In early 2005, after a year-long hiatus, the De Anza faculty websites became searchable on Google again, and therefore at the De Anza home page.
As a result we have the opportunity to use our faculty websites to increase enrollment and add to the prestige of De Anza.
PLUS it is now possible to include a note in the online schedule of classes directing students to your website for extra information.
An actual clickable link can be created.
Student retention is likely to be improved if students know more about a class before they enroll.
Further elucidation:
Potential students who search at the De Anza home page for the subject of one of your pages will now find that page.
Anyone who searches at Google for info on a subject we teach and write about at our websites can eventually find us.
For example, if you search at Google for lifeguard training my website page about lifeguard training shows up, usually on one of the first listings. People searching for the cost of a lifeguard certification will find I list all the local prices, because the De Anza class is always a lower cost for more certifications. In the process of listing local prices I also listed names of cities, therefore searches for lifeguard training classes in specific local cities bring people to my site.
The world is coming to our door. I have seen searches/hits from over 60 foreign-country Google search engines. (Hits are visitors from a search engine or other referral, some of whom might not have actually read much once they got to your site and realized it was not what they needed, some of whom might have stayed around and read many of your pages.)
Most are from Canada, the UK and Australia. There are often some from India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Germany. The foreign country codes used at Google are at the bottom of this page.
Other websites are linking to us.
Instructors at a Texas College and an eastern secondary school linked to History of swimming section as homework for their students.
CSU Stanislaus linked to Oxygen administration quick facts for a math project.
An online traffic school linked to a Outdoor Club page on driving in bad weather.
An English As A Second Language school in Paris, France linked to swimming vocabulary as a homework assignment.
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To see an example of a note in the online schedule of classes sending students to a faculty website, go to the De Anza schedule of classes at:
http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/schedule/ click on fall, winter or spring quarter and follow through to the complete listing for either HLTH 57A or HLTH 57E.
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Now that we are more visible, it’s time to do a little housekeeping. For many faculty it would only take a half hour to update your site. Erase that note you made to “add some text here.” Change references from specific quarters/years to more general ones so you don’t have to update everything as often.
If you have more time, whatdaya know good? What subject in your classes do you have brilliant ideas about that are not substantial enough to publish in book form, but could be published at your website?
If you have more time, save a tree in your lifetime. Teach from your site. Online homework assignments can save De Anza printing money and can have lavish numbers of color photos. Here are some examples from my site:
backboarding mistakes quiz 1 page one
Should lifeguards wear cowboy boots?
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More for Manilla websites:
Your referers page at Manilla sites lists the referrals in the last 24 hours from whatever source: a search engine, or someone who has linked to your site, for example.
To find your referers page, when you are logged in as an editor, add the words:
/stats/referers
to the end of your homepage URL.
Example:
http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/donahuemary/stats/referers
Here are some possibilities you might find at your referers page:
http://gsearch.fhda.edu/search?site=Main_Crawl
or
http://gsearch.fhda.edu/search?q
is a search at the De Anza home page that led someone to one of your pages
http://faculty.deanza.edu/?letter (and the first letter of your last name)
is a search someone made at the De Anza faculty websites list for your name
http://frontier.userland.com/xmlAggregator
This was explained to me as: someone has subscribed to a service that regularly looks at your website and tells them every time you have added a page or otherwise changed your site.
http://images.search.yahoo.com
is the result of someone’s search for a photo that led them to click on one of yours.
http://classic.webmail.aol.com/msgview.adp?
http://mail.charter.net/agent/mobmain?msgvw=INB
http://d04.webmail.aol.com/message.aspx?user=8Q
http://by102fd.bay102.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/
gmail.google.com/gmail?auth=
http://us.f537.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Msg
http://us.f802.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Msg
http://us.f517.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Msg
http://us.f412.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Sea
http://us.f302.mail.yahoo.com/ym/us/ShowLetter?
http://us.f147.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Msg
shows that someone (you?) emailed a link to your page and the recipient actually clicked on the link
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If you put your mouse cursor on the referral it will often spell out the whole referral subject, and most of the time you can click on the referral and go to the search they made.
There you will see where your page on that subject ranks at that search engine, and you might find other pages worth checking out.
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To see how many total hits each of your top 50 pages have had, add the words:
/stats/mostReadMessages to your home page URL
Example:
http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/donahuemary/stats/mostReadMessages
If you find yourself short on time to update your site regularly, this will tell you which pages are the most read and could be the most important to keep up-to-date.
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To see how many hits your pages are having by the hour for the last 24 hours, add the words:
/stats/hourlyHits to your home page URL.
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These are, as far as I can tell, the Google country code abbreviations.
As in, www.google.co.uk is Britain,
google.ca
is Canada,
google.com.au is Australia,
the three I find the most hits from at my referers page.
Those below in bold are countries I have noticed hits from.
AD – Andorra
AE – United Arab Emirates
AF – Afghanistan
AG – Antigua and Barbuda
AI – Anguilla
AM – Armenia
AN – Netherlands Antilles
AO – Angola
AQ – Antarctica
AR – Argentina
AS – American Samoa
AT – Austria
AU – Australia
AW – Aruba
AZ – Azerbaijan
BA – Bosnia and Herzegovina
BD – Bangladesh
BB – Barbados
BE – Belgium
BF – Burkina Faso
BG – Bulgaria
BH – Bahrain
BI – Burundi
BJ – Benin
BM – Bermuda
BN – Brunei Darussalam
BO – Bolivia
BR – Brazil
BS – The Bahamas
BT – Bhutan
BV – Bouvet Island
BW – Botswana
BY – Belarus
BZ – Belize
CA – Canada
CC – Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CD – Congo, Democratic Republic
CF – Central African Republic
CG – Congo
CH – Switzerland
CI – Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
CK – Cook Islands
CL – Chile
CM – Cameroon
CN – China
Co – Columbia
CR – Costa Rica
CS – Serbia and Montenegro
CU – Cuba
CV – Cape Verde
CX – Christmas Island
CY – Cyprus
CZ – Czechoslovakia
DE – Germany
DJ – Djibouti
DK – Denmark
DO – Dominican Republic
DM – Dominica
DZ – Algeria
EC – Equador
EE – Estonia
EG – Egypt
EH – Western Sahara
ER – Eritrea
ES – Spain
ET – Ethiopia
FI – Finland
FJ – Fiji
FK – Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
FM – Micronesia
FO – Faroe Islands
FR – France
GA – Gabon
GD – Grenada
GE – Georgia
GF – French Guiana
GG – Guernsey
GH – Ghana
GI – Gibraltar
GL – Greenland
GM – Gambia
GN – Guinea
GP – Guadeloupe
GR – Greece
GS – South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
GT – Guatemala
GQ – Equatorial Guinea
GU – Guam
GW – Guinea-Bissau
GY – Guyana
HK – Hong Kong
HM – Heard and McDonald Islands
HN – Honduras
HR – Croatia (Hrvatska)
HT – Haiti
HU – Hungary
ID – Indonesia
IE – Ireland
IL -Israel
IN – India
IO – British Indian Ocean Territory
IQ – Iraq
IS – Iceland
IT – Italy
JE – Jersey
JM – Jamaica
JP – Japan
JO – Jordan
KE – Kenya
KG – Kyrgyzstan
KH – Cambodia
KN – Saint Kitts and Nevis
KR – South Korea
KW – Kuwait
KY – Cayman Islands
KZ – Kazakhstan
LA – Lao People’s Democratic Republic
LB – Lebanon
LC – Saint Lucia
LI – Liechtenstein
LK – Sri Lanka
LR – Liberia
LS – Lesotho
LT – Lithuania
LU – Luxembourg
LV – Latvia
LY – Libya
MA – Morocco ? Malawi ?
MC – Monaco
MD – Moldova
MG – Madagascar
MH – Marshall Islands
MK – Macedonia
ML – Mali
MN – Mongolia
MM – Myanmar
MO – Macau
MP – Northern Mariana Islands
MQ – Martinique
MR – Mauritania
MS – Montserrat
MT – Malta
MU – Mauritius
MV – Maldives
MW – Malawi
MX – Mexico
MY – Malaysia
MZ – Mozambique
NA – Namibia
NC – New Caledonia
NE – Niger
NF – Norfolk Island
NG – Nigeria
NL – Netherlands
NO – Norway
NP – Nepal
NR – Nauru
NU – Niue
NZ – New Zealand
OM – Oman
PA – Panama
PE – Peru
PF – French Polynesia
PG – Papua New Guinea
PH – Philippines
PK – Pakistan
PL – Poland
PM – St. Pierre and Miquelon
PN – Pitcairn Islands
PR – Puerto Rico
PS – Palestinian Territory
PT – Portugal
PW – Palau
PY – Paraguay
QA – Qatar
RE – Reunion
RO – Romania
RU – Russian Federation
RW – Rwanda
SA – Saudi Arabia
SB – Solomon Islands
SC – Seychelles
SE – Sweden
SG – Singapore
SH – Saint Helena
SI – Slovenia
SJ – Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
SK – Slovakia
SL – Sierra Leone
SM – San Marino
SN – Senegal
SR – Suriname
ST – Sao Tome and Principe
SV – El Salvador
SZ – Swaziland
TC – Turks and Caicos Islands
TD – Chad
TF – French Southern Territories
TG – Togo
TH – Thailand
TJ – Tajikistan
TK – Tokelau
TL – East Timor
TM – Turkmenistan
TN – Tunisia
TO – Tonga
TT – Trinidad and Tobago
TR – Turkey
TV – Tuvalu
TW – Taiwan
TZ – Tanzania
UA – Ukraine
UG – Uganda
UK – Britain
UM – United States Minor Outlying Islands
UZ – Uzbekistan
UY – Uruguay
VA – Vatican
VC – Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines
VE – Venezuela
VG – British Virgin Islands
VI – Virgin Islands
VN – Viet Nam
VU – Vanuatu
WF – Wallis and Futuna Islands
YE – Yemen
YT – Mayotte
ZA – South Africa
ZM – Zambia
ZW – Zimbabwe