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Growing Your Church – How To Make Your Website Irresistible to Visitors

Thomas Costello Web 1 Comment

Growing your church might seem like an impossible task, but it could become a little easier with the right website. The key is to make that website completely irresistible to visitors. Your website has the power to inform, engage and turn visitors into life long members. However, if your website turns visitors away, they’ll never even try your church. All it takes is a little effort to turn any church site into something engaging and irresistible. Avoid Driving Visitors Away Obviously, the first step is to avoid driving visitors away to begin with. We covered church website mistakes back in …

8 church SEO best practices to get your church found in search

8 Church SEO Best Practices to Get Your Church Found in Search

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You already have a church website, but the only visitors are your church members. Your website just isn’t attracting the traffic you expected. It’s a common problem, but one that is usually fixed through better church SEO practices. The idea is to make sure your church comes up on the first page of search results when someone looks for churches in a specific area. With just a little work, you can draw in visitors to your church’s website naturally. This leads to your ultimate goal – more visitors to your church. 1. Add Location Details When someone is looking for …

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How To Make Your Church’s Technology Engaging to Millennials

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It’s a problem that churches face every day – millennials are leaving and not coming back. This disturbing trend comes from millennials wanting something different from their church. Their lifestyles are different now and they want to be part of a community that reflects those differences. While many churches try to appeal to millennials with fun technology, your church’s technology needs to be engaging to millennials. Luckily, that’s not nearly as difficult as you might think. Keep Technology Relevant Tech trends change rapidly and millennials pay close attention to trends. Why else would they stand outside in the pouring rain …

9 important church statistics for 2017

9 Important Church Statistics For 2017

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Sometimes it’s hard to see why church attendance is dropping or what things need to change to appeal to those still trying to find their faith. When you look at church statistics, don’t get discouraged. Yes, the numbers might make you want to throw up your hands and leave it all in God’s hands, but they just prove that the world hasn’t given up on having faith just yet. As long as millions are attending church, even if it’s not every Sunday, there’s hope. Use these statistics to help breathe life back into your church family and continue engaging members …

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How Your Website Can Turn Church Visitors Into Engaged Members

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Your church website isn’t just a static page with a picture of your church and worship hours. It can be one of the most powerful tools you have in turning those first time and sporadic church visitors into highly engaged members. It’s always difficult to know exactly what visitors are looking for in a church. One or two visits isn’t nearly enough for them to get to know the family and community they could be joining. With so many people relying on the Internet to help them make important decisions, including where to worship, it’s time to let your website …

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7 Ways Your Church Website Can Better Connect You to Your Members

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A church doesn’t have to limit how often it connects to its members, but it’s impossible for most churches to have someone available 24/7. Connecting with members means being more available and we know that you want to be there for your church family. The solution to not only giving members more of what they need, but growing a church, is to have an active website. Taking your church online might seem traditional, but the better you stay in contact with your members, even on days when there isn’t a service or event, the more your church will grow and …

Church Website Mistakes

7 Church Website Mistakes That Scare Visitors Away

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At this point, we all know that every church needs a website.  It is the first impression of nearly everyone who visits your church. If we really believe it’s a first impression for most visitors, we have to be careful not to fall into some of the most common church website mistakes. Studies show that you have less than three seconds to make a first impression online.  Churches today must be careful to not drive visitors away by making some of the following mistakes. Church Website Mistake #1 – Pastor Focused Homepage This is the homepage where the main image is a …

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Church Advertising Begins & Ends with Your Website

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Advertising is simply telling people who you are and what you have to offer that they need.  Churches have what everyone needs, Jesus.  Rest assured that your “product” is the absolute best.  The world is in need of Jesus.  How do they find him?  Through his people and the local church.  People need to be able to find your church or even just be made aware that you are there and have something they may want/need.  This is where Church Advertising comes in.  Every type of advertising that you do in our modern age should and will direct people to …

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7 Church Attendance Statistics That Should Drive You To Prayer

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It is often easy in our lives and ministries to become like the ostrich, with our head in the proverbial sand.  We are busy.  There are so many people and things that need our attention.  In an effort to conserve our energy and complete the tasks we must do we can often go into maintenance mode.  Doing what we need to do to get the job done.  The Sunday’s come week in and week out.  We check with our In an effort to conserve our energy and complete the tasks we must do we can often go into maintenance mode. …

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How to Choose Compelling Church Website Photography

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Let’s talk about Church Website Photography. More specifically, Compelling Church Website Photography! So everyone has heard the saying that “a picture is worth a thousand words”. This saying has been around forever and is definitely over-used. However I believe it holds true even more now than in years past. Why? A recent study shows that people on average across the Internet, TV, Newspapers, Magazines, and Radio are hit with 360 marketing messages daily! So this means you have to visually stand out big time to get people’s attention these days with whatever it is you want them to know about you. …