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Did you ever ask yourself if social media will work for church websites? Religion is not necessarily a subject to create a buzz, unless something happens. But the question is can a Christian website be sustained and grown from social media sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, etc?
There are many sites promoted by social media sites, some work better, some don’t work so well, but everybody tries his luck with this new buzz.
The fact is that in most of the cases, users of these social media sites are not very religious, they are more tech savvy and in many cases won’t promote and vote religious sites. I asked to promote this site using Digg and SU and the fact is that when I posted a particular website template, it was OK, but not regular articles. Those didn’t work…
Use social media sites oriented on your particular niche. They work better.
There are such social sites based on religious niche and they only promote religious websites. This kind of niche sites work better, it is common knowledge and they should be used to promote religious websites, One of these sites is blogs4god.com. The only (big) disadvantage of this site is the fact that it doesn’t have too much of a traffic so it won’t send too much traffic to your site and this is the exact reason for which you would use social media sites.
Find religious categories on general purpose social media sites
An other trick would be to go to regular visited sites and look for religious categories, if they have it. In such case, even if you won’t receive a huge traffic overnight, you may still get a decent spike.
Promote your products from an other angle
This is kind of a trick, if you want. Instead of promoting your products on the regular religious way, find an other approach. Let’s say you design Christian MySpace layouts. Instead of promoting your MySpace layouts and backgrounds as being religious, you may submit them to design categories, for ex. Promote them as free MySapce layouts, without making them Christian, just regular, all purpose. This way you can send them to more general categories like design, images, graphic, etc.
These are only a few ideas that you may find useful. I am sure you can enhance this list and come up with new ideas on how to use social media sites to promote your Christian websites.
