Need some feedback on organize media

[NoahsDad]

I work at a large church and we have an unique problem we're trying to solve.

We have a lot of media on our site. We have messages from every Sunday, plus mid-week services, and other events all on our website.

We have the messages organized into series, but would like to somehow organize these messages into topics as well, or some other way to organize them better.

We have over 5000 pieces of media! Here's a link to our current media page....does anyone have any experience working with this much content, and how we can do better?

By the way, SEO / organic traffic is secondary to helping users on our site find content better. We are also in the process of changing over our site search to google search to help give users better search results. But our end game is to help user find our content better.

Thanks for your help!

[NoahsDad]

Thanks for your help!

[danrawk]

Perhaps they are basing their code off a larger more common CMS? might be worth getting in touch and explaining your issue. This is a pretty common issue so it shouldn't be a big deal (re: using categories/sections/departments to sort, or using tagging).  Good luck!

[NoahsDad]

Thanks for the feedback, categories and tags was what I was thinking of. We actually use a custom CMS that was made by the developer who did the site...

[danrawk]

hi -

what kind of content management system (CMS) is your website using? perhaps you could categorize your videos into an additional category/department etc/

also, if your CMS uses a tagging system it may just be as simple as tagging videos relevant to a topic (i.e. "sunday meetings") and then providing a sort link.

if you use a turn key CMS, there may be a 3rd party solution that will help you plug in organization functionality.

:>)