Get Your Website Ready for Fall!
Ah, summer is in the air. The birds are chirping, the grass is growing, sounds of the neighborhood children playing, the smell of the grill, and realizing now is the time to update your church’s website. While that last one may not have been on your mind until now, summer is actually a great time to revamp your church’s website. If you have been considering redoing your church’s website, fall is a great season to launch a new version,...
Local SEO Tips For Your Church
In my previous posts about search engine optimization, we discussed the importance of SEO for your ministry as well as Google’s new mobile algorithmic update. Today I wanted to discuss more about how to optimize your church’s website for local search results better. Local SEO is still search engine optimization but more complex because of the additional information that’s needed to truly work. Given that the vast majority of churches...
Are You Ready for Mobilegeddon?
Next Tuesday is a big day for SEO professionals and really for anyone who has a website as it’s the launch of Google’s new mobile focused algorithm (or Mobilegeddon). Here are a few things your ministry website should know in advance of Mobilegeddon: Algorithm Update Focused on Mobile For years Google has been warning webmasters about optimizing their desktop sites for mobile usability. This upcoming update has been years in the...
Dropbox for Churches
Dropbox is a great cloud-based, file-sharing tool for personal use or business use. It lends itself beautifully for churches as well. What Is It? Dropbox works across multiple platforms and devices (Mac, PC, Linux, Android, iOS etc.). At a basic level, it works just like a “Documents” folder on your computer, where you drag and drop files into it. You can open files from the folder and save the updated versions. But what...
Church Tech Terms Simplified: Part 3
Welcome to the third installment of our church tech terms series. For even more terms, be sure to check out part 1 and part 2. Really Simply Syndication (RSS) RSS is a popular way of making dynamic content, such as blog posts, accessible to a variety of readers (an RSS reader is a special app or website that reads and compiles the RSS content). RSS content is written in the XML language and must be coded properly to allow the...
4 Website Essentials For Your Ministry
If your ministry does not currently have a website, you should seriously consider creating one for all the reasons outlined here. If this is your church’s first website design, you’ll want to make sure 1.0 is simple but has the essential elements present. Here are 4 content essentials you’ll want to include in your initial ministry site: About Us Section with a Mission Statement The About Us section is an essential ingredient for any...
