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Permalink Reply by Online Shopping Mall on February 11, 2010 at 7:43am

Thanks for the tips Jen...I'm looking for ways to get more shoppers to my site--and will try some of your suggestions--I have been getting alot of traffic from goggle. One of the things I was wondering if there is a way to collaborate with Ning to help with promoting your Ning networks? Do you have any tips on that? Is that even possible?

Have a great day,
Maureen

Permalink Reply by Temple of Our Lady of the Moon on February 11, 2010 at 7:48am

LOL I'm not Jen! I dont know if you can collaborate with Ning about promoting your networks though. Promotion is up to the site creator. Ning does have a few groups to help support its nc creators.

Permalink Reply by JenSocial on February 11, 2010 at 2:51pm

Hi Maureen,
Yeah, a very good tip, but I didn't add that one. Temple of Our Lady of the Moon did. ;-)

No, not Ning.com. The only thing you can hope for with Ning is for them to feature your site in their blog. I work with them as a volunteer Guide on Creators and promote Ning around the clock. They have never featured this site, although I would adore it, if they would someday. ;-)

I would suggest this: send in a request via the Support Desk that you would love for them to feature your site on their blog. You never know. :-)

Permalink Reply by Online Shopping Mall on February 11, 2010 at 4:17pm

Sorry I messed that up...thank you Temple of oUr Lady of the Moon. I'm surprised Jen that they haven't featured you...anyway I'll do what you suggest and see what kind of response I get...they did feature me a while back but the site has grwon so much since then that I thought it would be great to have us featured on their blog again....thanks again Ladies!

Permalink Reply by Temple of Our Lady of the Moon on February 11, 2010 at 4:28pm

I second that motion that Jen's site here should get featured...its all about Ning aint it? ha ha

Permalink Reply by JenSocial on February 11, 2010 at 2:52pm

Hi Temple of Our Lady of the Moon,
Yes, of course! I would love it if you'd post it as a tip! Nice Tips, thank you!
http://theningdirectory.ning.com/group/ningnetworktips
Best,
Jen

Permalink Reply by Temple of Our Lady of the Moon on February 11, 2010 at 4:05pm

You got it Jen! Blessed Be.

Permalink Reply by Kokoplelli Page on February 16, 2010 at 7:24am

You mentioned adding your url to google but when I do this, it cannot verify the website..I also tried to use the ccs code they asked to copy and paste into the website and this did not help either..What am I doing wrong?? My site is in the ning directory but is not showing up on Google..Waht is happening??

I have a hit counter and it is continually moving up, but for nothing..

My site is www.kokopellipage.ning.com
If you want to check it..

Erich Graywolf

Permalink Reply by Temple of Our Lady of the Moon on February 16, 2010 at 7:42am

If I remember correctly that has to do with your robots.txt file. Which when edited will allow search engines to crawl your site. When we first start our networks the file it set to not allow web crawlers. I dont remember how to edit it but your finished txt file should look something like user-agent:* which will allow the search engines to crawl your site and verify your url. Manage-Advanced- Robots.txt once you do that THEN you can go to google webmaster tools and get the code which will be a string of numbers and copy and paste it into the skinny box at the bottom of the webmaster tools bar on your site. Any webcrawler codes go in the Analytics box on your site which can be found manage-analytics. Hope this helps.

Also check out this site for more information. http://www.google.com/webmasters/checklist/

Permalink Reply by Kokoplelli Page on February 16, 2010 at 8:22am

I tried all of that..I see nowhere to put the code in the settings..No skinny box..nothing..I also looked at the CSS code its self and there is no "user-agent" or anything..hmmmm..I must be missing something here..Can you come over and show me..???? LOL

I have alot to learn about this...

Erich

Permalink Reply by Temple of Our Lady of the Moon on February 16, 2010 at 9:33am

I wish I could! Ok one thing at a time Erich....I'll try to help as best I can...Google Add Url-

Step 1: Add your Ning Network

In a separate browser window, sign into Google Webmaster Tools and click on the button that says "Add a site." In the form, enter the address of your Ning Network:

Step 2: Select a verification method

On the next page, you'll see a dropdown next to "Verification method." Select the "HTML file" option.

Step 3: Copy the name of the file that Google generates.

It will look something like:

google3ea8999e560a6e67.html

On the bottom of that page you will see a box..its long and skinny paste the number google gives you into the box...the reason why it wont verify is because you have to fix the Robots.txt file first! Go go manage-advanced-robots.text....take out whats there and put in user-agent:*

Its not as hard as you think it is!