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What is a Guest Book?

A guest book is web page that allows visitors to your site to post comments to you and to other visitors.

Recommended Uses

Good way to collect testimonials to post later
Good way to interact with your customers and get feedback

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Overview

Steps covered in this Guest Book guide:

Adding a Guest Book
Editing Your Page
Posting a Message
Editing or Deleting a Message
Editing Your Title Tag, Meta Tag and Header Info

1. Adding a Guest Book

Under the 'Edit Site' tab, click 'Add Page'.
Click 'Guest Book'.

Name your new page. This name is what will be shown in your navigation menu.
Enter a 'Page URL'. This creates the individual webpage address for that page. TIP: Use keywords or words that reflect the content that will be on that page.

By default, the 'Check to show this page in your navigation menu' box is checked. If you do not want the page to show in your menu, uncheck the box.

Click 'Add Page'.

You'll then be on the editing page.

2. Editing Your Page

Any time you want to make changes to your page:

Click the 'Edit Site' tab.
Click 'Edit' beside the page you want to edit.

Or, if viewing the page you want to edit, click 'Edit Page' on the toolbar.

You'll then be on the 'Header & Footer' section of the editing page.

Text that you put in the Title and Subtitle fields will be displayed at the top of your page, with the Title text also being automatically used as your Title Tag. For more information about Tags, please read Page Title, Meta & Head Tags.

The header and footer appear above and below the Guest Book. To edit the header and footer, add and make changes to text using the text editor and click 'Save Changes' when finished.

3. Posting a Message

To post a comment on a Guest Book page, go to your Guest Book page and click on the 'Post Message' button.

Fill out the comment page and then click 'Post Comment'.

4. Editing or Deleting a Message

View your Guest Book page.
Click the 'Edit' or 'Delete' link on the comment you want to edit or delete. You must be logged in as the administrator to view these links; your visitors will not be able to see them.

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

To help with search engine ranking you can customize your title, description, and keyword tags for individual pages. Advanced users can also place code between the <head> tags. This feature is available through the editing page under 'Internet Marketing' on the left of the editing page. To learn more, please read Page Title, Meta & Head Tags.

Alternatively, you can apply the same description and keyword tags site-wide, which is great if you don't yet have time to do them for individual pages. To learn how, please read Marketing Your Site: Meta Keywords and Meta Description.