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20 June 2011

SEO Keywords for Small Non-Profits

Your non-profit website is supposed to help new people – prospective donors, members, and advocates – find your organization online. But what if it’s not showing up in the search engines? (read more)
Posted Monday, 20 June 2011 at 5:01 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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17 September 2010

Why SEO? A primer for association and non-profit web sites

This is a guest post by Keith Holloway. Keith is the founding partner of BetterMail.ca , an engagement campaign software company that operates a consulting division completely focused on search marketing and Wild Apricot is a (happy!) client of BetterMail.ca.... (read more)
Posted Friday, 17 September 2010 at 4:59 PM by Jay Moonah [Noisy Apricot] | 6 comments
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13 August 2010

Rich Media Search Tool for Your Website

Are you looking for a way to help your website visitors easily find relevant related information online? The folks over at ReadWriteWeb have just added a great new search feature to their site, courtesy of Apture.com . When you highlight any word,... (read more)
Posted Friday, 13 August 2010 at 2:12 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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06 August 2010

3 (more) Search Engine Writing Tips for Associations

Search engine optimization (or SEO for short) is, simply, the process of making it easier for people to find you in search engines such as Google. Associations can benefit greatly from doing a little SEO work on their website, since getting more traffic... (read more)
Posted Friday, 06 August 2010 at 12:59 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 0 comments
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17 May 2010

Better Search Tools for Twitter Backlinks

You already know the importance of listening for social media mentions of your nonprofit – monitoring with tools like Google Alerts that can let you know when your organization’s name comes up online. But what of those Twitter users who link to your website... (read more)
Posted Monday, 17 May 2010 at 2:28 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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29 April 2010

4 Ways to Search Flickr by Color

We’ve talked before about good tools that will search Flickr for Creative Commons-licensed images based on the keywords you choose. Now, check out another (more colorful) way to find the pictures you need for your blog or website... Just don't be surprised if your productivity drops - these color-based search tools are fun! (read more)
Posted Thursday, 29 April 2010 at 3:42 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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- Usability,
- Best practices,
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19 April 2010

How Fast is Your Website?

You’ve put a lot of effort into getting your nonprofit’s website to rank well in search engines, without the budget for an SEO expert to help. And now Google says your site needs to be fast, as well as “relevant”? (read more)
Posted Monday, 19 April 2010 at 4:39 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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16 April 2010

Monitor the Web in Real Time: Instant Dashboards

You've got bookmarks for websites you need to check daily, online tools, news alerts for tracking your nonprofit's keywords and issues, email, social networks, RSS feeds for favorite blogs… It's all too easy to miss vital information, or to waste a great deal of time checking for updates. Now imagine one custom site that lets you monitor all that data at a glance – a dashboard that's updated in real time. (read more)
Posted Friday, 16 April 2010 at 4:56 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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- Widgets,
- Social networking,
- RSS,
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- social media,
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- productivity
12 November 2009

Facebook Page Not Found in Facebook Search?

One of Wild Apricot's blog readers created a Facebook Page for his nonprofit organization, but the new Page doesn’t show up in the results for Facebook’s own Search tool. "Why is this?" he asks. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 12 November 2009 at 2:27 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 9 comments
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05 November 2009

Does Bing Know About Your Website?

Google may know all about your nonprofit’s website (and your blog, and whatever social media profiles you’ve staked out on the Web), but that doesn’t guarantee that Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, will automatically index your site as well. (read more)
Posted Thursday, 05 November 2009 at 3:42 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 8 comments
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24 October 2009

How to Find (and Map) Local People on Twitter

In June 2009, Nielsen reported nearly 21 million unique visitors to Twitter.com. How can a small nonprofit organization, with limited time and resources for social media, find the right people to connect with in that microblogging crowd? Try your TPS... (read more)
Posted Saturday, 24 October 2009 at 11:11 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 3 comments
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26 August 2009

Topic-Based RSS Search LazyFeed Opens to the Public

LazyFeed is a new RSS feed engine based on topics, not sources or individuals, that offers a new way to find information online blogs, news services, podcasts, social media updates, and so on — content from any site that publishes an RSS feed. The... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 9:36 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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28 July 2009

How to Find Local People on Twitter

It’s great to interact with others around the world in social networks — to learn what other organizations are doing, and to reap fresh ideas for your own nonprofit — but what a many small nonprofit often needs most is to connect with potential volunteers and supporters in your own community. Here are a few tools to help you find local Twitter users. (read more)
Posted Tuesday, 28 July 2009 at 4:03 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 1 comments
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23 July 2009

Do Hashtags Help a Twitter Topic Search?

In a recent comment on An Introduction to Twitter Hashtags , Wild Apricot reader 88keyman came through with a really great question: Suppose I’m writing on a topic concerning Iran. If I include the hashtag #Iran, how does that differ from merely using... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 23 July 2009 at 12:57 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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16 July 2009

Yahoo Search Pad for Automatic Notes

If Yahoo Search is your search engine of choice, you may have noticed a new feature recently. Yahoo Search Pad kicks in automatically when the engine detects a pattern of search that suggests you're researching a specific topic, and unobtrusively tracks... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 16 July 2009 at 6:25 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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