As a new church, how can I get my site visible on the Internet?

There are a number of things you can do to immediately get your church website visible on the internet. I am going to go through a few of them.

• Share links

  - The number one methoed everyone in the web world talks about for generating more visibility to your website is to get quality links to your site. Notice, quality links means getting a link from a trusted site that is relevant to your industry. For a church website, this would probably mean getting links from other churches or related websites.

• Article marketing

  - This is a far less known but equally powerful way of generating visibility on the Internet. Article marketing is the idea of writing relevant articles about various topics related to your church and then submitting them to free directories such as ezinearticles.com. In doing so, you can create backlinks from ezinearticles.com as well as other future links from web sites that republish your articles.

• Use Church directory listings

  - There are a number of church directories available that will provide links back to your site. New Church Center is one such listing. Signing up to have your church listed in such directories and the creating a link back to your site is a simple way to gain some added visibility

• Take advantage of social networking sites

  - Many churches are not aware of the power of social networking site. Getting your website sent to social bookmarking sites like delicious.com is a nice beginning. Even getting your church website visible on sites like digg.com, or stubleupon.com generates some added visibility and link juice. But when it comes to social networking, facebook and twitter are by far the most effective for getting topics available to friends and family in rapid fashion. New Church Center provides some simple features for gaining social networking visibility.

• Create a Church podcast

  - A final suggestion is to create a church podcast from your weekly sermons. It is a media age where people are looking to listen or see examples of your church. A podcast is an easy way to get your message out to new people all across the world in a free manner.