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MikhaRlin said:

Advertising will only mark the site in yellow and will make it more suspectable to most searchers as it may look to them as a commercial site.

I'm talking about being on top of search results when searching for "foresking regeneration", which doesn't require any payment to Google, but wise html tagging, keywords, title tagging, and meta tags. If foregen webmaster is proficient enough in these fields and understands the urgency in making it to the top of search when searching for "foreskin regeneration", he would manage to make it by himself. If not, there are 3rd party companies who expertise in doing so.

Hi Mikha,

Yeah, I didn't mean Google Adwords, I meant SEO Optimization, as we're not advertising a product per se, rather just trying to get the message out.   

I do think that optimizing search results so that Foregen starts climbing up the charts should be one of the webmaster's highest priorities. I heard about Foregen via the Wikipedia page; when I googled "foreskin restoration" a few months later I couldn't find Foregen anywhere.  I went through the cumbersome process of going back to the Wikipedia page in order to find the website.  

Here's a link to an SEO tool recommended by Tim Ferriss, author of the "Four Hour Work Week".

http://tools.seobook.com/

Regards,

Dan

Hi everybody,

One last idea and I'll hop off my soap box: becoming listed in a charity network.

There exists multiple websites which help guide people to a service organization of their choice.  Just type in a keyword on the home page and voilà: multiple charities to which one can donate.  The two big ones that I've heard of are:

http://www.charitynavigator.org and

http://www.networkforgood.org

Network for Good has multiple anti-circumcision organizations listed, but not ours.  It may represent another avenue to get the word out and raise money.  

Regards,

Dan

Foregen said:

Restoration_at_last? said:

 

One last idea and I'll hop off my soap box: becoming listed in a charity network.

There exists multiple websites which help guide people to a service organization of their choice.  Just type in a keyword on the home page and voilà: multiple charities to which one can donate.  The two big ones that I've heard of are:

http://www.charitynavigator.org and

http://www.networkforgood.org

 

Network for Good has multiple anti-circumcision organizations listed, but not ours.  It may represent another avenue to get the word out and raise money.  

 

Dan or Damn……. you forget a small detail:we are not an american charity yet

Understood, but if approval of 501(c)(3) status is imminent, then in my opinion it's something that is worth looking in to.

Enzo said:

Daniel de Roo said:

I also think that we should consider freshening up this website.  A professionally designed website will assuage any doubt that what we're trying to achieve is real and not fly-by-night.  I'm not trying to offend but the website gives off a little bit of a sketchy vibe.

We can bid out the redesign to people on elance.com; obviously we should set a small budget and jettison the bid if noone wants to do it at our budgeted price.  

Is the company symbol stock material, or was it custom made, i.e., designed by a professional?  If not, then we should consider hiring somebody to come up with a symbol for us.

I'd like to hear feedback whether positive or negative. 

-Dan

 

Sofar we have spent more than 6000 $ for the website,only 1000 $ taken from the donations,and when we have used 1000 $ to build the forum, more than 40 members have enrolled and payed the expenses,the forum really paid for itself, the same with the billboard we payed 850 $ for it, but after 15 days that money has been compensated from abundant new donations that evidently come from people on the highways who have seen the billboard.So ,my experience tells me if we use the money to improve foregen visibility we will have it back from new donations, So, i am available to redesign the website and make  advertising via Google Adwords  and advertising with targeted magazines that have readership totals exceeding 15,000, but we have to use the money coming from the donations.

Now,when it comes to money  i want to clarify a misunderstanding ,Foregen is not  a business company,and donators are not investing their money .When somebody donates to Foregen , by law no one can take that money, it must be used only for foregen purposes.If i support a non profit i believe in its mission and i support its values , because they are my values too ,and i just give the money to it because i already know that money will be used to achieve the  goal , and to me this is enough.Despite that some people say :"I do not like what foregen is doing with MY money……",of course these people are suspicious about us anyway and do not believe we are going to use "THEIR" money to achieve the goal, so , why do they donate it to us?These people, instead of thinking to their personal fears and  put their ego first, should change their spirit and understand once for all,that with"THEIR money" the entire comunity of circumcised will benefit first .If they can not understand this spirit , then ,they can keep "THEIR" money,we do not need their donations .When i give the blood i do not care what the doctors do with my blood and who benefits from it, actually ,i do not want to know it.Regarding the logo, the symbol of foregen is a rose with its bud, it took me some months to think to the  right idea and i have personally designed it.

Hi Enzo,

I have access to Dreamweaver and could give the redesign a try at no cost to the community. I'd like to challenge myself just to get a learning opportunity with the software. If you don't like it you have no obligation to pay me. I'd just like to try and contribute to the success of this project any way I can. One donation is all I can afford as a student, but I hope to get more supporters to join from people I know.

Like Dan, I got a slightly sketchy vibe from the site at first because,

A: It looks kind of amateur/template-based and uses an uneasy color palette (no offense, it's not terrible).

B: The links are confusing, as are the split forums.

C: You're asking for cash. Any site asking for cash gets a red flag for any experienced web surfer.

If you'd let me use the assets for the site I'd give it a shot. I think it really could just use a few tweaks.

Ryan