Hold on!
We have just a couple more things to do.
Search Engines
First, let’s make your website accessible for search engines. Go to Settings > Reading and make sure the box to discourage bots is not checked.
Domain name
Right now, your website is accessible through the url www.servethecity.net/cityname/ or similar. If you had a website before, you already had a domain name, which you would probably want to keep. If not, you may want to consider the purchase of one.
In general, the recommendation for the domain name format is stccityname.tld. tld stands for top-level domain. In a lot of cases, this would be a .com, .co.uk, .nl, .be, etc… (e.g. stcmadrid.com, stcdenhaag.nl).
However, for a couple of years now, some extensions are available for cities (.nyc, .brussels, .berlin, …). In the case of this being available for your city, we would encourage you to purchase such a domain name in the form of servethecity.cityname (e.g. servethecity.berlin). While in most cases, they are currently more expensive than a .com, they are showing a stronger attachment to the city itself, but also have a higher result locally on search engines like Google.
You have your domain, how do you link it?
This happens in 2 steps.
- Modify the A field in the domain’s DNS records to point to the following IP address: 93.88.255.191. (For help on this matter, you may need to contact your service provide).
- Modify or add the SPF field in the domain’s DNS records to the following: v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.infomaniak.ch -all
- Let us know about the domain name so that we can configure things on our side.