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11 years 1 week ago #37425 by Brian
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1) make your site marietta.toastmastersclubs.org

2) use the word Marietta Toastmasters on your site many times

3) change the url on club central to match your new club alias.

4) remember search engines search text not pictures, so have text with every picture and use Marietta Toastmasters in the description of the picture
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11 years 1 week ago - 11 years 1 week ago #37428 by SteveTheTechie
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Clubs sometimes wonder why their club does not come up right away in search engine results when they search by city.

In my experience, you need to make sure you are doing everything you can to help the search engines find you. I took a look at your website. Here is what I found:
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Description: The official web site of club #1430 in Marietta Toastmasters at the Square Keywords: Public Speaking, Toastmasters, speech, Marietta, Square, big chicken, GA, Leadership, communication Home page text: Some of our group at the Area International Speech and Table Topics Contest where Tracie Grabarkewitz (3rd from left on front row) came in 1st place in the Table Topics Contest. Congrats Tracie!! And thank you for showing of what this Marietta Toastmasters club is made.
These are used by search engines to find you and rank you in results. My opinions:

1. Description is short, terse and disorganized, no mention of Marietta in Georgia... could be a club in Marietta, OH. (not specific) I would put something like Welcome to the official web site of Toastmasters Club #1430, Toastmasters at the Square, located in Marietta, Georgia. We meet ___ on __days of each ____. (It should show up in search results as an invitation to be clicked.)

2. Keywords are disorganized. Spell out Georgia and place it after Marietta without a comma (Marietta Georgia) so they are grouped together. Don't just say Square... use Toastmasters at the Square. (Or use both.) Use lots of keywords and variations on them... objective is to be found.

3. Home page text is short and does not serve as an invitation to a prospective website visitor. Home page text does not mention Marietta *Georgia*.

So... my question is given what i see why should you expect to be found with Marietta Georgia?
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11 years 1 week ago #37429 by 4941
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Then explain how a club like this one can show up searching for "Marietta Toastmasters", and mine does not !?!?!
www.northmetrotoastmasters.com/
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11 years 1 week ago #37431 by SteveTheTechie
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They are not on the first page of search results, but their website is more developed and has more links to to other websites and probably more links back to their website from other websites.
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