Comments on: Worship Confessional Do’s and Don’ts

By: Disclaimer « man.of.depravity

Disclaimer « man.of.depravity — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:40:30 +0000

[...] my views are my own, not somebody else’s.” Then I started thinking about it and I read this by Fred McKinnon and it made a lot of sense to me. He said: “All that stuff about the disclaimer you have on [...]

By: Fred McKinnon

Fred McKinnon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:04:36 +0000

Thanks, Alastair …
Yeah, you never know how it gets indexed – and if it DOES get indexed, you just want to make sure you’ve represented it well. (me talking about buzzing off the rum cake on the stage, which of course, was only a joke, was NOT what our leadership thought was an ideal first impression for people googling our church!)

By: Alastair

Alastair — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:01:20 +0000

Great article Fred. Some very good advice there. I'm away to check the google search results now to see if any of my stuff is listed for our church....!! Alastairs last blog post..Video: Jesus Paid It All

By: Fred McKinnon

Fred McKinnon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:16:35 +0000

Thanks, Peter … maybe we’ll see some more! I hope you’ll change your RSS to allow us to see your full articles, instead of only the title – I’m missing lots of what you have to say these days because if I’m reading on my mobile, I won’t click over to try and load a full webpage, and I know many others feel the same. Just a suggestion, though – love your stuff!
Fred

By: Peter Park

Peter Park — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:43:32 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I was wondering what to do about the videos. That’s why I only did one.

By: Fred McKinnon

Fred McKinnon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:42:17 +0000

Tyler,
Thanks – you know, I really thought I was gonna get flamed pretty hard about that comment re: the disclaimer .. and maybe I still will … but glad we’re on the same page.

Fred

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:54:31 +0000

hey fred…

i totally agree with your disclaimer thought. i plan to keep mine because i do think it serves a purpose, but i fully know that my views do represent my church for some people.

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By: Fred McKinnon

Fred McKinnon — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:35:59 +0000

Hey Ben,
Yeah – I still have my disclaimer, but it doesn’t give me the kind of license you’d think.

Seems like the issue w/ Typepad was the inability to get a RSS feed ONLY for the “Worship Confessional” category. If you can make that happen, we can do that – otherwise, we’d auto-import every blog post of yours in, which wouldn’t go over so well. Oh well, you can always jump over there and post a link!

Thanks for stopping by and commenting, btw!
Fred

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:10:33 +0000

Great stuff here Fred. I agree with the video comments. I miss so many “confessionals” because I really don’t have time or patience (my weakness) sit thru a 15 min video. I usually scan through them once they’ve fully loaded.

I LOVED the “disclaimer” comment. I had one on my site since it’s enception and recently removed it.

I’d LOVE to get my confessionals posted automatically to the Worship Community Forums…for some reason it didn’t work with Typepad?

later!

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By: Fred McKinnon

Fred McKinnon — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:21:15 +0000

Billy,
Great remarks … and I agree … take advantage of the fact that those videos are going to get good rankings, and maximize that with good content that your church would be proud of.

By: Billy Chia

Billy Chia — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:17:21 +0000

Yeah Google has started putting youtube videos in the #3 ranked slot for almost any search – even if the video has relatively little link juice it still ranks highly – kinda lame, but it still happens.

It is good to note that videos have a high probability of ranking highly.

Instead of being upset at this I say game the system.

Make videos that you would WANT everyone to see. Know that videos rank artificially high so make some youtube videos for keywords that you want people to use to find your church.

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