3. From the Billing Cycle drop down menu, select the billing cycle you want. If you want to purchase any of the add-ons, place a checkmark in the boxes. Please note that all prices shown are monthly prices unless otherwise noted. When you are done click on the “Add to Cart” button.
4. Ensure your order is correct. If not, click on the “Start Over” button to begin the process again. If your order looks fine, click on the “Checkout” button.
5. Enter your information including payment information. [Note: If your credit card gets denied several times, your credit card company may be blocking it to protect you. Use PayPal as an alternative if you want the order to go through as soon as possible. When you are done, complete the order. You will then receive instructions in your email on what to do next.
Follow the steps below to transfer your domain and sign up for hosting.
1. Go to the website where you registered your domain. You will need to obtain your domain’s EPP or Authorization Code (this is a security measure, similar to a password that only the domain owner would be able to know). You will also need to ‘unlock’ the domain so it can be transferred. If you are not sure how to do this, you can e-mail your registrar and request that they do it for you. This video tutorial shows you how to do it using GoDaddy as an example.
4. It should say your domain is available to purchase, you should see it with a checkmark beside it and the status saying ” Available! Order Now”. Select the “Click to Continue” button.
5. From the Billing Cycle drop down menu, select the billing cycle you want. If you want to purchase any of the add-ons, place a checkmark in the boxes. Please note that all prices shown are monthly prices unless otherwise noted. When you are done click on the “Add to Cart” button.
6. Here is where you will need to enter your EPP or Authorization code that was mentioned in step 1. If you want ID Protection, check the box next to $10.00 USD. ID Protection protects the identity of the person registering the domain. When domains are registered, the personal information of the person registering can be accessed by the public. If you wish to hide your personal information, then order the ID Protection. When you are done, click on the “Update Cart” button.
7. Ensure your order is correct. If not, click on the “Start Over” button to begin the process again. If your order looks fine, click on the “Checkout” button.
8. Enter your information including payment information. [Note: If your credit card gets denied several times, your credit card company may be blocking it to protect you. Use PayPal as an alternative if you want the order to go through as soon as possible. When you are done, complete the order. You will then receive instructions in your email on what to do next.
If you already own a domain name, you have two options to choose from. Click on the link to get instructions for the option you want to choose. If you are not sure what these options mean, information regarding them is posted below these two links.
The first option, transferring your domain, allows you to take your domain from your current registrar and have it housed with RAGE Web Hosting. This means you will do all domain renewals through RAGE and not your old registrar. The pros to doing it this way are that you only need to deal with one company. In addition, any future issues regarding domain and hosting can be handled easily when both the domain and the hosting are with RAGE. There is only one extra step involved with transferring so it is not a difficult process.
The second option, keeping the domain where it currently is, allows you to not move the domain, but still have your website hosted with RAGE. A bit less is involved with this process, but this will leave you with having your domain and your hosting at two separate companies. In some cases, some users will need to use this option (depending on the domains extension).
2. With the first option selected () type in the domain that you wish to register and select the extension from the drop down menu. [Note: If you do not see the extension that you want in the list, you will need to email us.] When you are done click on the “Click To Continue” button.
3. If your domain is available to purchase, you should see it with a checkmark beside it and the status reading “Available! Order Now”. You can order more domains if you want, otherwise, select the “Click to Continue” button.
4. From the Billing Cycle drop down menu, select the billing cycle you want. If you want to purchase any of the add-ons, place a checkmark in the boxes. Please note that all prices shown are monthly prices unless otherwise noted. When you are done click on the “Add to Cart” button.
5. If you want ID Protection, check the box next to $10.00 USD. ID Protection protects the identity of the person registering the domain. When domains are registered, the personal information of the person registering can be accessed by the public. If you wish to hide your personal information, then order the ID Protection. When you are done, click on the “Update Cart” button.
6. Ensure your order is correct. If not, click on the “Start Over” button to begin the process again. If your order looks fine, click on the “Checkout” button.
7. Enter your information including payment information. [Note: If your credit card gets denied several times, your credit card company may be blocking it to protect you. Use PayPal as an alternative if you want the order to go through as soon as possible. When you are done, complete the order. You will then receive instructions in your email on what to do next.
After you have made your optimizations in SEIntelligence, you may eventually go back to your website to make an update. Follow the instructions in this video tutorial to learn how to properly re-load your website back into SEIntelligence without losing the work that you previously did. The previous work I am referring to is the optimizations you made in SEIntelligence the last time you clicked the Apply or Apply All button.
Video Transcript:
When you decide you need to make an update to your website, you will need to save that website and load it in SEIntelligence once again, in order to re-apply the optimizations you previously made.
Here I have my site in iWeb that I have just made some updates to. Now, I’m going to publish the site to a local folder again. It’s important to know that I am publishing the site to the exact same location on my hard drive as it was when I originally loaded it into SEIntelligence. That location was my desktop, and I did not delete that folder off my desktop either. I have also kept the Site Name the exact same. All of this is very important if you want to ensure that your tags are not erased.
I’ll just repeat that for emphasis. Do not delete the website folder from your hard drive. Publish any changes made in iWeb back to that exact same folder. Do not change the Site Name, or the name of this folder. The site name and the folder name will have the exact same name.
After you have published the site back to the same folder, you can now open it in SEIntelligence. To do so, click on the corresponding existing profile for that website. When you do, you should see a popup window like this appear. This will indicate to you which pages on your site have been modified. All the pages will be select, and clicking the Apply Saved Tags will re-apply the optimizations that you made that last time in SEIntelligence.
Now, you can either make any changes you would like, or publish your site back to your FTP server.
Remember to do this each and every time you update your site in iWeb.
If you are making your optimizations from within SEIntelligence, this video tutorial will quickly show you how to apply those changes, and publish your website.
Video Transcript:
So now we’ve made all of the changes to our site. Our next step is to apply these changes if you haven’t’ already. Simply click on the Apply All button and all of your web pages will be updated.
Now that all the changes have been applied, it is time to publish the site. Click on the Publish button in the top right corner, and enter in your FTP details. If you are not sure what these details are, you can e-mail your web host to find out. It is very important that you know your Directory Path otherwise you will not see your changes applied to your site. After you input your server address, username, and password, it is a good idea to press the Browse button just to make sure you have everything entered correctly. You can also Browse to select the correct Directory Path. When you have everything inputted correctly, I highly recommend creating a profile for this information. You can do this by clicking the Plus sign and entering a name for your profile or account.
When you’re ready, click on the Upload button to begin publishing your site.
The video below will show you how you can incorporate an image map on your WordPress website. Image maps allow your websites users to click on different areas of your image and be taken to different links. Image maps are extremely easy to create when using MapDesign.
Video Transcript:
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how you can add an image map to a website in WordPress, using MapDesign.
Before I begin I want to mention that there is one tricky part that will require the user to do a bit of trial and error. The image that you want to use to create your image map will need to fit into the body of your posts or pages. Basically you want to make it so that your image is the same size or less than the width of the body where your posts or pages go. This might require you to make a mistake or two along the way and go back and correct it. So I will leave that part up to you and continue along with the tutorial.
So here I have my image ready on my desktop. I am going to drag it onto MapDesign. Then I will create my hot spots by selecting the Rectangle, Circles, or Polygon tools.
Next, I will link these hotspots by clicking on Edit, and typing in the URL on the Behavior tab.
When I am done creating my hot spots, I will click on the Export To Web Site button to export the image map. You will notice I have select Simple Image Map. I encourage all of you to do the same to ensure that our image maps will work properly on our WordPress sites.
I will leave the format as JPEG and the Quality as High. I will click the next button, and save export the image map to my desktop.
On my desktop, I will now have an index.html file and an images folder, which will contain my image map.
Open up the index.html file in your favourite HTML editor. Make sure you are not opening it a web browser. I am opening mine up in our HTML editor called WebDesign.
Highlight all of the code with the opening Body and Closing body tags just like I have done. Then copy this code.
Now go to your WordPress dashboard, and either add a new post, or add a new page, whichever your prefer. Make sure you are on the HTML tab and paste the code that you just copied.
Now I will open a new tab or a new window in your web browser and go to imageshack.us. You can choose to host the image on your own server, but for the purpose of this video, I am going to host it on imageshack. The choice is up to you, but it will be easier for you to follow along if you also host it on imageshack.
Click on the browse button, and locate the image map which is inside of the images folder. Highlight it and click Open. Then click on the Upload Now button on image shack.
Highlight the URL in the Link field, copy it, and paste it in your web browser. Then do a secondary click on your image, and select Copy Image Address, or copy image location. Now go back to your post in your WordPress dashboard.
At the bottom of the code that we copied and pasted, you should see a location for your image which reads images/rage_css_imagemap.jpg. Highlight that part of the code, and paste the URL that we have just copied. Make sure your URL has quotation marks around it like mine does.
Quickly click on the visual tab to confirm that everything has worked. If you are able to see your image, then you have done everything correctly and you can publish your post or page.
The Site Settings section of SEIntellgence has some very cool features that most webmaster might never think to utilize. Watch the tutorial below to learn about the Site Settings section and how to properly use the features.
Video Transcript:
On the Site Settings tab in SEIntelligence, the first tab is for our domain. If your website’s domain is not already there, then type it in. Most of yours should already be there.
Setting your preferred domain tells search engines if you prefer to use the www version of your website or the non-www version of your website. The reason this is significant is because other sites may link to your site using the www or without the www. Search engines will classify these as two separate websites if no preferred domain is specified. Specifying your preferred domain will indicate to search engines to list your website with the www or without the www in search results. The choice is yours, however, we do recommend at least choosing one of these two options.
SEIntelligence also gives you the option to forward a not found page to a different page. This means that if someone types in one of your web page URLs incorrectly, or if one of your pages no longer exists, it will forward the user to the page of your choice, rather than showing them a Page Not Found webpage. Simply check the box to forward the page, and select the page of your choice in the drop down menu.
You can also upload a favicon. Favicons are these tiny little images that appear beside URLs in the address bar. Simply click on Select Image For Favicon and select the image you want to use.
On the robots tab, here is where you would indicate to search engines which pages on your site you don’t want to be indexed. So for example, if I had a private page on my website called users.html, I would press this Plus button and type in that page. Most of you will be able to just leave this tab blank, but if you do wish to block one of your pages, this is how you can easily do so.
If your website has a Sitemap, or multiple Sitemaps, you can specify the location of your Sitemap here. If you do not have a Sitemap, or you are not sure what a Sitemap is, I encourage you to take a look at our page for Sitemap Automator which will help you to easily create and publish an XML Sitemap.
On the header and footer code tab, here is where you will put items such as Google Analytics codes, and statcounter.com codes. Another video will show you how to obtain and add both of these codes, and where to place each of them.
When you are done with the Site Settings section, don’t forget to click the Update button to ensure your changes are saved.
Your website content is so important for making a well rounded search engine optimized website. Watch the tutorial below to learn how to use the ‘Content’ tab on SEIntellgience.
Video Transcript:
Website content is an extremely important aspect for making a well rounded search engine friendly website. Without content, a website stands little chance of ranking high in search results.
On the content tab, you’ll be able to see the code for your page. If you don’t like looking at code or don’t know how to read it, then don’t worry about it. Just look at the suggestions below.
Read the recommendations and make the applicable changes to your site. Please note that these changes are not made here in SEIntelligence, but rather in your website builder or HTML editor.
Just a quick note for users who are using drag and drop editors such as iWeb, or web based builders such as WordPress. Some of the recommendations you will not be doing. For example. this recommendation states to add an address tag to each page. You would not do this recommendation as your website builder does not allow for it.
SEIntelligence also makes it incredibly easy to add alternative text, or alt text, to your website images. Watch the following video to learn more about alt text, and how you can easily implement it on your website through SEIntelligence.
Video Transcript:
A picture may say a thousand words, but to search engines it doesn’t say much. Because of this, and a few other reasons, the alt attribute exists. On the Images tab, you will see the Alt Text and Image columns. Under the image column, you will see the file name of your images. If you click on each of them, you should be able to see previews for your images.
So why do we create alt text. As stated earlier, search engines are not really able to see an image the same way a human is able to. For search engines, the alt text can be a helpful way to understand what an image is. The alt text is also helpful when an image does not show up in a browser. This might happen when the image doesn’t load properly, or the user is using a non-visual web browser. In it’s place, the alt text will typically appear.
To add, or change your alt text, click in the alt text area and type your alt text. Your alt text is almost like a brief sentence, or a few words describing your image. Avoid using one word descriptions, but also avoid writing excessively long sentences.
Be brief, and to the point, while trying to include high quality key-terms that users would actually search.
For example, this image shows a set of men’s left handed golf clubs. This is exactly what I will type in. It contains good keywords, and describes the image perfectly. It wouldn’t be enough if I typed in golf clubs as that doesn’t really describe the photo well. It would be too much if I typed in left handed golf clubs that are nice and shiny and super expensive to buy.
When you type your alt text, it can be exactly like you see here. Almost like you are writing a sentence. No hyphens or commas are needed to separate the words.
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