Here on Church Growth Consulting we are always working on ways to help people and churches develop and expand their web ministry.  There are three big factors in having your websites and blogs do well on the search engines; time, content, and links.  We are always experimenting to see how much we can learn about the interactions between these three components and the different search engines.  We have an ongoing experiment tight now which involves seven or eight different websites.  Besides all that we are also tinkering with the impact of links from the sidebar of a site and directly from articles on the site.  It seems that sites that are linked to from articles get a bigger boost than just being linked to from the sidebar.  With that in mind we are going to track eightenn sites that we started on our sister site, Church Webmaster.  Here is a list of the sites we will be looking at:

• Cape Coral Florida Churches
• Clearwater Florida Churches
• Florida Keys Churches
• Gainesville Florida Churches
• Lakeland Florida Churches
• Ocala Florida Churches
• Fresno California Churches
• Fremont California Churches
• Oceanside California Churches
• Springfield Oregon Churches
• Hillsboro Oregon Churches
• Salem Oregon Churches
• Federal Way Washington Churches
• Flagstaff Arizona Churches
• Glendale Arizona Churches
• Scottsdale Arizona Churches
• Tempe Arizona Churches
• Gilbert Arizona Churches

A Google search for each of the sites today produced the following results:

The Cape Coral Florida Churches is currently in position twenty-three. It has never been a page one return. The Clearwater Florida Churches site is at position seven. This site has spent most of its time on page two so this is an improvement. The Florida Keys Churches has been at position one for the last three months and enjoys a steady traffic flow. The Gainesville Florida Churches site has just recently moved to page one and is in position eight. The Lakeland Florida Churches is sitting at position twenty-two. The Ocala Florida Churches is in position three and has been there for several months. It also receives a steady traffic flow. The Fresno California Churches has moved in to position three in the last month. The Fremont California Churches site is in position twelve. The Oceanside California Churches site is in position seven. The Springfield Oregon Churches site is in position three. The Hillsboro Oregon Churches site is in position eight. The Salem Oregon Churches is in position eleven. It was a solid page one return but has started to drift backwards. The Federal Way Washington Churches is doing very well at position two. The Flagstaff Arizona Churches site is in position eight. The Glendale Arizona Churches site is in position fifteen. This is after being a page one return for a long time. The Scottsdale Arizona Churches site has really fallen back, moving from page one to page six in position fifty-four. The Tempe Arizona Churches site is holding on ot position eight. The Gilbert Arizona Churches site has moved back to position 14 from a solid page one return.

We will continue to track the progress of these sites on Church Growth COnsulting  as we point some article links at each of them over the next couple of weeks and we will check back in on the progress of the sites then.