| Most church websites are lame. Why? While 65% of | | | | regular Church website, while reaping all the benefits a |
| Churches now have church websites, most of these | | | | blog (see below) brings to the table. |
| church websites drive little to no visitors to their | | | | Wordpress has hundreds and hundreds of free |
| churches. This is a missed opportunity, since the vast | | | | templates (they call them themes) to choose from for |
| majority of people under 35 go to the internet not the | | | | making your church website have the exact look and |
| Yellow Pages FIRST when looking for a church. So | | | | feel you want. Here is one of my favorite Wordpress |
| what good is having a church website if only the | | | | church website themes . Think of the church website |
| pastor and the board surfs to it? I think you no the | | | | possibilities |
| answer to that one. | | | | Wordpress Makes Your Church Website Search |
| The problem is that most church websites are not | | | | Engine Optimized Out of the Box |
| search engine friendly. And if your church website is | | | | That's right, that means way better search engine |
| not listed high in places like Google and Yahoo, you will | | | | rankings...which means...you got it more visitors coming |
| get no traffic. And no traffic means no guests | | | | to your church website...which means more guests at |
| checking out your church website, let alone your | | | | your services. You don't need to know ANYTHING |
| church. | | | | about how search engines work because Wordpress |
| Church Websites Solutions | | | | "pings" the search engines automatically for you, letting |
| The solution to the "church website blues" is to get | | | | them know you have new content and RSS feeds for |
| your website search engine optimized (SEO) so that | | | | them to index. Furthermore, instead of waiting weeks |
| seekers can actually find your church web site when | | | | and even months for the search engines spiders from |
| do a search for a place of worship in your area. How | | | | Yahoo and Google to index your static church website |
| do you do this? The answer is simple. Use a blog like | | | | pages, your blog will get indexed in a matter of a few |
| Wordpress to run your church website. Based on our | | | | days. |
| own own personal experiences as a Christian | | | | A Church Website Blog will bring Your Church Into the |
| webmaster and church planter, I have had several | | | | 21st Century |
| blogging websites (including this one) using blogging | | | | Most church websites out there just ooze old...and |
| tools like Wordpress that have had tremendous | | | | irrelevant. Blogs are the here and now, and using one |
| success attracting and keeping guests. Isn't that what | | | | as a church website will convey newness, hipness and |
| a church website should be all about? Below we list | | | | relevancy to the young families, the Gen X and Gen Y |
| several great reasons (I could have listed more) why a | | | | types you should be targeting if you want to reach |
| church should use a blog format for its church website | | | | people for Jesus AND see your church to grow. OK, I |
| . | | | | promised I wouldn't preach. |
| Top Reasons to Run Wordpress for Your Church | | | | Easily Put Podcasts and Video on Your Church |
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| Wordpress Comes Free with Many Inexpensive | | | | Wordpress plugins like PodPress make it a snap to put |
| Affordable Web Hosting Packages | | | | all kinds of multi-media on your church website without |
| Why spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars | | | | any added costs and very little knowledge needed. |
| on Church Website designs when you have at your | | | | Imagine having all your messages neatly indexed, |
| fingertip a blogging platform like this? Most all of the | | | | categorized and online for all to enjoy. I actually have a |
| cheap web hosting providers (average cost between | | | | few podcasts right here on my site. Believe me, it's not |
| $4 and $8 dollars per month) give you access to | | | | rocket science. If I can do it...a monkey can as well :) |
| Wordpress through Fantastico in their control panels. | | | | Using multimedia like a podcasts you will geometrically |
| Please think twice before signing a web hosting | | | | grow your ministry reach. On my other Christian |
| contract with a Christian web hosting company. | | | | outreach site (see our about page) that's less than 2 |
| It's Easy to Build a Church WebSite with NO HTML or | | | | years old, I already reach 90,000 people a month. Are |
| PHP knowledge Needed | | | | we excited yet? |
| Not a techie? No problem because it's a one click | | | | How to Get the Blogging Your Church Website |
| installation. Writing content and putting in images is just | | | | Actually all you need to do is shop around for and |
| like using your old fashioned word processor. If you | | | | affordable and reliable web hosting company that has |
| need help with your blogging church website, there are | | | | blogging tools like Wordpress. Below are several of |
| tons of Wordpress tutorials and an amazing support | | | | the best we have reviewed. Good luck, and if you |
| forum as well. | | | | have any questions at feel free to contact us. |
| The really cool thing about WP is that it functions as a | | | | Because we consider this a ministry, we will personally |
| content management system (CMS), which simply | | | | contact at no charge each Christian webmaster |
| means that you can give it the appearance of a | | | | seeking help. |