Website Tutorial - Additional Information/Applications.

Aditional information and applications to add to your published site.

This information is for published sites as most of the applications are only applicable to verified online sites.

Once your site is published we recommend that you sign up for Google Analytics, Google webmasters and Google AdSense accounts. These accounts are free and will give you some very good tools and applications for maintaining your site as well as a good income.

See the resources videos explained by Matt Cutts.

Google will give you a code snippet that you have to add to your sites source code, they will give you very easy to follow instructions on how implement this application. Once Google sees the code your site will be set to be "Verified"
Once your site is verified you can get another bit of code to add to every page on your site. This code will track all the visitors to your site, where they came from, who referred them, how long they stayed, how many pages they visited, what links they clicked on and what keywords they used in the search engine that brought them to your site. You can see all these results when you sign in to your Google analytics account.

In the Google webmaster account you can see at a glance the pages that can not be found due to broken links, the speed of your site etc. Also suggestions on how to correct these errors. Give you information on how to create a sitemap and upload it to your site so that it can be crawled by the search engine spiders.
They will also tell you what Robots text to load to your site.

At Google AdSense if your site is verified and gets approved you will get another snippet of code to add to your websites source code. This will enable your site to show advertisements from all around the world. Google gets paid to place these adds and shares the revenue with you for the ads that were viewed/clicked on your site. 

Yes all these accounts take time to set up but they will save you a lot of time on your site maintenance in the long run and give you the oportunity to share in some of Google's revenue as well.

Read and adhere to Googles rules and guidelines carefully - don't rush this part it is important!

This is the end of this beginners web building tutorial. At the outset In Our Goals Page I stated:

" We are going to build this site using html and tables, rather than xhtml and css. This is an outdated method but I believe will give you a clear understanding on how things work. It will be a very easy transition for you to build any type of site using any methods once you understand these basics. Just reading this tutorial will not achieve our goals. You must take action and put the lessons into practice. Only by taking an active role and following this tutorial step by step will you end up with a useable website."

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