Evangelical Outpost

Fellow blogger, JP Carter of Evangelical Outpost received yet another mention in World Magazine's BlogWatch column. This is his fourth time I think and I have to admit that I'm a little jealous. JP related that a great deal of his traffic comes from the fact that he has the word Evangelical as part of the title of his blog. That started me thinking...

I'm not going to rename my blog. Afterall, Army of One gets plenty of traffic from it's name too and it does have the advantage of being toward the beginning of the alphabet. It is tempting to rename the blog to something like The Evangelical Hermit but I guess that name's already taken.

Instead, I'm going to take the less drastic action of just mentioning the word evangelical in this post a whole bunch of times. I don't understand the google search engine well enough to know if that will make a difference but it's worth a try. I know that if you do a google search on unicef abortion that, for a while, my site was the first search result. (Now it's the fourth.) I guess I'll just have to see what happens.

I can honestly lay claim to the Evangelical moniker. I was raised in an Evangelical church -- and continue to consider myself to be an Evangelical. In fact, I think I'm more of an evangelical than JP Carter but I guess that's debateable. I should challenge him to some sort of duel to prove that he's a better evangelical than I. My first point would be, Real evangelicals don't put evangelical in their blog name. --they don't do that because they are involved in the world although not of the world and the term evangelical just separates them into their own little cloister.

As I write this, I'm coming to grips with the fact that I might have to mention the term, "Evangelical" a whole lot more in order to get anywhere with my google rankings. I might have to throw the term in, more or less, at random. For example, I might be writing about President Bush and I could say, "He sure likes to spend the government's money, but at least he's an evangelical." or I could say, "One of the less publicized facts about the military is the fact that a very large percentage of the soldiers consider themselves evangelicals." or just one more example here, "Billy Graham is considered The Pope of evangelicals."

I had another post all ready to go for Saturday. It was about some issue of great import I'm sure, but this evangelical thing was just screaming, "post me on Saturday!".

Now, we return to our regularly scheduled blogging.