20100303 Search Engine Tasks for Your Website

Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

The article in this issue introduces you to some of google's tools to help you get a handle on your website.

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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In This Email:

Article: Basic Search Engine Tasks for Your Website Using Google Webmasters Tools

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Quotes:

- If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. ~ Henny Youngman

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Article: Basic Search Engine Tasks for Your Website Using Google Webmasters Tools

Here are some basic search engine optimization and webmaster tasks you need to do for your website.

1. Go to Google's business center and register your business and address.

- Go to http://maps.google.com
- Click the link Add A Site.
- Register your business.

2. Track your visitors.

- Go to http://www.google.com/analytics
- Regsiter your website.
- Get your analytic tracking code and add to your website.
- If you are using DotNetNuke go to Admin, Google Analytics to enter.
- Otherwise, follow google's instructions for adding to your website

3. See how google sees your website.

You will need to register in google webmaster tools first.
Google has a lot of different places to register.

- Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
- Register your website.
- Go to verify your website and follow the instructions.
- Go to Site Configuraton, SiteMaps and submit your site.
- If you are using DotNetNuke your sitemap file is: SiteMap.aspx
- Otherwise you will need a sitemap for your website.

After google indexes your website you can check to see how google sees your website. You may have to check back after some time.

- Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
- Go to Your Site on the Web, Keywords

You can also go to www.Bing.com and www.Yahoo.com and use their webmaster tools.

4. Change your website to maximize your keywords

It is eye opening to see how google views your keywords. You will likely see a bunch of useless keywords at the top of your rankings
and you will know where they come from.

Change the wording on your website to maximize your keywords for what people search for. When you see how google sees your website,
you will know what to change.

1. Think keywords, keywords, keywords. Keywords are things people search for. Anything that is not a keyword in a title hurts you.

2. Remove "Us" from your menu items and titles in things like About Us and Contact Us.

3. Put your menu items in alphabetical order, not the order you want people to click on. The brain likes order, alphabetical order.
This is for people, not search engines.

If you have a book or online course, then put things in the order they are to be seen. Otherwise, alphabetize.

4. Your submenu items can be long and filled with keywords.

5. Post Pages, Articles and Forum items on your website.

Fill the titles of your entries with keywords only. In the body of the items, include your keywords as much as possible. Any word
that is not a keyword hurts you instead of helping you.

Pages are formal.
Articles are semi-formal.
Forum entries are informal.

Generally, multiple short items are better than one long item. Both people and search engines can get lost as to what exactly is the
topic.

Space out your items over time. You must continually update your website to keep search engines coming back.

You can find this article online here
www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/145/Search-Engine-Optimization-SEO-Basic-Tasks-for-Your-Website-Us
ing-Google-Webmasters-Tools.aspx

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20100205 Internet Handholding Newsletter DotNetNuke Store Survey Twitter Aweber Email

www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/138/DotNetNuke-Store-and-Survey.aspx

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20100204 Internet Handholding, Local Search, Twitter, Store, Survey, Aweber

Hello Andrew, and other Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,

Two short articles to keep you up-to-date.

Bill Gates talks Twitter with Jon Stewart, short and funny.
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/01/26/jon-stewart-talks-twitter-with-bill-gates

This is a twitter photo feed. Has to be seen to be believed.
www.PicFog.com

Post your photos for use with Twitter.
www.TwitPic.com

Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew

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In This Email:

1. Local Search Maps.Google.Com

2. Twitter Signup

3. DotNetNuke Store and Survey

4. Aweber Email Marketing List

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Quotes:

- Avoid conflict by minimizing confrontations.
~ Shlomo Ressler

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1. Local Search Maps.Google.Com

If you do business in your local market, you want to make sure your business shows up in local search results.

For example, go to Google and search for: Gainesville Dance

Near the top of the search results on the left side is a listing of local dance businesses.

To get your business listed here, you need to let Google know where your business is located.

Go to http://maps.google.com

On the left side, click the link to add your business and follow the instructions.

That will get you in the game, at least.

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2. Twitter Signup

You probably have heard of Twitter, but you may not be using Twitter yet.

Twitter lets you send messages of 140 characters.

This is not much, but it is enough to post a link.

Twitter is called a micro blogging service and there are plenty of copycats.

You might wonder what good is Twitter? Well people are finding all kinds of uses for it. See this page for some websites.

www.internethandholding.com/Member/LinksWebsitesReference/LinksTwitter.aspx

I do not know what you are going to use Twitter for, but I suggest you get a good account name (while you still can) and start checking it out.

While you are at it, follow Internet Handholding by going to this link and clicking the follow icon.

www.twitter.com/internethandhol

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3. DotNetNuke Store and Survey

DotNetNuke comes with both Store and Survey modules. I installed them on a couple of customers and they look good.

Take a look at the DotNetNuke Survey here. This customer created the survey himself with no help from me.

www.dgaffney.com/Home/Survey.aspx

You can see the DotNetNuke Store here. I set this up for the customer, but it was easy enough for anyone to add products.

www.verajoffe.com/Store/tabid/479/CategoryID/1/Default.aspx

Also take a look at here Articles page. She posted these herself. Somehow she figured out how to get the images in there also. Congratulations. You can she is already getting visitors without any other publicity.

www.verajoffe.com/Articles.aspx

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4. Aweber Email Marketing List

I have switched my email service to Aweber and like it a lot.

They have a nice wizard for setting up Subscribe Forms. This has a lot of uses, but too technical for this article.

You can set up a series of messages to automatically go to new subscribers. These are called autoresponders.

If you subscribe to this Internet Handholding newsletter, you will automatically receive one short tip every week or so in addition to the newsletter. This is a great way to catch people up who missed earlier newsletters.

Click here to check out Aweber.

Constant Contact is also good, but does not have autoresponders.

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Copyright (c) 2009, Bronze Inc. All rights reserved.

Andrew Weitzen, publish@internethandholding.com, 352-327-3672, Gainesville, FL

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How to Add an Aweber Form to DotNeNuke and Asp.Net Pages

Wrote an article on how to add an Aweber.com form to DotNetNuke and Asp.net web pages.

www.dotnetnuke.bz/Articles/tabid/156/DotNetNuke/127/How-to-Add-an-Aweber-Form-to-You-DotNetNuke-and-Aspnet-Pages.aspx

How to Break out of an IFRAME from a FORM in a SCRIPT

Wrote an article about how to break out of an IFRAME when using a script from someone else.

This gives you the javascript code to add the target="_blank" tag to the FORM in the other websites code.

Useful for DotNetNuke and Asp.net in particular.

www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/126/Break-Out-of-an-Iframe-in-the-Same-or-New-Window.aspx

How to Delete Cookies for One Site

Had an affiliate code in my browser that was not mine. I was signing people up for under someone else's affiliate code. That was not
good.

To get rid of their affiliate code, had to delete the cookie for that website.

See this article on How to Delete Cookies for One Site
http://www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet-Marketing/121/How-to-Delete-the-Cookie-for-One-Website.aspx

How to know what to do

Great short article on how to layout principles for developing a philosophy to guide you.
http://www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/109/How-to-Know-What-to-Do.aspx