GoodSearch
About Goodsearch

THINGS YOU CAN DO

SEND AN EMAIL TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

The more people use GoodSearch on behalf of your cause, the more money it will raise! A simple email to spread the word can go a long way! Please feel free to customize the following message:

Subject: [charity or school name] Needs Your Help!

As you know, I'm a supporter of [charity or school name] and as you can imagine nonprofits and schools are facing a fundraising crisis this year.

The good news is that more than 900 of the top Internet retailers and travel sites including Amazon, eBay, Target, Apple, Expedia and more have joined forces with GoodShop.com to donate part of every purchase to your favorite charity or school at no additional cost to you (more than 72,000 nonprofits are now on-board)!

It takes just a few seconds to go to www.goodshop.com, select your charity, and then click through to your favorite store and shop as usual.

Also, Yahoo has teamed up with GoodShop's sister site, GoodSearch.com, to donate a penny to your cause every time you search the web. This is totally free as the money comes from advertisers.

To give you a sense of how the money can add up, the ASPCA has already earned more than $23,000!

Please tell 10 friends about GoodShop and GoodSearch today. They've been featured in the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Oprah Magazine and more.

Charities need our help to spread the word now more than ever!

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EMAIL YOUR ORGANIZATION'S SUPPORTERS

Tell fellow supporters how they can raise additional money just by GoodSearching.

What if [my charity] earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause? Well, now it can!

GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!

GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting your favorite cause.

Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter [my charity] as the charity you want to support. And, be sure to spread the word!

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ADD A GOODSEARCH AND GOODSHOP LOGO TO YOUR WEBSITE, BLOG OR PROFILE

Help good causes earn money by linking to GoodSearch and GoodShop on your website, blog or profile! If you'd like to pre-populate the "Who do you GoodSearch for?" box with your favorite organization, please follow these instructions:

Here's the format for a link that will pre-select your nonprofit on our homepage:

GoodSearch: http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=xxx

GoodShop: http://www.goodshop.com/?charityid=xxx

For example: http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=12345. To find your organization's Charity ID, select it from the homepage and click on the Amount Raised page (please note, the Charity ID will only appear after at least one search has been completed).

Use the following instructions to select a banner:

  1. Choose a graphic below.
  2. Highlight the code under the graphic.
  3. Copy the code (usually Ctrl+C).
  4. Open your page with any text editor.
  5. Paste the code into your page (usually Ctrl+V).
  6. Add your charity ID to your link as described above (optional)
  7. Save your page.

BUTTONS


88x31 button — cut and paste code below


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120x60 button — cut and paste code below


88x31 logo — cut and paste code below


95x45 button — cut and paste code below


120x60 logo — cut and paste code below


120x60 animated button for cause — cut and paste code below


120x60 animated button for church — cut and paste code below


120x60 animated button for school — cut and paste code below


120x60 animated button for animal rescue — cut and paste code below


120x60 animated button for synagogue — cut and paste code below

BANNERS


190x45 banner — cut and paste code below


468x60 banner — cut and paste code below


700x100 banner — cut and paste code below
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LOGOS

GoodSearch logo
313x63 logo — cut and paste code below

GoodSearch smaller logo
200x40 logo — cut and paste code below

TOWERS


120x240 tower — cut and paste code below


140x300 tower — cut and paste code below

Here is some text explaining GoodSearch and GoodShop which you can include with the links:

  • Search the web with GoodSearch.com and each time you do a search, GoodSearch will donate a penny to our cause!
  • Shop online at GoodShop.com and a percentage of each purchase will be donated to our cause! More than 600 top stores are participating including Amazon, Target, Staples, Best Buy and more!

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DOWNLOAD THE GOODSEARCH TOOLBAR

It's easy to earn money for your top school or charity when you have our toolbar installed in your browser.

GoodSearch has toolbars for IE 6 and 7 and search box plugins for Firefox, IE7 and Safari. Click here for download instructions.

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ADD A FOOTER TO YOUR EMAILS

One of the best ways to promote GoodSearch (and your cause) is to add a message to the bottom of your outgoing e-mails. Here are directions on how to set this up so that it happens automatically.

Yahoo Mail:

  1. Login to your Yahoo! Mail account.
  2. Select Mail Options from navigation bar
  3. Follow the Signature link (under Personalization).
  4. Enter the desired message in the text field. We recommend:
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    I GoodSearch & GoodShop for [your cause].

    Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo), or shopping online with GoodShop.com
  5. Check the box Add Signature to All Outgoing Messages
  6. Click Save.
  7. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

HotMail:

  1. Login to your HotMail account.
  2. Go to the Mail category.
  3. Click on Options).
  4. Follow the Personal Signature link.
  5. Type the desired message in the text field. We recommend:
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    I GoodSearch & GoodShop for [your cause].

    Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo), or shopping online with GoodShop.com
  6. Click OK.
  7. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

Outlook Express:

  1. Launch Outlook Express.
  2. Select Tools, then select Options.
  3. Click the Signatures tab.
  4. Click the New button to add a new message.
  5. Click in the Edit Signature text field and type the desired signature text. We recommend:
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    I GoodSearch & GoodShop for [your cause].

    Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo), or shopping online with GoodShop.com
  6. If you would like to automatically add the new signature to all outgoing messages, check the option for Add Signatures to All outgoing messages.
  7. Click OK to return to the message list.
  8. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

Outlook:

  1. Launch Outlook.
  2. Select Tools, then select Options.
  3. Click the Mail Format tab.
  4. Click the Signatures.
  5. Click the New button to add a new message.
  6. Click in the Edit Signature text field and type the desired signature text. We recommend:
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    I GoodSearch & GoodShop for [your cause].

    Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo), or shopping online with GoodShop.com
  7. Click OK.
  8. Click on the name of your new message to Signature for New Messages and Signatures for Replies and Forwards boxes.
  9. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

America Online 9.0:

  1. From the AOL menu select Mail, then click Set Mail Signatures.
  2. In the Set up Signatures window, click Create.
  3. In the Signature Name box, type a name for this signature.
  4. Type your message. We recommend:
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    I GoodSearch & GoodShop for [your cause].

    Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo), or shopping online with GoodShop.com
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click the X to close the Set up Signatures window.
  7. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

America Online AIM Web Mail:

  1. Log into your AOL AIM account.
  2. Click on Settings.
  3. Enter you message. We recommend:
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    I GoodSearch & GoodShop for [your cause].

    Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch.com (powered by Yahoo), or shopping online with GoodShop.com
  4. Check the box: Add this signature to messages sent using AIM Mail on the Web.
  5. Click Save.
  6. Send an e-mail to yourself to test it out.

That's it! Now GoodSearch will be on your e-mail signature.

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MAKE GOODSEARCH YOUR HOMEPAGE AS WELL AS THE HOMEPAGE ON ALL OF THE COMPUTERS IN YOUR COMPANY OR SCHOOL

This way every time you start your web browser GoodSearch will automatically load and be the first site you see. Plus, no matter where you are on the web, you can always click your browser's home button and return to GoodSearch instantly.

Microsoft Internet Explorer users:

  1. Select Tools | Internet Options.
  2. Select the General tab.
  3. In the Address textbox, type http://www.goodsearch.com.
  4. Click OK.

Netscape Navigator users:

  1. Select Edit |Preferences.
  2. Select the Navigator category on the left side.
  3. In the Location textbox, type http://www.goodsearch.com.
  4. Click OK.

Firefox users:

  1. Select Tools | Options
  2. Select the General tab.
  3. In the Location textbox, type http://www.goodsearch.com.
  4. Click OK.

Safari users:

  1. Open a Safari browser window.
  2. In the toolbar at the top of the window, click Safari > Preferences.
  3. In the Preferences window, click the General tab.
  4. In the "Home page" field, type http://www.goodSearch.com
  5. Click the red Close button.

Google Chrome users:

  1. Go to the upper right hand corner of the screen and click on the Tools Icon.
  2. Select Options.
  3. Under the basics tab and under the Home Page section, choose "Open this page"
  4. Add http://www.GoodSearch.com to the URL box and click close.

That's it! Now GoodSearch will be your browser's homepage.

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WRITE ABOUT GOODSEARCH ON BLOGS AND MESSAGE BOARDS

This is one of the best ways to get the word out to all of your friends and supporters. Here's an example of what other bloggers have written that you can feel free to customize and share with others:

Here's a new easy way to raise money for your favorite cause. Just start using Yahoo! powered GoodSearch.com as your search engine and they'll donate a penny to your favorite cause every time you do a search!

In addition, do all of your shopping through their online shopping mall, GoodShop.com, where you can shop at more than 900 top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will go to the charity or school of your choice. You pay the same price as you normally would, but a donation goes to your cause!

Here's the web site — http://www.goodsearch.com. You can also read about GoodSearch in the NY Times, Oprah Magazine, CNN, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.

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TELL THE MEDIA ABOUT GOODSEARCH

Write to your local newspaper or TV station about GoodSearch.

Feel free to customize this press release to your organization.

Click here for press release.

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CUSTOMIZE A FLYER WITH YOUR ORGANIZATION'S NAME AND POST IT AROUND YOUR SCHOOL, WORKPLACE OR NEIGHBORHOOD

Click here for flyer template.

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SUPPORT GOODSEARCH ON MYSPACE

Please make GoodSearch your friend!

Go to: http://www.myspace.com/goodsearch (put us in your top 8!)

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SUPPORT GOODSEARCH ON FACEBOOK

Join our Facebook group and invite all your friends!

Go to: http://emerson.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2390456590

Become a fan of GoodSearch and GoodShop on Facebook!

Go to: http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/pages/GoodSearch-and-GoodShop/6514352658

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BECOME A GOODSEARCH AMBASSADOR

Love GoodSearch and want to help get the word out? We're looking for motivated school ambassadors who want to help spread the word about GoodSearch/GoodShop on their college campus or within their K-12 school!

Please email Kari at Kari.McMinn [at] GoodSearch.com so we can work with you in getting the movement started at your school!

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