How to get your charity noticed on the internet can be very time consuming or very easy, depending on the way you go about it. Registering your domain with the 3 major search engines is a good start. Do a search for the webmasters tools for Google, Bing and Yahoo and follow their instructions for registering your domain with each of them. You will need to create a e-mail account with each of them to manage your submission. A good start is to get Gmail for Google, just do a search for gmail and sign up for an account it is free. Update I have added links to the most useful links, you can find them down the right hand side of the page. Thought I would make it a bit easier for those that just browse.

Once you have registered your domain with the search engines and it is assumed that your website or domain has good content that visitors are looking for to get your charity noticed, in other words good keywords that count. Then you can start building external links for you business. The best way to get good quality links is to find similar websites and blogs that are willing to swap links with each other. This is worth a lot more to the search engines than you going out and putting links into sites that have no similarity to your own. In saying this website directories that have common interest in what you do and other forums and blogs can be a useful source for getting links to your domain noticed. A word of caution, do not do searches to Submit urls . You could do this but all you would be doing is submitting to any old website that has no relevance to your business and this could damage your organic listings with the search engines.

So what is the answer to get your charity noticed on the internet. Website Optimisation, Good content, register with all 3 major search engines and get your self good quality external links to attract the traffic. Become a leader amongst the other domains and as Googles unofficial motto goes, Don’t Be Evil.

Check out my other pages for more hints and tips, drop me a line or leave a comment! You can even ask for help, I am learning all the time. Have a great day and get your charity noticed.

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We are willing to help any Not For Profit Charity for free, visit our Non Profit Charities page for all the full details. Why do we do this, the answer is simple, giving back to our community is important to us and no we don’t ask for any money in doing it.

We will accept a donation to help us with our yearly costs, but don’t go out of our way to look for any financial support. Most things in Australia can be done at no cost. You still need to buy your own domain name and we recommend you pay for a domain 5 years in advance and keep it that way. This helps Google see you are fair dinkum about having a business online.  We recommend Godaddy as a domain provider and it will probably cost you about $50.00 Australian for 5 years. Sometimes you can get a special offer and get it for a bit less.

All other needs for your domain are cost free, we don’t try to get you to buy expensive software to build web pages of do ftp file transfer, and we are happy to help you learn how to do all of this as well.

So if you are a Non Profit Charity, go to our contact us page and send us an e-mail and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

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People keep ringing me up trying to work out how I make money by helping Non Profit Charities at no cost. Well I can save you hours of pondering, I don’t make any money out of it, and would appreciate it if money hungry people would stop ringing me, trying to work out the gimmick that is simply not there.

My sole purpose in running this website is to help charities in Australia get a website or blog at no cost to them. I will teach them how to build their own and stop the scams form trying to hood wink them out of their money.

If anybodies asks for money from a charity in Australia, then they are full of crap. Leeches of the worst kind, it is easy to run a website of your own, just drop me a line and I can show you how, and please stop ringing me about, how do I make money, the answer is simple. I DON”T.

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Google Adwords for Non Profits in Australia

If you live in Australia and you are a Non Profit Business, you may have visited Google for Non-Profits. When you visited there, if you came to the conclusion that the website is just for America, then you would be wrong. Google Adwords for Non Profits can take up to 6 months to get approval but it is worth the wait.

You will need to have your DGR certificate to prove you are entitled to apply and your ABN as well. Think very carefully about how you layout your application. Don’t have affiliate marketing on your website or use Google Adsense to advertise your business. Not sure about this last one. You can go to the Google Grants forum for more help.

Google Apps for Non Profits.

Google has launched their support for Australia in the area of Google Apps for Non Profits. I support a local branch of Meals on Wheels and they applied for 20 accounts with Google Apps and to their surprise Google came back with 50 accounts for them. Here is a link to UTube on Google Apps. You can set up your company with interactive support between each other. In other words if you are working on a document and another staff member is working on the same document at the same time then your document will update straight away. This is what is known as collaboration. You can even revert back to your original documents if you don’t want what was changed. What does this mean for you, well no more e-mail documents all over the place. It is much easier and faster. There are lots of other things that come with Google Apps, like Google Gmail and Google Videos.

How do you apply for a Non Profit account is easy, there is some confusion on this, when you apply you need to fill out the Education package. It starts out by saying Google Apps for Non Profits but when you click on get started, it says Educational. Just ignore that and fill out the application, you will need your ABN number handy to quote, when filling out the application. You also need to have your own domain name, so you can setup your system for your company.

If you have been keen and setup a Business Account and you installed Postini, uninstall it before applying because postini is not supported in the Non Profit package and they will tell you to uninstall it. A Business Google Apps account costs $50us per person and the Non Profit package is free for up to 3,000 accounts.

If you are having trouble doing all of this you are welcome to contact us and we will help you through the process. There is no charge to any Non Profit Charity company willing to learn how to run their own business online. Google Adwords for Non Profits and Google Apps are free accounts, no strings attached.

Update:

I have just received an update for Non Profits in Australia. here is the extract from the e-mail I received from Google:

Though we have reached out to some Australian organisations as a pilot, we haven’t rolled out the availability of Education Edition to non-profits outside of the US. We are hoping to do so in the future, but need to overcome some obstacles to achieve this.

Lets hope the outcome will be soon, and there is nothing stopping you from using the free online Google tools while you wait.

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