FREE Ministry/Church Website!

Thanks brother!
I have been searching for something like this,

I am in a testing mode,,
but I think it is a great linkup from first glance

Greg,
my pastor has asked me to set up a website for our church and this gives me a chance to work on it. Thanks!

& here is a site you can link to for uploading sermons for FREE also
http://www.sermoncloud.com/

I tested it on a link relay with advancedministry & it works great,

I think sermoncloud offers 1 year of free uploading / 52 sermons; after that I am not clear on the pricing, but seems to be a great way to kickstart a web site with audio,

When doing this on the free yellow/lemon AM package you'll have to setup your 1 extra page or set it as a link (or both as the sample address below)
( Not from the sermon feature - in the free package it is not yet active,)
& I named the extra page as 'Sermons'

here is a test site address:
http://www.advancedministry.com/sites/index.cfm?i=3726

hope this helps :-)

I think the only downside to advancedministry is the lack of sermon archiving space in all packages; I hope they can find a way to beef it up a bit (maybe 1$ per sermon past listed amount or something..)
other than that, I think its a great resource

It also has tremendous tracking features integrated with Google.
In the About us area > Contact info / Pref. > scroll down on General Profile Page > Google Analytics Code, click on 'more info' link and copy and paste info from Google into box and submit,

You' ll have tracking features that are very in depth - which will help site admin. to know the sites reach in various states & countries and time spent on the site etc.....

Again: this is a great resource and very user friendly

One other thing that I noticed upon further testing, is the lack of search engine detection, if i type in the exact phrase of metatags & other phrase as they appear in the site in the search box on google, yahoo, etc.. nothing is picked up
So it seems that no traffic will be picked up unless you type the direct URL in the browser address bar,
( It's a Free site & i'm not complaining )
Just wondering if anyone has advice that could help
&
O'yea I did register the test site with yahoo & google, it didn't seem to help either.

sermonindex wrote:
It takes weeks at a time for google to properly search engine index sites, especially when they are small and not "linked" to. There is a SEO (search engine optimization) tool in the website backend I believe.

So registering the site with Google etc. probably speeds up the process a few days with the overall pickup being weeks/months,
Thanks again

BUMP... This is a tremendous resource;

(& I finally got the bugs work out in SermonCloud too- I guess it functions with a few oddities in MAC browsers )

[url=http://sites.advancedministry.com/lighthouseseagrove]TESTING SITE HERE[/url]

I am tracking the site with google analytics & it works great..

(((The only downside is the SEO,, maybe a few more days to weeks???)))

Quick Question: Would the SEO be better if a direct domain name was purchased and redirected??