psyris page creation help ... tips and explanations
questions and answers
Q. What is this security question you want me to write?
A. The answer to your security question is your password.
Over a number of years at this site and others, I have had zero problems with hackers breaking in to accounts. It's not a huge challenge and there is nothing to be gained. The pages are not designed to be private, they are meant to be public.
Still, you shouldn't make it obvious or easy to guess, and don't use a question for which others could easily find the answer. Don't use secure information. Don't use your mother's maiden name.
Psyris does not have an automated password retrieval system (nor would we wish to). If you need to access your page and you can't, there is the secret decoder ring ... send me a note and I'll retrieve your account information.
Q. I'm having trouble accessing my account, what's the problem?
A. Start by checking you are entering your license # correctly.
You have to enter your license # exactly the way it appears on your page! My license is: PSY8693 ... it's not just the numbers and I write it without any spaces. However you first entered it, that's how it has to be.
Q. What's the difference between the private and the public email?
A. Psyris may need to contact you. You have to provide an email address for psyris. That will remain private.
It's a good idea to publish an email where other people can reach you ... but that's your decision.
The published email is not in the form of a "live" link, so it is "less likely" to be harvested by my cousin, the former Nigerian Banker and Ambassador.
Q. Will my page be immediately available on the web?
A. Yes. Your psyris.com address is immediately active, if you chose to "publish" it.
Q. Will my page be immediately available in the search engines?
A. No. Google and others have to find your page in their web crawls and then index it. Google crawls psyris regularly, but only when they feel like it. And they don't grab everything everytime they crawl. Other search engines also crawl psyris, but you never know when they will be coming by.
Q. Is there anything I can do to help get my page indexed?
A. Yes.
1. Submit your psyris page url to the search engines directly:
Google link submit
Bing link submit
Yahoo link submit ... (I wouldn't bother with Yahoo myself).
2. Put a link to your psyris page on your own website, if you have one. When your site is crawled, the "spiders" will see the link to your psyris page and will check it out. When they see the link back to your page at psyris, the rank at your own homepage will improve.
3. Announce your new page on a Google blog! Blog entries can be indexed in a matter of minutes. It's not sure fire that they will crawl back to your page, but the link will be picked up. On the left, you will see that I have a free ad board that runs on a Google blog ... post an ad free and announce your new psyris page (or anything else) and include your psyris link!
Q. Can I leave some of the sections blank?
A. I wouldn't advise it.
A lot of time and thought went in to the page design and layout. Leave a section blank and you leave a header or some formatting looking odd. The assumption is that everyone has at least a few words to say about their background, services, expertise and office.
Q. How should I write my brief practice description?
A.You have a limited number of characters. It's a title line for your page. It's a summary statement about what you do.
Q. How should I describe my location?
A. Here, you want to tell people where you are located in terms they will immediately understand. By the time they reach your page, they will probably at least know what State you are in and perhaps what County.
In most cases, you will want to give a City name, and perhaps a bit more, like: "Yuba City, in the Financial District."
In other cases, you would specify a larger are, like: "North Santa Barbara" or "South Lake Tahoe."
If you were to say: "Midtown Sacramento," there would be no confusion.
Your location might require some further explantion, like: "Midtown Manhattan, on the east side, near Bob's Cheese Parlor."
Q. What should I say in the bio section?
A. This is your professional statement ... the main body of your webpage. You have to decide what you want people to read about you.
Some people say that you practice statement should decscribe your "ideal" client or how you go about conducting treatment.
I think you should start instead by saying at least a few words about yourself. I think that people want to know who you are, and not how you feel about therapy. I believe that people actually want to know about your background and experience.
This does not have to be long or comprehensive. What you are aiming for is just the right amount of information. Not too much, not too little.
If you are bilingual, make certain you tell people!
Q. What should I say about the services I provide?
A. Tell people what you do. Bear in mind the difference between what you do and who you do it with.
"Children" or "couples" are not a service.
Q. What should I say about my areas of expertise?
A. This is where you talk about specific populations, or problems or issues that you deal with. This is where you describe the problems you are prepared to address.
Q. Can I make a really long list of the things I do?
A. Yes you can. But stop for a moment and think if that makes you look like an expert and whether it helps distinguish you. Personally, I don't think it looks as good.
Q. What can I put under office information?
A. This is where you can say anything needing to be said about your practice or your office policies. You can talk about health plans or sliding fee scales, hours of operation or specific location instructions. Be certain that you include information about languages other than English in which you provide services.
This is an unrestricted field. You need to decide what needs to be said here. You want to provide information that will encourage clients to call, and you want to avoid including information that will turn people away.
If you don't know what to say, you could just put "Please call."
Q. Why can't I use CAPITAL LETTERS in my page name?
A. When people enter your address on the web, it doesn't matter if they enter capital letters or not. You can give out your address as having capitals. But entering it here in caps has created errors on occasion. It seems to be a Windows thing.
Have further questions? Write me and I will compose an answer: pgm8693@gmail.com
A. The answer to your security question is your password.
Over a number of years at this site and others, I have had zero problems with hackers breaking in to accounts. It's not a huge challenge and there is nothing to be gained. The pages are not designed to be private, they are meant to be public.
Still, you shouldn't make it obvious or easy to guess, and don't use a question for which others could easily find the answer. Don't use secure information. Don't use your mother's maiden name.
Psyris does not have an automated password retrieval system (nor would we wish to). If you need to access your page and you can't, there is the secret decoder ring ... send me a note and I'll retrieve your account information.
Q. I'm having trouble accessing my account, what's the problem?
A. Start by checking you are entering your license # correctly.
You have to enter your license # exactly the way it appears on your page! My license is: PSY8693 ... it's not just the numbers and I write it without any spaces. However you first entered it, that's how it has to be.
Q. What's the difference between the private and the public email?
A. Psyris may need to contact you. You have to provide an email address for psyris. That will remain private.
It's a good idea to publish an email where other people can reach you ... but that's your decision.
The published email is not in the form of a "live" link, so it is "less likely" to be harvested by my cousin, the former Nigerian Banker and Ambassador.
Q. Will my page be immediately available on the web?
A. Yes. Your psyris.com address is immediately active, if you chose to "publish" it.
Q. Will my page be immediately available in the search engines?
A. No. Google and others have to find your page in their web crawls and then index it. Google crawls psyris regularly, but only when they feel like it. And they don't grab everything everytime they crawl. Other search engines also crawl psyris, but you never know when they will be coming by.
Q. Is there anything I can do to help get my page indexed?
A. Yes.
1. Submit your psyris page url to the search engines directly:
Google link submit
Bing link submit
Yahoo link submit ... (I wouldn't bother with Yahoo myself).
2. Put a link to your psyris page on your own website, if you have one. When your site is crawled, the "spiders" will see the link to your psyris page and will check it out. When they see the link back to your page at psyris, the rank at your own homepage will improve.
3. Announce your new page on a Google blog! Blog entries can be indexed in a matter of minutes. It's not sure fire that they will crawl back to your page, but the link will be picked up. On the left, you will see that I have a free ad board that runs on a Google blog ... post an ad free and announce your new psyris page (or anything else) and include your psyris link!
Q. Can I leave some of the sections blank?
A. I wouldn't advise it.
A lot of time and thought went in to the page design and layout. Leave a section blank and you leave a header or some formatting looking odd. The assumption is that everyone has at least a few words to say about their background, services, expertise and office.
Q. How should I write my brief practice description?
A.You have a limited number of characters. It's a title line for your page. It's a summary statement about what you do.
Q. How should I describe my location?
A. Here, you want to tell people where you are located in terms they will immediately understand. By the time they reach your page, they will probably at least know what State you are in and perhaps what County.
In most cases, you will want to give a City name, and perhaps a bit more, like: "Yuba City, in the Financial District."
In other cases, you would specify a larger are, like: "North Santa Barbara" or "South Lake Tahoe."
If you were to say: "Midtown Sacramento," there would be no confusion.
Your location might require some further explantion, like: "Midtown Manhattan, on the east side, near Bob's Cheese Parlor."
Q. What should I say in the bio section?
A. This is your professional statement ... the main body of your webpage. You have to decide what you want people to read about you.
Some people say that you practice statement should decscribe your "ideal" client or how you go about conducting treatment.
I think you should start instead by saying at least a few words about yourself. I think that people want to know who you are, and not how you feel about therapy. I believe that people actually want to know about your background and experience.
This does not have to be long or comprehensive. What you are aiming for is just the right amount of information. Not too much, not too little.
If you are bilingual, make certain you tell people!
Q. What should I say about the services I provide?
A. Tell people what you do. Bear in mind the difference between what you do and who you do it with.
"Children" or "couples" are not a service.
Q. What should I say about my areas of expertise?
A. This is where you talk about specific populations, or problems or issues that you deal with. This is where you describe the problems you are prepared to address.
Q. Can I make a really long list of the things I do?
A. Yes you can. But stop for a moment and think if that makes you look like an expert and whether it helps distinguish you. Personally, I don't think it looks as good.
Q. What can I put under office information?
A. This is where you can say anything needing to be said about your practice or your office policies. You can talk about health plans or sliding fee scales, hours of operation or specific location instructions. Be certain that you include information about languages other than English in which you provide services.
This is an unrestricted field. You need to decide what needs to be said here. You want to provide information that will encourage clients to call, and you want to avoid including information that will turn people away.
If you don't know what to say, you could just put "Please call."
Q. Why can't I use CAPITAL LETTERS in my page name?
A. When people enter your address on the web, it doesn't matter if they enter capital letters or not. You can give out your address as having capitals. But entering it here in caps has created errors on occasion. It seems to be a Windows thing.
Have further questions? Write me and I will compose an answer: pgm8693@gmail.com