Church Administrators and Pastors - increasing web traffic

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind

Does your site offer anything others do not?

Yes.

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind

Is it a niche in the local area not offered by other churches.

Yes.

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind

Do you want outside visitors to visit like this one, or do you want information to enable visitors to find the local church?

Both.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by Ronzo

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