On Church Growth Consulting we have joined up as part of a web ministry experiment to see how long it takes to get new sites established.  This site is one of seven sites involved in the process.  We think that if you follow along with the articles you can gain some significant real time insight into what it takes to get your web ministry started to help you with your church growth.

The site we have started and are reporting on is Church Marketing.  Of all the sites in the experiment, this one is starting out the slowest.  In its first month it hasn’t had any traffic and is not showing up on either Google or Yahoo.  We have so far added 3 original articles to the site.  Primarily we have been working on getting links to the site.  For this site to eventually show up on page 1 of a Google search it will have to have 4000 to 5000 links just to start.  We have been pointing some links to the site from here and we have also been building some online community with a few other sites.  We are off to a good start with 752 in coming links in the first month.  We use the link domain function on Yahoo to determine how many links a site has.

In February we will be working on adding more content to the site and we will be introducing another link building concept.  We will start the process of article marketing.  What that means is that we will write a unique article about church marketing and we will submit it to various websites and blogs to be published.  Each time a site picks up the article it will give us two links back to the site.  We will demonstrate the process and then report on the results in future articles on Church Growth Consulting.  If you are interested in reading about what is happening to all the sites in the experiment vist the Web Ministry Online site.