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Getting Your Church Noticed
Posted by: | CommentsThe Church Webmaster “Church Directories” are an excellent way to get your church noticed. When people are searching for a church to visit they often turn to Internet search engines to find what they are looking for. Our Church Directories respond well to all the search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN. etc) and people come to our sites every week looking for churches in your area.
We know that churches need to be good stewards of their budgets and we are currently offering some of the best church advertising deals on the Internet. We have four different levels of involvement and one of these plans will surely fit in your budget.
1.) Highlighted Church ($99 to $199 /year)
We have three spaces available on our directory site for “Highlighted Churches”. Our highlighted churches receive advertising coverage on one of our corner peel away ads. These ads are the most visited places on our websites. People are drawn to the ads because they want to see what is there.
The ads are located in the top right corner ($199/year as this is the most visited area on the site), top left corner ($149/year as the second most visited area on the site) and the bottom left corner ($99/year as the third most visited area of the site). As a highlighted church you will see the most Internet traffic produced by the website. We will link directly to your existing website (if you do not have a church website, we can develop and maintain one for you for as little as $199/year) as well as develop a tailored page for your church on the directory. You will also receive all of the benefits of the Featured and Suggested Church categories as well.
2.) Featured Church ($39/year)
As a “Featured Church” your church will be one of twelve churches that are placed on the scroller at the top of our church directory sites.
We will link directly to your existing website (if you do not have a church website, we can develop and maintain one for you for as little as $199/year) as well as develop a tailored page for your church on the directory. You will also receive all of the benefits of the Suggested Church category as well.
3.) Suggested Church ($19/year)
As a “Suggested Church” your church will be listed with a hot link in the middle column of our directory site just below the Featured Churches.
We will also give you a hot link to your existing church website (if you do not have a church website, we can develop and maintain one for you for as little as $199/year) on your free church listing on the site. People are more likely to visit your site with a hot link then if they have to type in your url (website address).
4.) Free Church Listing
With your free “Church listing” on our directory you can send us articles about your church which we will publish on the site. These articles can promote the activities and ministries of your church and will help to attract visitors to your existing website (if you do not have a church website, we can develop and maintain one for you for as little as $199/year) and church.
We know that these directories will bring visitors to your church! How do we know? We get a lot of visitors to our church who tell us that they found us on the Internet. Our church is in the Florida Keys and when you search for churches in the Florida Keys our directory shows up. Our church has one of the corner ads and it connects with people who are looking for a church. Check it out by clicking here “Florida Keys Churches” and then rolling your mouse over the ad in the top right corner.
If you are ready to take advantage of one of these great offers for your church, or if you have any questions, fill out the form below or call us at 305-304-6321.
Beyond the Traditional Church Website
Posted by: | CommentsThere are tremendous opportunities to impact the Kingdom of God on the Internet. We want to encourage you to use your holy imagination and ask God for ideas about how you might be able to start your own Internet based ministry. Over time, there is the possibility that ideas you have originally can evolve into other ideas. The thing to do is to get started, particullarly when it comes to the Internet. Most websites don’t get noticed by search engines very well until they have been around a while. For your Internet ministry to really be successful you will need to attract people to your site by way of the search engines.
As your ideas evolve you can make changes to your site to implement the new ideas. For example, some time ago we started a site called “Evangelism Software”. The original idea was to try and capitalize on a keyword that has pretty good traffic and see if we could use that traffic to generate some Google Adsense revenue. The reality was, however, that even after getting the site up to position 1 on page 1, it never got any significant Google Adsense participation. We decided to just let the site sit for a while. This is how it looked at the time.
It turns out, that besides Evangelism Software, a secondary keyword we had on the site began to get some traffic. That keyword set is “Start a Christian Blog”. Having people start blogs and websites to impact the Kingdom of God is the foundation of what we do on the Church Webmaster Network of sites. So while our initial idea wasn’t so hot, the site now has a newer and more noble purpose. We have gone back and given the site a face lift and are now actively targeting the “Start a Christian Blog” traffic. The goal is no longer a monetary one, it has more of a ministry focus. The new site looks like this:
The site is currently in position 3 for “start a Christian blog” and position 2 for “evangelism software”. We will continue to develop the site so that it beomes position 1 for both keyword sets. The site will then not only function in its new ministry roll, it will also help people to other sites in our network.
