Starting a Christian Blog - Part 5

In this series of articles on Christian Blog we have been giving some pointers on how to start a Christian Blog. We have covered the basics of domain names, web hosting, plugins, widgets, and themes. The most important component of a good blog, however, is good content. You need to write articles that people will want to read and they have to be good enough that people will return to your site to see what you have written lately. I have a couple of Christian Blogs that get a steady flow of repeat readers that you can check out as examples of what I am talking about.

God’s Daytimer (www.Godsdaytimer.com) is a site where I post a short devotional about four times a week. Much of the traffic on this site is repeat traffic. They often sign up for the RSS subscription on the site. The Internet Pastor (www.internetpastoronline.com) is another site I have that gets a fair amount of traffic. The traffic on this site often comes from the search engines when people are searching for a pastor online.

It will take time and some work to start developing traffic on your Christian blog. Starting a blog and writing one or two articles and then wondering where the people are isn’t going to work. You have to start posting good articles once or twice a week, even if no one is reading them. Then you need to start reading similar blogs and commenting on the articles on those sites (leave positive comments or don’t comment at all). If you write well thought out comments, you will get some traffic from people who are reading that site to see what kind of site you have. If you have good content, they will return to your site and hopefully they will link to it as well.

If you have any questions about blogging or about how to set up your Christian blog to get noticed by the search engines we would be happy to try and help you. You can use the Contact page or you can Skype me and I would be happy to spend a few minutes giving you some pointers (If you don’t have skype, it is a free program that allows you to video call over the Internet to other people with Skype. All you need is a web cam, a microphone and the free Skype software which you can download on the right hand side of this site)