Tracking and Reporting Your Church Marketing

Author: Kurt  //  Category: CMO University, website analytics

You’ve performed keyword research. You optimized your website for the search engines. You have even started a link building campaign to gain untold numbers of relevant, inbound links. So, you’re done right? Wrong. It’s time to see the effects of all this work, re-evaluate the optimization, and plan your next move. Read more…

Link Building for Church Marketing

Author: Kurt  //  Category: CMO University, church marketing ideas, church websites, search engines

If optimizing a website is like giving your car a tune up, link building is like putting in a bigger engine. Simply put, there are going to be keywords that are out of your reach if all you do is on-page optimization, especially if your church is in a large city. Link building is needed to bring those keywords into your grasp. Links are like votes for your website. The more votes your website gets, the more important the search engines think your site is. That causes then to move you up in the search results for the keywords you are targeting and can get you ranking well for keywords you can’t currently rank well for. So, what is link building and how do you do it? Read on my friend. Read more…

On-Page Optimization

Author: Kurt  //  Category: CMO University, church marketing ideas, search engines

Are the pages of your website optimized for the search engines? On-page optimization is the essence of search engine optimization and the key to targeting the keywords that can make your website a success. Read more…

Keyword Research

Author: Kurt  //  Category: CMO University, Local search, search engines

Like a foundation for a building, there is one aspect of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that is more important than any other. Without this foundation, you may be wasting all your time and resources. Proper keyword research should be the basis of your optimization.

Why is Keyword Research Critical? Read more…

The 5 Apple Pickers - A Search Engine Marketing Parable

Author: Paul Steinbrueck  //  Category: CMO University, search engines, website analytics

Apple TreeAt a small college a group of incoming freshmen marketing majors gathered for their first class. As the wise, old Professor of Search Engine Marketing made his way to the front of the room, one of the students asked him, “Professor, what is SEO?”

The professor looked over the classroom full of young students and replied, “Let me tell you a story…” Read more…