Adding a shopping cart for non profits is easy to do with Volusion, unfortunately they will charge you some set-up costs. The software package is very easy to build and and maintain. You will need to set up a few other things like anti fraud and online banking. You will need a non profit account for merchant banking established.  They have a number of templates to choose fro for free and they are an established shopping cart supplier in Australia.

Drop me a line if you want more information on setting up your non profit company in Australia.

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As the title says, WordPress for non profits charities in Australia. Most companies worry about not having easy access to a website or blog that they have spent good money on and they can’t get access to it because the webmaster is not available to give them time to set up changes for them.

In just a short space of time I can set up a WordPress blog site for any non profit charity and show them how easy it is to build pages and posts with it. Don’t bother to contact me if you have absolutely no time to learn just the simple basics for being able to write those all important news articles or reports that you want on the Internet.

The cost, it just a little bit of your time to learn how to look after your own blog site. I wont charge any non profit charity a single cent to set up and then be in the background if you need help. The only exception to my rule is multi purpose centres in Australia, they are not non profit by they keep shoveling their money back into community projects, so I will make an exception for any branches that approach me.

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How to get your charity business noticed on the Internet is not a simple thing to do. If I had to tell somebody the one most important thing to get your non profit organisation noticed, then my answer would be content. The surfers on the Internet crave information and the more your website or blog site has, then the more valuable your site will be.

Over deliver the information and it will reward you. Put in a good description and make sure you have those all important keywords that relate to your charity business. I have seen far to many charities that have just the basic content and they could have given lots more information. The idea that people will know what you are all about is very bad. You need to put yourself in their shoes and see that somebody that has never heard of you and they will not have the basic information that you all ready have.

Charity companies can spend good money on setting up a site and because they are on a tight budget they all to often fail to put enough content into their website. So if you want to get noticed, tell people as much as you can about your Non Profit Charity. Seek out those valuable keywords and make sure your information is easy to find.

I have added links to help you register your business and other software down the right side of this blog site. You can also see more on this topic in my December blog posting.

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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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You want to build your Non Profit charity business up by building a website, and if you use Google Adwords keyword Tool, to help you do that all important research.To help find those needed keywords that matter for your website.

You can also use Google Trends to research the market trends for your particular interest. Both of these website online tools from Google are really good to use, when you are starting to build a web page.

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Build A Free Websites For Your Business

Free websites and what to do… Read more! Have you just been through a massive effort trying to build a website using site builder software, only to find that the way the pages are named does not get you very good ranking on the Internet. In the past I have been there and done that.

If you have a charity in Australia and you want help with getting online with good ranking on the Internet, Bounties of Nature can help you out for any free websites. You need to learn a few basic skills so that your online business will not only rank well on the Internet but will get visitors that you so badly need.

There are lots of websites that boast that they can get you high-ranking on the Internet and yet they don’t have any ranking to speak of for themselves. The proof is in the pudding as the old saying goes. try installing a add-on to Firefox that will give you some idea of what a website ranks when you load it up.

Alexa Sparky as an add-on will let you see at a glance where a website ranks on the Internet. You will be surprised as well as disappointed at your own ranking.

It takes time to get better ranking, Google will not put you high in the search engines until you have proved your worth to them, by adding lots of good content for your free websites business. Yahoo and Bing are even slower to index your pages. I am very pro Google I use all the software that is offered and help out in the Google’s Webmasters Forum.

Now what has all this got to do with Free website. If your charity has tried to build a website and you feel that the system has let you down then take heart and read on.

To get a true free website up and going on the Internet you need a few basic skills. Do you know how to upload a web page to your domain, do you know how to install a blog site, such as this one. Well this is what we are all about. We will happily teach you these skills for free. Companies become co-dependent on software that will wave a magic wand and it will all get better. Rubbish, there is only one real answer, get the skills that you need and build your own website.

Any Non Profit Charity that is keen to get these skills is welcome to contact us and we will become your support when you strike problems.

One of the problems of going to forums and asking for help is, they don’t want to keep answering the same old dumb questions over and over and get hostile towards you and any free websites you want to talk about. I have been on the receiving end of that kind of treatment. People learn in different ways, some can read articles, others prefer to watch videos and some prefer to ring somebody up and talk about it.

So if you want to get any free websites for your business and you are a charity in Australia then the answer is simple, get in touch with Bounties of Nature and we will launch you on a learning curb teaching you how to do it all for free. We do ask for your ABN registration details and no we only help Non Profit Charities that want to help themselves.

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It cannot be emphasized more strongly for those that are just starting out at building websites, what you put into your pages is of prime importance. You need to research the true meaning of the word keywords.

The best keywords for your website are the most important ones for your industry. Pick out 4 or 5 of the best ones you can find and write a page on these topics. You need to think of what people maybe thinking of, try to step back and think of what others are looking for. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is of extreme importance.

Make the text friendly to the user, don’t get bogged down in jargon that people have trouble understanding. If possible have something for free that your readers are in need of.

Look for keyword tools on the Internet, there are heaps of them around. Google Analytics is a very good idea to place their software into the bottom of each page. One of the best online tools is Google Adwords Tool, feed your keywords in and get results that are important to you.

Do a search for keyword clouds, keyword meta tags, keywords in titles. The topic of keywords is enormous and there is a massive amount written on the topic. Even naming your domain with good keywords is another topic in a class of it’s own.

Keywords is not the only factor in getting good ranking, read as much as you can in Googles Webmasters Forum and Googles Webmasters Blog. They both have great information on keywords. No I did not put those last two links pointing just at keywords. The whole of both of these websites have mountains on many different topics.

If you are new to keyword structuring try to think in terms of Domain Name, the URL for your web pages, the keyword description, the keyword meta tags and the keyword content. Don’t ever abuse the use of keywords, like repeating them over and over with no meaning, and putting them into pages with the same colour writing as the pages. These are what is known as black hat techniques and need to be avoided at all cost.

So these are the Keywords that matter for Non Profits and any other kind of website. So do your research and the more you write relevant topics with great keywords, the better you will index in the search engines.

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If you are thinking about building your first website and you belong to a charity company in Australia, well I have good news for you. It will only cost you the price of a domain name and that is it.

You don’t need to pay any web hosting fees, or buy any software. Don’t give those precious dollars away to spammers and scams. I can show you how to structure a simple website with a WordPress just like this one, all at no cost. I will never ask you for one single cent, so long as you are willing to learn, the support will always be free.

People that tell me they don’t have time to build a website, are really saying, they don’t have time to run their business. If you build a successful website, then you can find more volunteers and more customers for your business.

It is easy to put forms onto a website with Google Docs and no you don’t need to live in my neighborhood, so I can come over and end up doing all the work on your computer. You can link up to us via Google Talk and we can sort things out on a closed chat channel or via Gmail. It is not all that hard to do, so if you have registered charity drop me a line, so we can get you going.

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I cannot speak more highly of WordPress. Like they said on their front page, it is both free and priceless at the same time. It is easy to install and once you get use to the admin section, it is very easy to post articles on the Internet. Any Non Profit in Australia who is looking for ease of access to the Internet, cannot go past WordPress.

Most webhosting companies support the software for WordPress and once installed it is easy to maintain. You can get different themes (look and feel) for your new blog site and you can add different plugins as well.

Getting that all important message out there could not be easier anymore. If your hosting company uses Cpanels then you can install WordPress from a package called Fantastico or Simple Scripts. The web hosting company that we recommend is WebHost Australia. If you are a Non Profit you will find that they will sponsor your company for free. The only catch is you have to have a banner on the front page of your website. They do support WordPress and a lot of other software as well.

So for ease of access and easy to manage, you cannot go past WordPress. If you have any problems install WordPress, just drop us a line and we will help you out.

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If you are a Non Profit Charity company in Australia, you can apply for the Google Adwords Grant. This link is for Australia, there are different forms for different countries. Why because the laws for Charities are different in each country.

The Grant application for Australia, needs for you to have both your ABN and your DGR certificate, scanned so you can upload a copy of these to Google as proof as to your status. If you intend to apply, make sure you have a good understanding of keywords. Here is a UTube presentation. Adwords on UTube Article goes for about 27 mins. The Google Grant application takes about 6 months to process, so learn to be patient.

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If you are a Non Profit Company in Australia and you want to get your Non Profit Charity a new website and you need a hand to get started, then you have come to the right place. Building a website when you have little or non skills can be very daunting. So we are prepared to help any Non Profit Charity with on going support, free of charge, provided you are willing to put the time into it.

The basic tools that we recommend to get started are all free to download. PageBreeze comes highly recommended if you are looking for a basic HTML editor. It comes with all the basic bells and whistles that will get you started. The basic website attached to this blog site where used to create the intro pages.

You will need software to upload to upload those webpages and you can’t go past Filezilla, again freeware. If you like either of these programs then I suggest you back the owners and give them some money for their troubles.

Nothing within our website and blog site has any affiliation to any companies. Not a good idea if you want to apply for the Google Grant for Adwords. But that is another article all together.

Before you buy a domain name, do some research and try to workout what is the most appropriate domain name for your business. If you are not sure contact us and tell us a bit about your company. Then we can offer you a few ideas.

We don’t recommend any form of site builder software, we think in the long run you are better off starting out the correct way. Website construction will give you great looking pages that don’t do very much for attracting web traffic.

So if you download both the website editor and the ftp (File Transfer Protocol) software and install them this will get you ready to start building on the Internet.

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