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Tools for improving websites

 

Self-scoring survey for evaluating
your church's website (pdf)


Free website template downloads

1. Free CSS Templates

2. Free CSS Templates

 

Add a Google Search to your website:

Allows visitors to search content of your site, including PDF files (e.g. newsletters)or search the Internet from your site.

Open Home/Index page of your website in "code" or "source" view for editing.

Highlight text below and copy.

Paste where you want the Google search to appear.

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">

<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:4px;width:20em;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td>
<input type="text" name="q" size="25"
maxlength="255" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" style="font-size:75%">
<input type="checkbox" name="sitesearch"
value="xxxxxxxxxxxx.com" checked /> only search xxxxxxxxxxxxx<br />
</td></tr></table>
</div>

</form>

After value="  Change the x's to your church web site URL (example: welcometohosanna.com,
emanuels-seguin.org).

After only search, change x's to church name (example: Hosanna Lutheran Web Site or welcometohosanna.com)

Free online helps

Search engine "spider" simulator

Simulates a Search Engine by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it.

It also displays the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) by a Search Engine when it visits a webpage.

Website Keyword Suggestions

The basis of ALL search engine rankings is keywords. Users enter key phrases in Search Engines to get information they need. It is VERY important that you optimize for such key phrases.

This tools tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates.

Keyword Density Checker:

Type URL of website to check

 

Keyword Density Checker

Enter a URL to analyze

Search Engine Tools

A wide-range of free tools for checking your website, all on one page.

GifBot

Use this free image optimizer to slim down "fat" graphics: the leading cause of slow-loading Web pages. 

PrimoPDF

Free tool download for converting virtually any Windows document to PDF.

PDF Online™

Free online conversion of files to PDF

Hide the NavBar at the top of a Blogger page:


In the Blogger Dashboard, click "Change Settings."

Click "Template" tab.

Scroll down until you find this tag:

<style type="text/css">

Copy and insert this code after the >

#b-navbar { height:0px; visibility:hidden; display:none }
Click "Save template changes"

Search engine submission tips:

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=webmasters

Explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with an emphasis on what webmasters can do to improve their search engine rankings by properly submitting, using better page design, HTML meta tags, and other tips.

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