Any advice for starting a Christian blog?

[offc]

I want to start a blog dealing with Christian current affairs etc. There are a lot of sites that offer free blogging, but I want to know what is the best way to reach the most people, or if there is a Community of christian bloggers I can join with.

 

[99percentatheism]

I want to start a blog dealing with Christian current affairs etc. There are a lot of sites that offer free blogging, but I want to know what is the best way to reach the most people, or if there is a Community of christian bloggers I can join with.

Do you study other cultures and read the opposition's positions?

You need to know the enemies of the faith as well as you do the truth.

 

[offc]

Yes I do, in fact that is going to be the entire theme of my blog

 

[ministerfortson]

Here is the best I can do. You can view my website as an example. Minister Fortson.com

Buy your own domain and hosting from GoDaddy. It only costs about $5 per month.

Next go to GoDaddy's control panel and find the free apps that they offer. Install Wordpress.

You can go to WordPress › Blog Tool and Publishing Platform to find different theme layouts. Find one that looks professional and works for you.

Set up an account at www.feedburner.com so you can start a mailing list. This is very important if you want repeat visitors. I have around 400 registered users on my website, but around 450 on my mailing list that didn't register. I would have missed those 450 without feedburner.

Get a twitter account. I have around 1060 followers on twitter.

Get Facebook. I have over 1300 friends on there. Not all of them read my site but a lot of them do.

If you have wordpress as I suggested, install the plugin "twitter tools". It's free on WordPress › Blog Tool and Publishing Platform.

This will allow you to automatically update your twitter whenever you post a new blog on your site. Then connect your twitter to facebook and twitter will update it anytime you post there. So just posting a new blog on your site will tell everyone on FB and twitter without you having to post anything at all to those two sites.

Use tags whenever you post something new. Give your posts interesting titles that explain what the post is going to be about. For Example: "As The Days of Noah Were". The title is self explanatory.

It takes time to get steady traffic going but it will come. Finally register your site on Alexa.com so they can show you your internet rank. Mine recently hit around 765k worldwide and around 130k in the US.

 

[ministerfortson]

Sorry, accidental double post.

 

[offc]

Thanks for the advice, very helpful.

 

[Torporeal]

Just do it. Half the battle is the first step.

 

[99percentatheism]

I want to start a blog dealing with Christian current affairs etc. There are a lot of sites that offer free blogging, but I want to know what is the best way to reach the most people, or if there is a Community of christian bloggers I can join with.

Study the history of the early Church and study the writings of the church fathers.

Look at Tertullian about A.D. 200 dealing with non Christians hating Christians for just being Christians. Sounds like today:

Christianity pleads no excuse for her cause, for neither does she marvel at her present position. She knows that she is a sojourner upon the earth, that amongst strangers she readily finds enemies, but that her nativity, her home, her hope, her favour, her dignity are in Heaven. One boon meantime she craves, that she be not condemned unknown. What is there in this request derogatory to the laws, supreme in their own sphere, if she be heard? Will not their power rather be extolled hereby, that they will condemn the truth even after she has been heard? Whereas if men condemn her unheard, besides the odium of an injustice done, they will be suspected, and justly, of not being altogether unconscious that they are refusing to hear that which, if they heard, they could not condemn.

This, then, is the first point we bring before you, —the injustice of your hatred of the Christian name. And the very pretext which seems to excuse this injustice, namely ignorance, both aggravates and clenches it. For what ran be more unjust than for men to hate that of which they are ignorant, even supposing it to deserve their hatred? For then only does it deserve hatred when it is ascertained whether it deserve it. But if a knowledge of the deserts be wanting, how is the justice of the hatred defended, which ought to be proved not from the mere existence of the hatred but from cognizance of the case? When, however, men hate because they are ignorant of the nature of the object of their hatred, what is there to prevent it really being of a nature such as they ought not to hate?
Thus in both ways we prove them wrong; namely, that they are ignorant in their hatred, and that in their ignorance they hate unjustly. A proof of their ignorance, which while it excuses their injustice, also condemns it, is found in the fact that all, who formerly hated because they were ignorant of the nature of what they hated, at once cease to hate as soon as they cease to be ignorant. From being such, they become Christians, particularly when they have gained full knowledge; and they begin to hate what they had been, and to profess what they had hated; and our numbers are as great as we are computed to be. The cry is that the state is beset, that the Christians are in the rural districts, in the villages, and in the islands; it is deplored as a public calamity that persons of both sexes, of every age, of every class, even people of high rank, are going over to this name.

- The Apologia of Tertullian

 

[SwordoftheLord]

Also wordpress is a good place to begin a blog..I have 3 blogs on there.. Here is my "Christian Blog" I just started it today..

Itisfinished.wordpress.com

 

[fritzc]

When starting a Christian blog remember that you will be held accountable for what you write so please read Scripture and pray daily. Pray for wisdom to help others. Don't be afraid to reach out to other more experienced bloggers to get their help and insight. Lastly, have fun and write for the glory of God. Write with God's love for you in mind. P.S get viewers from the large Christian Facebook community. http://biblereasons.com/how-to-start-a-christian-blog-or-website/

 

[tulc]

wow...2011? This zombie thread is seriously zombie!
tulc(still...those were some good points raised!)

 

[redleghunter]

wow...2011? This zombie thread is seriously zombie!
tulc(still...those were some good points raised!)

LOL I just noticed too. I hope he got his blog up and did not wait for us to post...

 

[pgp_protector]

LOL I just noticed too. I hope he got his blog up and did not wait for us to post...

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They might of got it up and running, ran it for a few years, and closed it down during the time between post on this thread.