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..

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How to optimise you church blog with wordpress plugins

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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