How effective is your Web site? Free online tools help measure site success.Greenville County Schools, South Carolina's largest public school system with 79 schools and 65,000 students, is committed to regularly updating its online resources. And each year Superintendent Phinnize Fisher chooses top sites from among the district. This year, she named those of Mauldin and Heritage Elementary Schools Heritage Elementary is a public elementary school in Prince George, British Columbia part of School District 57 Prince George. , Hillcrest Middle School Hillcrest Middle School in Coquitlam, British Columbia is a middle school. It is located at 2161 Regan Avenue. As of 2006, the current school principal is Rob Zambrano, and the vice-principal isnot Sean Della Vedova.This school also has two bands. and Eastside High School Eastside High School or East Side High School can refer to:
While K-12 schools across the nation have Web sites, and countless education-related applications have been developed for students, staff, parents and the community, building effective Web sites is more than running online pages up virtual flagpoles. Even the best content is worthless if no one knows it exists, so promoting sites and measuring success are as important as development. But schools fail in this regard. Fortunately, there are free online tools you can use to bring these dimensions to your district. Tracking Stats At the simplest level, many schools have inserted counters on their home pages to monitor traffic coming to the site. For example, Greenville's Hillcrest Middle School uses Site Meter Site Meter is a service which provides counter and tracking information for Web sites. By logging IP addresses and using JavaScript or HTML to track visitor information, Site Meter provides Web site owners with information about their visitors, including how they reached the site, to track numbers of daily visitors, total page views, time online, entry and exit pages, and user locations that recently included Canada, China and India. Visit the Hillcrest home page through the district site and click on the Site Meter button to see sample data. Another valuable statistic is how your site ranks with other districts and with other Web pages, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the amount of traffic. For example, if you use Alexa to search on the term "school district," and click on "site info" buttons next to each site, you will see its traffic rank--lower means more active--and number of links. To illustrate, the Poway Unified School District Poway Unified School District is a school district located in Poway, California. The District operates 22 elementary schools (K-5), six middle schools (6-8), four comprehensive high schools (9-12), and one continuation high school. in California ranks less than 3,000 among sites on the Web, which is extremely busy, and receives links from some 400 other sites. Check the stats on your district by using Alexa to search on your Web address. But the most sophisticated data analysis tool by far is Google Analytics Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that a webmaster can optimize his/her AdWords advertisement and marketing campaigns through the use of GA's analysis of where the , which shows in great detail how visitors found your site and how they interact with it. The tool displays data in graphs, so you can see the changes over time, including daily page views, time spent online, and the numbers of new and returning visitors. Raising Ranks Search engines index and rank sites using robot programs called spiders and crawlers, and a variety of methods. These include noting the placement of keywords in titles and near the top of pages, and "metatag See meta tag. " content words supplied by developers. Search Engine Watch Search Engine Watch (SEW) is a website that provides news and information about search engines and search engine marketing. [1] Search Engine Watch was started by Danny Sullivan in 1996. will help you organize and submit your sites to engines so they rank as high as possible, and you should try sample searches to see how your district's sites fare. For example, since a major factor in ranking is how many other sites link to yours, it is always helpful to cross-link your pages with other school and community sites. You can see the links to your site through LinkPopularity, and by searching on the word link: followed by the address of your site (e.g. link: www.greenville.k12. sc.us). Online measurement tools can help you judge the success of your site, and make this your best online year ever. RESOURCES Greenville County Schools www.greenville.k12.sc.us Site Meter www.sitemeter.ccm Alexa www.alexa.com Google Analytics www.google.com/analytics Search Engine Watch searchenginewatch.com LinkPopularity.com www.linkpopularity.com Odvard Egil Dyrli, dyrli@uconn.edu, is senior editor and emeritus e·mer·i·tus adj. Retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement: a professor emeritus. n. pl. professor of education at the University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. . |
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