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Friday, February 15, 2008
Save on .org, .mobi, and .eu domains
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I don't know how long we'll be able to offer these special prices, so you'll want to act quickly in order to take advantage of them! .org - $6.99 for the first yearPurchase a new .org domain name and pay only $6.99 for the first year. Additional years may be purchased for our current price of $8.99/yr. (Additional ICANN fee of $.20/yr applies.) .mobi - $10.99 for the first yearMore people are browsing websites using their mobile devices. Reserve your .mobi today, to ensure that it's available for you in the future. You'll pay only $10.99 for your first year, and can add on additional years for our current price of $14.99/yr. (Additional ICANN fee of $.20/yr applies.) .eu - $12.99/yrPurchase or transfer for as many years as you like at the low, low price of $12.99/yr. This is a substantial savings over our regular price of $19.99/yr. Don't delay-- register your domains today! Labels: .eu, .mobi, .org, domains, promotion
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Monday, July 02, 2007
Take Time for Self Promotion - Part 2
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This is the second article in our series on promoting your church website. You can read the first article on our blog. While we won't dive into the technical aspects of search engine preparation in this article, please don't skim over these important steps you can take to help prepare your site. Search Engines!! The best site in all the world does your church no good if nobody can find it! I assume that since you have a website, you want people to visit it. Therefore, you cannot cut corners when it comes to submitting to search engines and indexes. While we will show you some tips to save some money, if you want your site available quickly, you may end up spending some money on promotion. But, before you do, please follow some of the tips we offer here! Before you even consider submitting your site to a search engine you must make sure it is finished. There should be no "Under Construction" logos or text anywhere. All of your links should work. There shouldn't be anything in your site that could cause a spider or a human editor to scratch their head. Finish the site! There is a lot to be said for understanding the process of search engines and directories. There is a lot to be said for understanding how spiders and robots index your pages. Many designers swear by META tags, and they are certainly important. However, the first tip I would like to give you is to design your site so that there is lots of valuable content for spiders and human editors to digest. You want to make your site so valuable that any search engine or directory would be foolish not to include your site. So, even though you are itching to start submitting your site, take a moment and relax! Go back through your website. Eliminate any broken links or "under construction" indicators. Have a friend (or even an enemy) check your site over for errors. Make sure you have a lot of original content broken up over several pages. Designing your site with excellence in mind is one of the best ways to get listed in any search engine or index.
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do,do it all for the glory of God."I Corinthians 10:31
Labels: design, promotion, Search Engine Optimization
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Take Time for Self Promotion
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Well...at least take time to promote your church's website! Seriously, if you're going to invest a lot of time in designing your site and creating great content which will help spread the Good News, you need to make sure to promote your site, so all that hard work doesn't go to waste. There are two primary means to promote your website--offline and online. Offline methods are those methods which attract the attention of someone when they're not sitting at their computer, while online methods help computer users find your site. Offline: Be sure that the people in your pews know about your website--list the address in your worship folder (bulletin) and on your church stationery. When I launched our sermon podcast, I put the following slogan on our sign in front of the church, "Download Uplifting Sermons - www.capenazarene.org." And, I've asked our local newspaper to include our web-address with our listing in the religion section. If you have any regular advertising--newspaper, posters, radio spots, sports team sponsorships--be sure to include your website there as well. Online: One of your goals in online promotion is to work to increase the number of links to your site. Not only will this increase the chance of someone clicking a link to visit your site, but it may also improve your search engine rankings. Check out other websites in your town--the local newspaper, the official town website, the chamber of commerce, the tourism directory, etc.--and ask them to include a link to your site. Encourage members of your congregation who have blogs or other personal websites to link to your church website. Maybe you and a "sister church" can exchange links--and be sure your denominational website has your web address. Promoting your site will take some time, but even if you set aside an hour once a month, you'll find that you can greatly expand the reach of your internet ministry. Next month, we'll expand our discussion on promotion by looking at simple things you can do to prepare your site for search engines and directories. Labels: design, promotion, Search Engine Optimization
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Jonathan Twitchell,
the owner of YourChurchWeb.net, is also a pastor and podcaster.
He and his wife Melody live near the coast of Maine with
their black, long-hair, bobtail cat named Kiera.
Pastor Jon believes that churches must stay abreast of new technologies
in their effort to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Through websites, podcasts, radio and television, the Church
of the 21st century has the unique opportunity to be available to all
people, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
YourChurchWeb.net was begun in 2001 based on the conviction that every
church ought to have a website, and that the technology should be as
affordable as possible.
Jonathan's brother Douglas
Twitchell joins us on this blog as an occasional guest
blogger. Douglas is the owner of Virtu Software,
and specializes in web-based programming and database development. For
an example of some of Doug's work, check out Quote Puzzler.
Doug is also very involved in ministry through his local church,
and his ministry
and devotional website.
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