Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: MAX Carpets on January 02, 2011, 09:22:47 am
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Morning all.
You may know by now that I have know idea about websites! I have a website by freestart that I dont really pay much attaention to, however it does pretty well with over 30000 hits??? I have just been looking into it a bit and on the site settings it has the following boxes to fill. Does anyone know what I should put?
Tracker code
Google verification code
Yahoo verification code
Bing verification code.
Forgive my stupidity but its all greek to me!
Happy New Year!
Justin
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30000 hits? Your phone must be red hot!
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Just checked website it has had over 40000 hits not 30K. Not sure how though? Another question, for those that have more than one site, does this really help? Adverts in mags etc are becoming so expensive so I thought I had better get with it and give the interweb cyber space thingy a try! Thanks in advance.
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40000 same as dave your phones red hot ;D
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Not as you would think. This is why I am confused, I only rank well in my hometown (Wokingham) but all surrounding areas I'm knowhere to be seen?
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Whats your web address?
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www.maxcarpetandupholsterycare.com
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You dony rank at all but you are on page one via google local, its no use having a title 'MAX Carpet & Upholstery Care - Your local, friendly, independent..' it should be more like 'Max carpet Upholstery cleaners Wokingham, Reading, Berkshire'
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Justin. can't be helpful on your query but noticed this spelling mistake on your home page
PLEASE REMEMBER THIS OFFER IS TIME SENSETIVE AND WILL EXPIRE JAN 31st 2011.
might be worth correcting
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I noticed that to Mike, cheers.
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I've changed it Dave, will this help?
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Yes, you need to mention areas covered in your pages too.
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Hi Guys
Ignore hits, they are not the same as page views.
When someone looks at your site it will register as say 2000 hits depending on it's size etc. what you are looking for is unique vistors, the more the merrier and yes it does work!
Cheers
Doug
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Get google analytics , it will tell you how many visitors you had, where they came from, how long they stayed, pages viewd etc
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Dave
I have added areas to Home page, will this help? Sorry to a be pain.
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Yes, whatever people search for put in. Have you ut google analytics on?
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I've put it on........................straight over my head!
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Is it just me or is this google M'larky really confusing???
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Look it up and there is a guide how to install it..
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Its ok for you dave your clued up ;)
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Clinton can't read it he's too old and needs his glasses ;D
Back to his ZX81
Shaun
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so what is my google verification code??
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Clinton can't read it he's too old and needs his glasses ;D
Back to his ZX81
Shaun
I still have a ZX81, not sure you can get google on it tho :P
Off to have a look
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Anyone? Google verification code? Would it be my Adwords ID number?
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http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55603
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The google verification code is a code generated by google and then u add It to your website so next time it crawls it, it knows you really own the site.
It's necessary to do I think before you can get any stats on it.
Regards
Steve
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Cheers Steve
Probably a silly question but how do I find this verification code?
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Go to ...
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
Go to "sign in"
There is an option to open a Google account.
Do this and then you will be asked to add sites to your account. As you add them, you will be asked to verify them. They will give you a line of code that should be added to the code of your site or as a separate file.
From what you have said above, I presume you just paste this code into a box and your site builder / host does the rest.
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Great! Cheers Garry, think I've done it!!. Sorry to be a pain but what about a tracker code?
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I'm guessing it's giving you the option to add a tracking code to your site so you can view Google analytics for your site.
If you see a previous post I have given you a link to setting up analytics tracking code.
In the code it gives you to embed on your site there will be a tracking code. Cut and paste that tracking code only in the box for the google code for your site.
Then go into analytics and make sure it's picking it up.
You will need to set up an analytics account FIRST.
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Hey Wynne,
I see our old friend Gill has re emerged as a "commercial SEO specialist".
http://www. seo-commercial.co.uk/contract-seo-services.php
£ 500.00 a month for an hour's Twittering, one blog post a week and (yes, you've guessed) changing meta tags!
You couldn't make it it up ;D
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Not familiar with the individual concerned but I certainly come across the one solution fits all types.
This is the problem, people quite understandably want to throw money at this because everyone tells them the answer is a website and YP etc doesn't work so where do they put that money.
There are plenty of people out there now offering SEO but what do people really want? They want the phone to ring with people they want to talk to or a database of prospects gradually filling up all by itself, even while they sleep. A website is quite often putting the cart before the horse.
When I speak to people the first thing I want to know is what end result they want, not what they have been told they need to get it. Then I need to know is this person serious about online/offline marketing and get the concept of ROI, you would be amazed how many people would prefer to spend £200 and get nothing rather than spend a grand and make ten times that. Sadly there are very few carpet cleaners who are interested, hence why most of my energy is spent elsewhere these days. ;)