The Sermon Cloud Blog

Jul 07, 2007

Sermon Cloud Weekly

Now your Amen's count for even more... We are proud to announce our new podcast, Sermon Cloud Weekly. Every Tuesday night we will publish the most popular sermon from the previous week. If the highest ranking sermon has already been featured, then we'll skip to the next in the list.

Just copy and paste this url into your favorite podcatching software:

 

http://www.sermoncloud.com/media/rssWeeklyBest.xml

 

or for iTunes, click here:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=190453444 

 


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Apr 12, 2007

The Long Tail of Sermon Cloud

Sermon Cloud is a demonstration of the power of the Long Tail.   In our case, the top 10 search terms do not represent even 1% of our total traffic.  I looked at a recent 30,000 search terms that people searched to come to the site and and only 3 had been searched over 100 times.  Here are the top searches that led people to Sermon Cloud:

sermon cloud
sermon
resurrection sermon
resurrection sermons
john 2:1-11
online sermons
tim keller podcast
sermoncloud
sermons on the resurrection
sermons online
sermons on prayer
1 john 3:11-24
sermons on esther
sermons on sin
youth sermons
sermons on hope
sermons on joy
sermons on forgiveness
sermons on unity
sermons on praise
sermons on love


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Nov 20, 2006

Sermon Zeitgeist

One of the cool things about Sermon Cloud is it gives you a sort of sermon zeitgeist. Because Sermon Cloud is fairly new, it has taken a bit to find out what people are preaching on and who are the popular preachers. Here are some tidbits:

1) Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, has the most popular sermon (in terms of downloads) at Sermon Cloud. He preached Incarnational Gospel at his home church Imago Dei. It has been downloaded over 1,000 times.

2) Rick McKinley's pastor of Imago Dei preached Inconvenient Christianity, the most 'amened' sermon just edging Noel Heikkinen by one 'amen'.

2) The most popular preacher in terms of people 'searching' is Tim Keller from Redeemer NY.

3) You can view where all the churches are and find out who is preaching in your home town using our Church/Preacher Map page.

4) In light of the Ted Haggard scandal, only one sermon (Check Your Posture: A Message Regarding Ted Haggard)had his name in the title or meta tags. But during that week this was the most popular sermon.

Do your own zeitgeist. Go to the Sermon 'Search' page and filter by downloads or go to view the sermons with the most amens .

 


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Nov 03, 2006

Welcome to Sermon Cloud

Welcome to Sermon Cloud! It's been a great beginning as we've launched this new service in September. Since we've launched, Sermon Cloud has had tens-of-thousands of visitors. Hundreds of churches are now using Sermon Cloud to manage their sermon audio and podcasts. In fact we already have over 1,200 sermons on the site. That is a rapid pace. We're excited that you have found us and hope to offer additional services and interaction to provide the best online sermon resource to our users. From all of us at Monk Development and the Ekklesia 360 team, thanks for being a part of this community.

 


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