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When I first started the British Ex website, I used my own Telus webspace http://www3.telus.net/kgcam/BX/. I wanted to make the site location easier to remember so I purchased the domain name britishex.ca from an internet domain provider. The fee was about $10 a year. For this price you get the name and some storage space for your webpage files.
I didn't realize that the domain provider would add their advertising to each of the files kept on their server, unless a more expensive service was purchased. To work around this, the opening page of the britishex.ca website contains a frame that displays the contents of my Telus BX website. So even though the location bar(1) displays http://britishex.ca/ the page displayed is really from my Telus site. I noticed that people were having a hard time finding the britishex.ca site, because they tended to look up the site through Google rather than typing the web address directly into the |
location bar(1). So I began trying to get Google to list our site. I opened a Google account, and started learning how Google locates the sites they link to.
They have a number of tools that help them verify the site and determine it's contents. These tools don't work well with the britishex.ca site, due to the way our domain provider adds advertising to each page. So I then began working to get my Telus site listed with Google. This has now been accomplished. When you search Google for "British Ex-Servicemen's Association" it returns the result shown above. As far as viewing the British Ex-Servicemen's website there is absolutely no difference between viewing the site as britishex.ca or as http://www3.telus.net/kgcam/BX/. To make returning to the site easier I would recommend bookmarking it (Netscape) or adding it to your favourites (Internet Explorer). |
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location bar(1): For more information about location bars go to Wikipedia. To see the Google listing click here. | |