How to optimise you church blog with wordpress plugins

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I have been promising for a while now a video tutorial on wordpress.. so I have done a brief tutorial on 3 plugins that help you get stacks more traffic form the search engines.

Enjoy and comments are welcomed.

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How to drive endless traffic to your church blog or website.

Lets face we have all done it, got all excited about our church website or even blog. Most churches and Christian organizations spend endless amounts of time getting the website or blog looking right and spend very little time marketing that website.

How do you go about driving traffic to that website? In business, if you have a shop on a backstreet then there is no point opening if people do not know how to find you. This is similar with church, the website is all about reaching out and letting the community you are serving know you are there for them. If you cannot drive traffic to your website then your time and money in setting it up has been wasted. Harsh I know but true!

I have had many conversations with church leaders that always think marketing has to cost lots of money, and frankly that perception is wrong. In today’s age, you can market online for very little.

Here are five ways to market your church online

1. Wordpress website / blog –
2. Youtube Channel
3. Facebook / Myspace
4. Podcasts of sermons
5. Press Release

These will drive endless amounts of traffic to your church website every week. You can do all these for very little or no cost at all and you point them all back to your website / church blog to raise awareness. In today’s age the internet is so powerful and it is about time we started to get wise and start to use it to build the Kingdom of God.

Make sure you sign up to the newsletter and updates in the top right hand corner as I will be doing video tutorials on all these soon.

Steve

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Church blogging - The secret to installing wordpress

Yesterday we spoke about research and planning your site for the first few posts and putting yourself in the shoes of the reader. Today, I just want to put together a series of posts on how to get wordpress installed and how to start adding content.

Firstly, you need a domain name to host it. If you are unsure what to call it then use a tool

http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon

http://www.domainsbot.com/

Once you have a domain name in mind or already have one then you need to put the wordpress software on you hosting account. If you already have hosting just ask them if they support hosting a wordpress blog and if they have a wordpress installer in the control panel.

If you need hosting there are plenty out there to choose from I would recommend

http://www.everymanhosting.com

They have a wordpress installer which literally takes 30 seconds to install.

Once it is up and running you can start to change the design as it comes with two very basic themes which personally don’t look great.

All you need to do a search on google for wordpress themes and download them onto your computer and we will cover how to do it in the next post.

Have a browse here though.

http://hackwordpress.com/best-magazine-style-wordpress-themes/

In my opinion these are some of the best free magazine style wordpress themes.

Steve

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