I am going to be making some changes to the Church Growth Consulting site. I have just acquired the domain name www.churchgrowthconsulting.com which I will be pointing to this site. My hope is to eventually focus this site into a more Church Growth Consulting emphasis and less the software side. I am not in anyway abandoning the software side, in fact I will be expanding that part of the consulting into two new sites.
One of the new sites is Church Web Master. This site is being developed to offer a wide range of services for churches and ministries with regard to their web ministries and church websites. The site will offer set-up, start-up and maintenance plans for all things Internet.
The second site will be Web Ministry Online. We are going to utilize this site to offer a number of web ministry sites that have been developed and have the Internet advantage of time and links. We are very excited about the opportunity these changes present and we look forward to laboring with you to advance the Kingdom of God.
One of the ways at Church Growth Consulting that we believe we can help you is by having already established web ministries that you can purchase to get your web ministry started. We have 14 potential sites that we are currently aging for you to consider. The advantage of getting an established web ministry is that it will show up on Search Engine searches which will allow your web ministry to operate all over the world. Our example site “Web Ministry Online” is currently showing up in good spots for Google searches. It is showing up on page 1 position 1 for Web Ministry Online:
That is good but Web Ministry Online doesn’t get searched for all that often. Web Ministry does get searched for quite often and we are still getting a page 2 position 15 result for it:
It is possible that because of the way Google does things that these returns might stop soon. The site won’t show up for months and then it will come back. The advantage to starting with a site that has some age on it is that it will do well with the search results. All of our web ministry sites will start being available for you beginning early 2009. Stay tuned to find a web ministry that fits you.
I thought I would update you on the latest Google search results for our Web Ministry Online site that we are developing. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques are used to help your websites show up in the search results. Typically what happens is that when you first put a site on the internet it will get a fairy good initial return from Google. Then it will often disappear for months. There is something in the Google algorithm that keeps new sites away from sites that have been around for a while. For the Web Ministry Online site we would like to get a good return for the keywords web ministry. Using the WordTracker free keyword suggestion tool we find out that web ministry gets searched for 186 times a day!
If we can get a first page return for the keyword we will get a lot of traffic to the site which is the idea for our web ministry. We can have the best web sites imaginable, but if no one visits the sites, we aren’t having the impact we should have. As of today we are getting a page 2 result (this is good but I don’t expect it to last, it will go away for a while but then come back and we can apply some SEO tools to get a page 1 result):
We are at position 16. We are already returning a page 1 result for web ministry online. This might stay because there isn’t much competition for the keyword as it doesn’t get searched for very often. It is a page 1 position 1 return:
We will take all the page 1 returns we can get for our sites. We will be developing web ministry as the main keyword for this site. We will check on the results again in a month or so and see what is happening.
