(If you get this post in your email I apologize, but I need to do a little SEO (search engine optimization) work for the site and writing these articles is how it happens.)
A month or so ago our Christian Book Club site started showing up as a page 1 result for a Google search of the keywords “Christian Book Club”. This was a big deal because a page 1 return will bring a lot of traffic to the site and help us to add more readers to the club. The site had been slowly moving up in the results and spent a long time on page 4 and then made the jump. It didn’t last long, however, Within a few days, not only had the site moved off of page 1, it wasn’t being returned in the first 100 pages. This is not all that uncommon with Google. It will often take newer sites out of the results for certain keywords. Fortunately, during this time we have been showing up as a page 1 result on MSN.
It is the MSN search engine that is bringing almost all of our current traffic to the site. Today, Christian Book Club started to show up again on Google. It is way back on page 21 in position 206, but at least it’s back.
Now I will begin to work on the keyword a little bit to help bring the site back to a page one result. That means I have to write the occasional article like this one to highlight the Christian Book Club keyword. Once the site has been around for a while, the natural flow of the Internet will keep it showing up in the search engines. In the beginning we have to help it a little.
Here at the Christian Book Club we are entering our last week with “Your God is Too Safe”. I have really enjoyed the book and I have enjoyed reading your comments. Thank you for your comments! This week we will be reading chapter 18 – 22 and the Epilogue. I have really gotten a lot out of the exhortations towards the spiritual disciplines. I liked how Chapter 17 talked about dead space. We seem to have so little quiet times in our lives. I did a quick overview of this weeks chapters. You will find some great stories and illustrations throughout. I look forward to your comments.
Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NIV)
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.
I hope we will all, like Habakkuk, pray and praise will all of our hearts, regardless of circumstance.
Next week we start with Max Lucado’s “Numbers of Hope 3:16″. If you don’t have your copy you need to get one. Later on this year we are going to read another book by Mark Buchanan called “Holy Wild” so I am sure we will be challenged once again. Have a blessed week!
Hello everyone. I wanted to write this little update about something that happened today on Christian Book Club. One of the ways that we will add readers to this Book Club is that they are able to find the site as the result of a search on one of the search engines. We have been getting a good result on MSN for the last month or so. Today we are on page 1 at position 2:
The granddaddy of the search engines is Google. Today for the first time we are showing up on page 1!
We are in position 6! If we stay here on page 1 we will begin to pick up readers from all over the world. That was my initial hope when I started the site. I would love to have people from all over the country and the world connecting over a good Christian book every month. Would you pray with me that God will use this site for His glory. I look forward to seeing what happens.
P.S. Don’t forget the look of the site is going to change over the next couple of days. I think you will really like the new look when it happens. Blessings!
