I created a website (thepilgrimatlas.com) a while ago inspired by St. Carlo Acutis that has a multitude of features but the main feature is the map that has the birthplace and place of death of saints. I am trying to do two things
1. Find a sponsor so I can keep adding to my map
and
2. Get more traffic to my website
If anyone has an answer to either of these two, please answer.
I immediately liked your website because two of the three saints on the home page (St. Josephine and St. Blaise) are in my personal litany.
Only when I worked for a private company did I get paid for website work, so I have no suggestions about sponsors. Back around 2001, my manager wanted me to learn HTML. I was reluctant, but I liked HTML and have been writing my own code ever since. Back then the programs for web design were clunky; for example, with Indesign, we had to write our own hyperlinks, and the code it produced was bloated. I think I attended a one-day class on web design for non-designers, and that was a great help.
Looking at the source code of your website, I don’t see any keywords. They are essential. This is how search engines find your website. In the part of your source code there should be a section like this with possible search terms separated by commas: <meta name=keywords content="saints, atlas, map, Josephine, Blaise, Valentine, stories, prayers“>. Each individual web page in your site should have this too, and the prayers page, for example, should list the prayers but not things that are not on the page (such as maps). For example, <meta name=keywords content="saints, prayers, St. Carlo Acutis prayer, Saint Carlo Acutis prayer”> etc., with all the saints prayers listed as keywords and both “St.” and “Saint,” because people could search for either, and this will help the search engine find it.
Your home page does have a meta-content description, but it’s too long. This is what the search engine will display in search results. Yours says It tells the user what is on the website that the search engine found, so it should have only the essence of it, for example “A map of every saint’s birth and death place”; each of your web pages on the site should have a similar description specific to the page.
This will take some work, but these are the most important things you could do with the site to attract readers. It’s good that you are building a website. A web designer I worked with said that any other web presence, such as a Facebook page, should also point to a web page, which is relatively stable and permanent.
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Steve Dunham
Steve Dunham’s Trains of Thought: www.stevedunham.50megs.com
“In the part of your source code” should have the word “head” between < and > in front of the word “part,” but this website keeps deleting it.
Well done! I found a mall typo. On the button that says, “Lent with the Saints 2026,” you forgot the “s” on Saints.
For your map, you have to include the Tomb of the 26 Martyrs in Japan! And places where St. Maximillian Kolbe worked & worshiped during his time there. Also, the Doctor who converted to the Catholic Faith and helped many who survived the bombing of Nagasaki. His name is Takashi Nagai (1908–1951).
My daughter and I hope to visit there next year if we can save up enough money.