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What is an Autoresponder Page?

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A place where you can set up some information that visitors can receive automatically via email if they give you their email address. This can be a good way to get a database of people interested in your site, so you can email them later with your promotional material.

Recommended Uses

• Good for sending instructions.
• Can be used to collect a database of emails you can send promotional material to later.

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Overview

1. Adding an Autoresponder Page
2. Editing the Header and Footer
3. Adding and Editing your Autoresponder Email
4. Creating a Series of Autoresponder Emails
5. Receiving the Autoresponder Email
6. Viewing and Deleting Your Autoresponder Email List
7. Exporting Your Autoresponder Email List
8. Editing Your Title Tag, Meta Tag and Header Info
9. Adding a Friendly URL

1. Adding an Autoresponder Page

1. Click on "Add Page" from your toolbar
2. Choose layout "Autoresponder."

3. Enter a page name for your new page.
4. Click on the "Add Page" button.

2. Editing the Header and Footer

1. Go to your Autoresponder page.
2. To edit the header and footer of your page, click the "Edit Page" button form the toolbar.
3. Add your text to your header and footer then click on the "Save" button.

3. Adding and Editing your Autoresponder Email

1. Go to your Autoresponder page.
2. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
3. Click on the "Auto-Response Email" tab.

4. Add your info and then click on the "Save" button.

If you wish to create a series of autoresponder emails that are sent out in succession, see below.

4. Creating a Series of Autoresponder Emails

You have the option to create a series of autoresponder emails. For example:

1. Email 1 is sent out immediately.
2. Email 2 is sent out 1 day later.
3. Email 3 is sent out 3 days later.

Note that you can only have 1 email at most sent out per day.

First, set up your initial email by following the directions at Adding and Editing your Autoresponder Email To add your subsequent emails:

1. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
2. Click on the "Auto-Response Email" tab.
3. Click on "Add follow-up autoresponder message."

2. Fill out your subject and message for the email. Also, fill in what day you would like the email to be sent. If you inputted 3 days and a person signed up on a Monday, they would get your 2nd email on Thursday. Click on the "Save" button when you're done.

IMPORTANT: When adding subsequent emails, you must ensure that your emails are in order with the ones going out first at the top and the ones going out last at the bottom.

5. Receiving the Autoresponder Email

To sign up to receive the autoresponder email, your visitors just need to type in their email address in the text box provided and check off the box below to agree to the Privacy Policy. Then, click on the "Email Me" button. You can edit the Privacy Policy by clicking on the "Tools" button from your toolbar and then click on "Privacy Policy." Note that the check box for the Privacy Policy is required to stay in compliance with US and Canadian government regulations.

6. Viewing and Deleting Your Autoresponder Subscribers

Viewing Your Emails

1. Go to your Autoresponder page.
2. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
3. Click on the "Subscribers" tab.

You will then see a list of emails (each is clickable if you would like to email them) and the date the subscriber signed up.

Deleting Your Subscribers

Follow the viewing instructions above. Then checkmark the email(s) you wish to delete and click on "Delete Selected."

If you have a series of emails, once you delete a subscriber, they no longer receive any leftover emails in your series.

7. Exporting Your Autoreponder Email List

1. Go to your Autoresponder page.
2. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
3. Click on the "Export Subscribers" tab.

You will then see a list of emails that you can copy and paste in bulk.

You can copy and paste this list into an email or database.

8. Editing Your Title Tag, Meta Tag and Header Info

The title tag and meta tags you add to your site can help you with your search engine listing. Below is an explanation of what they are used for and how to enter them in. Additionally, for advanced members, we have included access to the <head></head> section.

Title Tag

The info in your title tag is often used by search engines as the text to link to your page.

Each page has its own title tag info. Some search engines may also look at your title tag for keywords that will bring up your site on their listings. Your title tag info also appears at the top left of your browser window.

To edit your title tag info on your page:

1. Click on "Edit Page" and then click on the "Internet Marketing" tab.

2. Under "HTML Title Tag," enter in your title.

3. Then, click on the "Save" button.

Note that if no title tag is entered, your title tag info is filled in with whatever page title you enter.

Meta Keywords and Meta Description

Meta tags (i.e. meta keyword tags and meta description tags) are sometimes used by search engines to help decide where to rank your web site. Each search engine has its own set of criteria and may change it from time to time. Usually the meta tags are inserted in the heading section of your html code. Within the tags, you would put a description of your site for the meta description and some keywords for the meta keywords.

We have two methods of adding in your meta tags. The first method adds the same meta tags to all your pages. The second method allows you to have individual meta tags for each page. The second method will override the first method for any page you add individual meta tags. For info on the first method, please go to Marketing Your Site: Meta Keywords and Meta Description

The second method is controlled right on your page.

1. Click on "Edit Page."
2. Click on the "Internet Marketing" tab.

3. In the space provided, type in your keywords (separate each keyword or keyword phrase by a comma) and your description. Please note that there is maximum character limit of 500.

4. Lastly, click on the "Save" button at the bottom.

Head Access

For advanced users, you can enter code designed for the head area of your source code. To do this:

1. Click on "Edit Page."
2. Click on the "Internet Marketing" tab.

3. In the box under "<head> </head> tag," enter in your code and click on "Save."

Please note that you should not enter in your meta keywords or meta description code here and leave the designated boxes we give you blank. When this is done, you end up with something like this in the code:

<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="cars,import cars,car detailing,car parts,honda,toyota,ferrari">
<meta name="description" content="The best source for import car information including tips on car details.">

Many search engines will only view the two blank meta codes.

8. Adding a Friendly URL

You have the option to customize your web address extension.
For example instead of the
www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/page/page/12345.html format you could have www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html To set this up, under "Add a Friendly URL," enter in the extension you would like. For example, if you enter index, the result is
www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html.

• It makes your web page more search engine friendly and should result in a higher ranking.
• It makes it easier to give your customers a web address for any page on your site.
• It mirrors the structure for web page names on big corporate sites.

1. Go to the page you want to change the extension of and click on "Edit Page."
2. Under "Add a Friendly URL" enter in the extension you would like. For example, if you enter index, the result is
   www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html

3. Save your page.

Notes:

• If you have your own domain name (e.g. YOURDOMAIN.com),
  your address will show as
  www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html or
  www YOURDOMAIN.com/index.html
• Only letters, numbers and underscores allowed. Sorry, no numbers on their own (e.g. 9876) or underscores on their own.
• Once you change to a customized extension, you cannot change it back to the page/page/12345.htm format.
• If sites/search engines/directories/etc. have linked to your old page/page/12345.htm formatted pages, these links will forward to the new address. If you are listed on search engines/directories, note that they usually update their listings periodically. When they get to your link, they will delist your page/page/12345.htm formatted pages and in most cases will re-list the page with the new web address. Each search engine/directory has its own rules so there is no guarantee these pages will be re-listed. You may have to resubmit.

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