Google AdWords
Here you can buy advertising for your site and setup where do you want to place it (by continents, regions or cities). For example you can target your ads to 100 km. Around Vancouver.
Google AdSense
This Google tool let you install contextual ads on your website. These are ads from other websites that are related to the text presented on your pages.
Useful links
http://help.adventistchurchconnect.com/article.php?id=74
http://help.simpleupdates.com/article.php?id=36
Prepared by Lucian Mihailescu, www.lucianwebservice.com , info@lucianwebservice.com
