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Sitemaps for Ministry Websites and Blogs

Posted By on February 2, 2009

networkLet’s start at the beginning: What exactly is a Sitemap?

Here’s what Sitemaps.org says:

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.

In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites.

Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata.

Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

So, sounds good, right? For the most part, yes. But take careful note of the bottom few paragraphs which tells us more than what we probably understood first pass around:

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Tim Keller has 2 Wikis…?

Posted By on February 1, 2009

picture-1Apparently Tim Keller is cool enough to rock 2 Wikis.

The first is much more well known in the Wikipedia dbase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Keller]. The second is much less well known, but perhaps is more “interesting.”

Officially called the “unabridged” version, Tim Keller Wiki [http://www.timkeller.info/] has launched to the general public. The “other” Wiki has been considered the “abridged” version.

It was created by none other than the most famous DJ Chuang. I hope that the number of regular updates can match the supposed “ambition” behind it; he’s obviously one of the only guys updating it [see image].

It does bring up an interesting question though: Is this going to become a growing trend? Should I buy up JohnSaddington.info and start filling in the information myself (or have others do it for me)? What exactly is the “point” or reason? Quality control of content? More detailed content? What?

Would you do this?

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The Reason Your Church Must NOT Twitter

Posted By on February 1, 2009

picture-18Anthony Coppedge has recently released a new e-Book titled “The Reason Your Church Must Twitter“.

For $5 bucks, it’s a steal.

And in typical style the evangelical community at large has been singing (or tweeting) its praises.

If that’s how you roll then you can read a few of those “positive” reviews below and then you can stop reading this post; you’ll have more than enough reason to drop the Abe Lincoln:

If you’d like some of my personal thoughts about the book (and remember that they are my thoughts, not yours) then you may proceed with caution.

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