Herefordshire Histories Festival

CREATE AN EVENT.

ADD YOUR EVENT

We have a form. A dozen sections, which all work together to create…

  • Your event page.
  • The intro panel people see on the Events pages and elsewhere on the site.
  • An address pin with basic detail on the county locations map.
  • A Google-friendly page so that your event can be found easily, we hope.

Scroll down and fill in the form, submit, and we’ll do the rest.

NOTE, WE HAVE TO CHECK YOUR EVENT DETAILS, AND THEN WE PUBLISH IT. FILLING IN THE FORM DOES NOT MEAN IMMEDIATE EVENT LISTING.

If you want to know first how each bit works, click the HOW IT ALL WORKS button below. We recommend that! Best you know exactly what you are doing.

Any problem, check the How it All Works section, and then if needed, contact… info@herefordshirehistories.org.

Hi, I’m Robin, webguy for HHF.

I’ve created a dummy example page to show Event workings. My ficticious event is a ‘Pirate Club’ meeting in my village hall.

Here’s my Pirate Event page. Let’s go down the form and see where the bits show.

  • A we set at the end.
  • B is the Event Title. This is in the top heading panel, on the main location map, and in the event page info panels, and SEO. Important.
  • C is the Secondary title, which fills in detail missed in the page title. Optional.
  • D is the ‘Excerpt’ as it’s called. A short advert for the event. Where, when, with a quick summary. Shows in this page as the first bit of copy, SEO, on the main location map,and the info panels. Important too.
  • E is your main copy. If you’re copy and pasting, check it’s plain text. Emails for example can have hidden formatting. Best way round is paste into WORD first, strip out formatting, then copy. But if it ends up looking odd we’ll correct it for you. Try to include your Focus Keyword (see below) once or twice.
  • F is the event location address. Importantly this tells Google how to create a map (with directions) so folk can find you. And places a pin on the main location map,
  • G is what we call the ‘Featured Image’, which you must have. Shows at top of page, on the main location map, and on the info panels. We’ll optimise the size, but under THREE MB please. And landscape view is best.
  • H is an optional second pic.
  • I is Event Categories. This tells the system where to display your info. Because we show events together by region and relevant dates. Select ALL your dates and the area.
  • J is the name of your organisation.
  • K is the organisation’s contact details. Optional, might not apply to you.
  • L, your website link is optional too.

Lastly, we’d like to know how you might search Google for the event (details below), and your name and contact email please.

Below is my Events pages info panel. With letter references.

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GETTING THE EVENT GOOGLE-FRIENDLY

We ask for  one or two words might you use to find the event page on Google. This is called ‘Focus Keyword’ and is key to good SEO (searchability). With my dummy event it has got to be ‘pirate’ (if choosing singular or plural, go singular). One (maybe two) word(s) that folk might search for on Google.

The SEO gizmo we use is Rank Math, and on the right is how it looks on the backend of the site. Note, how ‘pirate’ is in the page title (B), page URL (comes from Page Title), and Excerpt (D). Those inclusions with the ‘pirate’ keyword, give a decent SEO score.

And betters the chance of your event being discovered!

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Info below is for Google optimisation, to contact you to confirm your page, and with any questions (this info is not shown on the site).


FILLED IN YOUR FORM? EXCELLENT!