BEFORE You Hire an SEO Company, Here are 6 Questions to Ask

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7 Essential Ingredients for Cooking Up Mouth-Watering Blog Posts

I’m a big fan of the Food Network show Chopped, and one thing I’ve learned is that it’s really difficult to make a great meal from terrible ingredients like Twinkies and nacho cheese in a jar. The same is true for blogging – if you want to write a great blog post, you’ve got to start with good ingredients. I love having a variety of writers contributing to Christian Web Trends! The variety of perspectives, experiences, and styles that our staff and guest bloggers have brings a richness to this blog that no single author could. That said, just because a blog post is “different” doesn’t make it good. After 7+ years of blogging, I’m convinced there are certain elements that make a blog post good. Certain ingredients, I believe every blog post should contain regardless of who is writing. I originally wrote this post as a guide for would-be Christian Web Trends guest bloggers, but if you do any blogging at all, cooking up your posts with these ingredients will take your w

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Local SEO Strategy

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How Do Search Engines Work?

Every wonder how search engines work?  Here s you chance to find out.  In the video below, I ll explain the basic concepts behind how search engines work and what some of the differences are between the various search engines.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiAHmkgGSHg Full Transcript: Hi, I’m Kurt Steinbrueck with OurChurch.com. In this video, I’m going to describe how search engines work, just give a brief overview of that. Search engines really have four basic components. The first is that they gather together a list of web pages; then they try to figure out what those web pages are about; the third thing is they find a way to allow users to submit questions or search for keywords; and finally, they produce a list of results that’s based off of what they think are the best results for that search. This is basically how all search engines work, but of course, not all search engines work the same, so it’s how do each one of these search engines do each of these four thin

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