Church blog or church website?
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There are many people out there that engage in the debate website v blog.. Its about time Ignite entered the debate.
As you can see I have gone for wordpress to manage my content for my domain. Why did I go for wordpress when some people say wordpress is blogging software?
Well wordpress is so much more than just blogging software.
Wordpress is:-
CMS - A content management system
SEO Friendly - Once set up the engines love fresh content
Open source - Its free and updates are free
Its a publishing system - A marketer once said to me “if you write the content you
control the content”
You connect with the reader easier when a blog is more personal than writing website corporate copy
This doesnt mean that websites are the wrong way when looking ast providing an online presence..
My home church is http://www.KingsBolton.co.uk
That is our domain and we are currently working on adding a blog on to a subdomian which is
http://www.kingsbolton.co.uk/blog
This way you get the best of both worlds..
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.
Why Ignite
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Welcome, I always like to share a little about me. My name is Steve Prescott, I am 29 years young, I live in Bolton in the UK. I am the founder and author of igniteyourministry.com.
I have set up this site to share, teach and learn from other online marketers in the Christian world. I have been marketing online for the last decade but only over the last 3 years I have really seen massive growth online in the secular market. More about that shortly, a bit about me first.
I am Steve, I have been a reborn christian for 3 1/2 years now and my life has been turned around. I am now studying at Nazarene Theological College in Manchester, England training to become a Pastor. I am part of a church called Kings Church Bolton and is part of the Assemblies of God denomination.
I have a beautiful daughter called Stephanie whom is 7 this year and is growing into an a brilliant young lady. I have learnt from some of the best online marketers in the business and feel compelled to share what I have learned to the Christian community to build local church, and Christian para-organistaions, which in turn will build the Kingdom of God. Some of this information will be free, other courses will have a cost.
Read the vision statement on how I can help.
Steve has been working in online marketing for the last 10 years. Since becoming a Christian 3 years ago his heart changed from making money to building the Kingdom of God and a vision was birthed to create a series of training courses to aid the church and Christian para-organisations