Your Crime Site websites are designed to expand with your organization as it grows. All of our websites offer the same base functionality and our premium packages offer additional features above and beyond the Free Plan.
The beauty in Your Crime Site is the simplicity and ease of use you will find as a user. It’s so simple to create your website you won’t believe your eyes.
Our technology allows you to build a website quickly, economically and professionally. We will help you organize your presence online, get you started with everything you need to become a strong resource for your organization and community.
What Can You Do With Your Crime Site?
We know that you have many choices for creating and maintaining your website, and want to share with you several of the key benefits of our sites:
Publish Quickly and Easily
Just like typing an email or using Word, creating articles with your site is a breeze. Publish immediately, or schedule your article to publish at a later date (useful for when you know you won’t have time to publish it later)!
Embed Video
Using video on YourCrimeSite is as simply as copying and pasting the URL of the video you want to use. Whether you're posting video of a crime, a memorial service or a video of safety tips, you can do it with YourCrimeSite.
Keep Visitors
Allow your guests to receive your sites updates in their inbox automatically. This is one of the best ways to ensure that your news is getting out to those who are interested in hearing about it, because they don't have to come back to your website to check it everyday, wondering if there's anything new posted. We'll show you how to set this up, too.
Highlight categories of articles or crimes
When guests click on the category, they can see ALL of that type of article at once.
Say Thanks
Say thank you to your partners, sponsors or friends by including them in your links, sharing advertisements in your sidebar, or creating entire articles about how they've helped your organization.
Use Your Own Domain, or Use Ours
All of our website domains look like www.yournamehere.yourcrimesite.com. This is called a subdomain. You'll get an address like that with your membership for free. However, if you already have a domain you'd like to use, like www.yourcrimesite.com, then we can use that for your site instead. Just let us know during the registration process and we'll get in touch to help sort that out - it's simple.
Archive Your Content
Your website auto-archives everything so guests see everything you've posted in a given month. Because you'll maintain an archive of your articles, old cases don't have to become cold cases.
Search Smart
Tag each article with relevant keywords, and allow guests to search by those. These also act as keywords for search engines, increasing your search engine result rankings. Example tags on an article might be, "October" "Wal-Mart" "copper theft". A few simple words help identify the content of the article to both your guest and search engines.
Encourage Interaction
Allow guests to comment on articles open for discussion. At the same time, close comments for pages or articles which do not require or allow them. By default, comments will be closed on your site - that way, people can't leave information about a crime on your website for everyone to see.
Accept Event Registrations
Sell your products, tickets, or accept payments for your goods/services directly on your site.
Create Custom Registrations and Forms
When you need to collect registrations for a free event, or simply collect information, creating a unique form is simple.
Develop Your Donor Base
Accept donations immediately (by credit card or check) through PayPal , a well-trusted online merchant. One time gifts and recurring donations are both available.
Increase Search Engine Results
Search engines love fresh, relevant content. You won’t have to do anything extra to increase your search engine rankings; just publish!
Track Stats
Total visits per day, week and month, as well as referrers and search engine keywords are all a part of your standard stats package. However, you will NOT have access to the individual IP addresses of your sites' guests (helping to maintain the anonymity that Crime Stoppers prides itself on).
Track Advertising Effectiveness
When you have a particular article you’ve highlighted in your latest marketing effort, see how many people are viewing that article! See the links and articles on your site getting the most traffic.
And MUCH MORE!
Being a member of the YourCrimeSite network enables you to attend all of our monthly members-only webinars where we'll show how to take advantage of the power of the internet to move your organization forward.
Examples include:
- How to better use your website - how to create engaging content
- What to do with social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In
- Why you should use YouTube and Vimeo to better share your story and your news
- How to set up a store on your website that will allow you make money from products your readers want
- How to create an e-newsletter to keep your readers up-to-date with your latest news
- And more!