Name of your website?The Glorious Church of Jesus Christ - (GCOJC.ORG)
Your name?
Rev. Tina K. Platt
Your Location (city, etc)
Kent
When did you start your website and why?
I started our church website about 8 years ago and have since then, updated and revise it for the purpose of giving our visitors easier access to all of our free resources, including our online Bible Study materials, message boards, chat rooms, and many other freebies of interest...and also for the purpose of interactive online fellowship!
Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc
Our ministry website is designed to enlighten and inspire successful "kingdom living" through our free, online Bible Study, spiritual fellowship and advisement, interactive message boards, and many other "FREE" resources that prepare you for the world to come!
What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website?
Once in a while, I come across a free webmaster resource that consist of an insertable PHP code that is incaptible with our site. Other than that, I really haven't had too many problems in creating and maintaining our ministry website.
What has been the easist part of operating your website?
Adding new pages.
What was your biggest mistake?
I can not say that I have any real regrets in the upkeep of our website, because I can always try out a new feature and if it doesn't receive a good response from our website visitors, I can easily go into a page and remove it.
Who maintains your website and why?
With the help of God, I was able to successfully create our church website, even though I had no prior knowledge of how to build one, and since I am the only person in our ministry group that has this experience, I personally maintain the site myself.
Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website?
We have had very good feedback from people who have visited our site and thus sent in, various E-mails stating how easy our site was to use, as well as how helpful they found the information contained there to be. The only thing is, since we are a small, up and coming ministry group, our finances are limited and therefore, we are not able to afford a great deal of advertisements which I feel would bring a whole lot more people to our site.
What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet?
I personally feel that since we live in a generation where more and more people are taking advantage of E-commerce, perhaps because they can do it from the convenience of their own homes, that this is a projectory sign that this industry is the wave of the future!
What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
I think that overall, the Search Engine Optimization idea is a great way to compile a large amount of website info, making any website easier to load and faster to move around.
What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website?
Personally, I think Search Engines started out with the right idea because it allows potential buyers, researchers, etc. to be privy to a huge amount of information. But at the same time, because it can take up to 2 months to get listed sometimes, and because everyone now seems to only care about making money and in most instances, started charging webmasters monthly fees to move up in the search ranks...that people like us and other small business owners who have "FREE" or lost cost websites, oftentimes are overlooked because we can not afford to pay these exorbant prices in order to receive priority rankings or advertisements.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
Listing our webiste with "free" directories, and posting my own written articles on other sites for more exposure and publicity.
What method has been least successful for promoting your website?
Submitting our website to major search engines through free sites that allow you to submit your link to a lot of search engines all at once.
What would you like to see change with respect to the internet?
I would like to see more "FREE" ways to advertise our site that really pays off and drives more visitors to our site, as well as to have more "FREE" local advertisement opportunities that allow us to reach people in our local and immediate surrounding areas.
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Who is Jesus?
God
What is your website address?
The Glorious Church of Jesus Christ - (GCOJC.ORG)
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