How To Make Our Community Easier to Find

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A member of our sister site http://www.ChiariSupport.org posted a tutorial on how to make our community easier to find on the internet by linking to us from your blog. It makes a huge difference to Google in making us easier to find. I’m pasting the tutorial here. The original is located here: http://www.chiarisupport.org/forum/topics/helping-the-network-become. Thanks to Alicia of ChiariSupport.org for this.


BEGIN ALICIA'S TUTORIAL---------------------------------------------------

I was asked to share how to post a chiarisupport badge on your site or blog.

Posting the badge on your site or blog is fairly easy. It is a good way to share with others this site and let others know you are apart of this community.

It is on my blog:

Directions:
First on the Home Page under "Main" on the right side column you may have noticed a box that says "Badge" and my photo (yours will be there on your own page)

Click "Get Badge" under the badge to get the badge. It will take you here:

On this page you can customize your badge. You can change the size. 3 options. Change the background color and the text color. You can share it on facebook. Add it to Myspace. The embeded code at the bottom is what you click and copy to paste on your site or blog.

Now depending on what blog you have or site there will be a different place to put it.
I have Blogger. Under "Design" they have "Add a Gadget" where you can select the HTML/Java Script Gadget and paste the embeded code there. I can give more detailed instructions if I know what everyone is using.

To see what it looks like on another site customized here is mine below (also just updated with new post on Chiari Walks!!)

http://chiari-life.blogspot.com

If you have any questions on how to post it somewhere, please feel free to ask me!:)

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Hopefully this thought is appropriate to the discussion on making the community easier to find. I just ran a google search on the term "site: www.livingwithtn.org". There were about 19,100 results!

Although some of the hits reference pages on the site itself, it appears that we have significant visibility on other sites such as the Myelin Project. From time to time, I also reach out to webmasters of major health and medicine sites across the net. I would recommend that Ben and/or Scott take steps to get listed in the master database at the Health on the Net Foundation, as well. There is a standard of excellence to be met in site policies, in order to qualify. But from what I've observed, I'd say we're pretty much "there".

Finally, it may be in order to add a default field to the "Meta Name" HTML headers of every page on the site, indicating that our content is about Trigeminal Neuralgia Patient Support. That term is well known to the Internet search engines.

Just my two Red cents, for whatever they are worth.

Regards and best,

Red

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Thanks, Red. It’s a lot of work to get high ranking in Google! The best thing is links from web sites and blogs!