Church Administrators and Pastors - increasing web traffic
 

Anyone got any FREE ideas on how to increase web traffic to a church web site for FREE?

Did I mention I'm looking for FREE ways to do this?

In case you missed it... looking for FREE ways to do this.

;)

Any tips? Ideas?


I'm aware of the fact that you can submit a site for a search engine to crawl with its web crawler, and to use really good meta tags, but any other ideas...?

ADMINS!

Please don't throw this into the Tech area.

No one goes there...

Cause no one wants to be labeled a "geek!" :heeheehee :sshhh

Post it here and you'll get tons of hits - just ask MOW!

Of course, it's not the type of traffic you are looking for!

That's why I haven't done so already.

;)

Looking for locals... not yokels.

My heart is broken!

You weren't lumped into it... ;)

Meta keywords are useless, well, less than useless. nobody indexes them any more.

Meta DESCRIPTION - different story. google bots index that.

Textual content on the home page is also indexed.

A what's New area on the home page, with new stuff that changes fairley frequently.

Also see http://www.seochat.com/

Lot of resources there.

Really there is no magic that will put you on top tommorow, but there are ways that will, OVER TIME, do the job.

Link exchanges also help rankings, Buuuttt.....since I am not about to link to a site that I don't like or whose content I find unacceptable, won't use that tool.

Thanks John

Anytime Bro!

If you want a lot of traffic on your thread, you should let Thad be the one to name it and start it...:drseuss

Key words are not just in the meta tags but also in the text itself.

You can also visit a bunch of boards and post and post the link or include it in your signature line

Uh???

can you explain ??:hmmm

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By the way, I think every few minutes, he does a search on his name on every thread in the forum because he shows up whenever anyone mentions his name.

:heeheehee

If he doesn't he will now!! :sing

not true ive been asked on many occasion if I was ignoring
individuals. i don't read 1/2 the threads that are started.
I was taken by surprise on this one- it is rare for josh to say anything to me

Please, say it isn't so......

It was a joke, Thad... lighten up, Sparky.

well how was i to know Ron? we haven't been on the best terms for quite some time let's be honest. I'm not trying to start anything just stating a fact

Take it to pm, bro. Thanks.

:hmmm

Any ideas, O Linux Guru?

Indeed. My first thought is for all the time we placed in creating sections, the abhorrance of moving threads seems a bit odd coming from you.

Maybe I need a new front end than the Advanced Stats on the First page.

:bubble

If you are wanting traffic, you will get weirdos. My cylinders don't all seem to be firing as of yet today. I hope coffee will cure it, or I am gonna have a whopper of a headache later today.

What's the problem, BOOM?

It's a simple request. If you think I'm out of line then move it. No biggie... sheesh.

The other Admins go in routinely to find older threads and move them for hope someone will have an answer or spark discussion that may have been forgotten.

:highfive

The fact you have meta tags does not always mean you will have web traffic. Does your site offer anything others do not? Is it a niche in the local area not offered by other churches. What do you want for the website? Do you want outside visitors to visit like this one, or do you want information to enable visitors to find the local church?

Yes.

Yes.

Both.

What worked here- RSS feeds and updated content. Being listed in RSS feeds and having updates enabled the search engines to notice us faster. Next have a set of urls that are search engine optimized. What other information sites are available on your niche on the web? view the source of those sites found in Google and see what they are offering.

I hate flash driven sites that are so slow to load and I always found it annoying a church webpage did not have a map in plain clear view. My experience is the live.local.com mappping engine is more up to date than mapquest or Google. My biggest personal pet peeve is empty buildings in photos. We are about people not architecture!

I have to go face the day.

live.local.com won't work for us based on the way they require information for the address... long story, but we're using someone else's facility and don't have one of our own yet. Makes it difficult to use that tool.

We have a picture of a map on the site for directions and have it hot linked to the mapquest page for that address.

I've got a blog set up for us, but it is not live yet nor linked to the main site. Once it is, we'll have copies of audio messages which will be updated weekly. That, I think, will help wih the RSS side of things and the crawlers.

Thanks for the ideas, BOOM

Also Bro, different engines do different things, so what works for google won't work with yahoo or microsoft live. Me I just focus on google.

Yeah, that's where my focus is too. Second to that is Yahoo.