Archive for the ‘Other Tips’ Category
Friday, April 17th, 2009
I wrote an article a few days ago for TwiTip, a site full of great Twitter tips. In it, I show how we:
Showcase our staff Twitter accounts
Post a page with a summary of current staff tweets
Show live chat from events
Find out who else from your church is on Twitter
Tweet live ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Our church has been experimenting with Twitter (I'm @mickmel) for the last year or so, but we haven't made any hard pushes toward using it. Anthony Coppedge has just put out an e-book called The Reason Your Church Must Twitter, and now we might be getting somewhere. Since I got ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Liberty Hill Church in Canton, GA is an awesome church. I've visited for worship a few times, and they are top notch -- great preaching and excellent music. If you happen to live in the area, I highly recommend you check them out. However, they've done something with their website ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
I've just started a new blog that some of you might be interested in -- MickMel SEO.
It's focused largely on SEO and site monetization. Many of the SEO tips will be relevant for your church site, though the monetization typically won't be.
Most of my new general tips will go over ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Dean Peters at Heal Your Church Website has released his list of the "Top 10 Church Website Design Mistakes of 2007".
I question calling it a list from 2007, as some of these have been around for a while. However, the list of offenses is right on -- I completely agree ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Gospelcom has just created a neat little quiz to help you grade your website. I pretty much agree with their scoring, so I encourage you to take the test.
While our church scored pretty well, the quiz opened my eyes to a few things we're short on. I'll be fixing those ...
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
The phrase "the long tail" is becoming more and more popular. I'm going to explain what it is and why you should care.
The long tail refers to all of those keyword phrases that just get a few searches per day. For example, the phrase "church" probably gets thousands ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
In the past, I've been pushed to add many things to church sites that might be nice, but rather unnecessary. Some I was able to easily convince people that we didn't need ($5000 for "virtual tour"), others were harder to battle ("why isn't the whole site FLASH?").
Then today I found ...
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
One of the major keys to success for any website is to know how you're doing. You need to know why is visiting your website, how they found it, what pages they looked at, etc. Most web hosts include free software for that - often Webalizer or Awstats. ...
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