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jashowalter
12-06-2001, 13:33/01:33PM
I created a site for our church and we have no money to submit it to anyone. The website would only be relavent to a few towns in the area. What should I do?
:confused:
ihelpyou
12-06-2001, 13:40/01:40PM
Welcome jashowalter!

Give us some specific questions about optimizing your site first. You need to optimize before you submit.

Also, posting the Url would help. :)
JuniorHarris
12-06-2001, 13:47/01:47PM
There are many engines which still allow free submission, additionally some pay submit services will waive the fee for non-profit websites.

And it is very important to optimize prior to submission
ihelpyou
12-06-2001, 13:51/01:51PM
Good point! The Church should have the papers for a non-profit. To get into the Looksmart directory for free would require that information.

I am looking for the link right now where they talk about non-profits.

Here is the link:

http://submit.looksmart.com/info.jhtml?lastpg=moreinfo&page=nonprofit&sessionParam=rO0ABXNyABNqYXZhLnV0aWwuSGFzaHRhYmxlE7sPJSFK5LgDAAJGAApsb2FkRmFjdG9ySQAJdGhyZXNob2xkeHA%2FQAAAAAAAS3cIAAAAAwAAAAR0AARwYWdldAAIbW9yZWluZm90AARjaGFudAAJbHNob21ldG9wdAAEc3luZHQAAlVTdAAGbGFzdHBndAAAeA%3D%3D
ihelpyou
12-06-2001, 13:57/01:57PM
Once the site is optimized a little, I will submit it to Looksmart for you.

We just need the Url.
jashowalter
12-06-2001, 17:21/05:21PM
Originally posted by ihelpyou
Once the site is optimized a little, I will submit it to Looksmart for you.

We just need the Url.

Here is the url to the church's website. Thanks for your help!!

www.celebrationfellowshipchurch.com
ihelpyou
12-06-2001, 17:42/05:42PM
Okay ja!

We will start at the top of your html code and work down.

First, get all the extra tags out of the head.

Only ones that should be there are:
title
description
keywords
robots

In that order.

Next?
JuniorHarris
12-06-2001, 18:15/06:15PM
You could also consider placing the JavaScript into an external file, and including it with <Script Language="JavaScript" src="name.js"> Many engines do not index JavaScript anyway, plus this will keep the HTML lean and mean as pageone would say.

See cleaning up your HTML (http://www.123seo.com/tip-of-the-day/tip-of-the-day-directory.htm#cleaning-up-your-html) for additional ideas we can help you with.
ihelpyou
12-06-2001, 20:05/08:05PM
Yep. pageone is a sharp guy.

After the head is cleaned up, you may want to research your good keywords to target. Then, put them in the body content of the page a few more times.




Wish pageone would come out and post occassionally! :thebomb:
jashowalter
13-06-2001, 09:26/09:26AM
title is the only thing i see in my html am i supposed to add description, keywords, robots?
sorry, i'm just learning!
ihelpyou
13-06-2001, 09:31/09:31AM
Yep. In this format:

<meta name="description" content="your description goes here">
<meta name="keywords" content="your keywords go here">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">


Just copy and paste and fill in the description and keywords.

You should research your keywords with the GoTo tool or www.wordtracker.com

I cannot find the GoTo tool right now. Maybe someone else can post it. I strickly use wordtracker.
JuniorHarris
13-06-2001, 09:50/09:50AM
http://inventory.goto.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
jashowalter
13-06-2001, 17:29/05:29PM
I put the html code you sent in my html on the home page and it messed my home page up. what am i doing wrong?

front page adds a whole lot of different symbols after i am done copying it to the html.
ihelpyou
13-06-2001, 20:46/08:46PM
Between the <head> and </head> tags you need to delete all the extra tags except for the tags I showed you. Leave the <title> tag also.

Then, copy and paste the 3 tags above exactly into your page, right below the <title> tag.

Frontpage will try to stick back in other tags. Just delete them back out and save it again.
Web Witch
13-06-2001, 22:23/10:23PM
FrontPage (FP) and meta tags can be a totally diffrent story, but do what Doug says then let us see.
JuniorHarris
14-06-2001, 02:11/02:11AM
You may be getting special characters when pasting. If you see symbols such as &gt;, etc try using a paste as HTML. I'm not sure with FrontPage, but it is probably under Edit>Paste>Special>HTML or something close. You may even try right-clicking the document to perform a paste-as-html too.
jashowalter
14-06-2001, 08:30/08:30AM
I change the html like you told me to and it totally change the look of my home page, even removed the navigation bar. Help!
www.celebrationfellowshipchurch.com
ihelpyou
14-06-2001, 08:38/08:38AM
ja,..... you put the code in the body part of the page.

It goes between the head tags.

<head>
<title>
<keyords
<description
robots
</head>

<body>


It goes between the <head> and </head>

You have it right after the <body> tag. Not good.
ihelpyou
14-06-2001, 08:45/08:45AM
ja, if you wish you can give me a call:

( 888 ) 795-3154

I will walk you thru it since it is for the church.