On Church Webmaster we are continuing our part of the web ministry experiment we have joined.  We have started and are going to record the process of two new sites; Church Blog and Christian Blog.  The sites have been indexed and we have done our first Google search to see where our new sites are showing up.

Church Blog has made a quick showing at the bottom of page 4 in position 39:

This initial result will probably change dramatically for the worse over the next season of time.  It would not be unusual for the new site to actually quit showing up at all on Google for a few months or more.  Once the site is a little older it will generally become more steady as a result and we can focus on moving the site up to page 1.

Christian Blog is quite a bit farther back.  We found it on page15 in position 144:

The question for some might be, “How do you get the site to page 1?”.  Good question.  There are three major factors when it comes to search engine optimization; time, links, and content.  Time will take care of itself.  Content comes in the form of imformative articles written on the site.  Links have to be developed from other sites.  The links are the most difficult part of the equation and we will discuss the process of developing links in the weeks ahead.  We will be working on the content part over the next couple of weeks.  Our task will be to write five original articles for each site.  After that we will take another look and see how the sites are doing.