Migrating to FTH4

Your club admin received the instructions to update their admin password to access FTH4. (FTH3 admin passwords will NOT work in FTH4). Follow the instructions in the email and use 'Member sign in' in the top right corner to access the Club Admin account.

If you are not sure who the club admin is, in your member account; look at 'Club Officers and Members' > "Club Email addresses". The LAST item in this list is the person who is currently listed as your club admin.

If this is not correct, please complete and submit this form to change your club admin:
www.toastmastersclubs.org/welcome/change-admin/

website does not appear in a google search

  • Brian
  • Brian's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Administrator
  • Administrator
  • Posts: 13957
  • Thanks: 4148

Re: website does not appear in a google search

11 years 1 month ago
#53129
You don't use the word Toowoomba enough on your front page for it to become a keyword for Goggle.

The clubs you are competing with have Toowoomba in the club name which is a great advantage.

Try putting the word Toowoomba and address right at the top of the front page and leave it there for 6 weeks and see if Google likes you any better.

Use the word Toowoomba

Try using word combinations like

Toowoomba BUSINESS FOCUS Toastmasters Club

BUSINESS FOCUS Toastmasters Club in Toowoomba

Sometime you need to slap google up the side fo the head so you need to use the google webmaster tools, like we tell you in the documentation. We don't write documentation just to fill space there is always reason.

If you read the documentation links I sent you the meta data information is contained in those docs.

The information on the website alias is also contain in the docs.
support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/website-alias
Thank you,

Brian McDonald DTM
Silver and Wiser Online Toastmasters Club #777940

Technical Support Consultant and Developer for FreeToastHost
The topic has been locked.
  • RogerM
  • RogerM's Avatar
  • FreeToastHost Ambassador
  • FreeToastHost Ambassador
  • Thanks: 0

Re: website does not appear in a google search

11 years 1 month ago
#53140
What do I need to do to get you to answer the questions in my emails? This is not a rhetorical question – I really really want to know.

Did you read my email?

Margaret,

While we may not be as prompt as you would like, we do the best we can as a group of volunteers, each of us with full-time employment, Toastmasters club (and for some, area, division or district) responsibilities, as well as families.

Please be as patient as you can be. We are trying to help you as much as we can.
The topic has been locked.
  • SteveTheTechie
  • SteveTheTechie's Avatar
  • Offline
  • Emeritus
  • Emeritus
  • Posts: 11492
  • Thanks: 3057

Re: website does not appear in a google search

11 years 1 month ago
#53141
Margaret:

It seems as you are claiming that we have not answered your questions. However, I would disagree as it seems to me like you simply do not like the answers we are giving you and are therefore discounting them as "non-answers".

We are giving you the best answers we can based on our experience and know-how. However, SEO is not an exact science... it is basically an art form... since Google does not divulge their search ranking algorithm, we (and everyone else) are basically left to making educated guesses based on rules of thumb as to why the search results are the way they are.

Also, I am sorry if some of this seems overly complicated. It is web development stuff, and we can only simplify it so much. You have to take some responsiblity for learning some of the technical stuff. We can help point you in the right direction but you still are going to have to be willing to learn some new stuff and try our our suggestions without discounting them out of hand as "non-answers".
The topic has been locked.
Moderators: Brian, Heni, Pam, RichardT, NotLiable, NSB, jgavin, Lcala305, peterb323, DebbieT
Time to create page: 0.227 seconds