When people search for churches in your city does your church website appear at the top of Google, Yahoo, and Bing? No? Studies show that most people use search engines to find what they are looking for, including churches. If you aren't on the first page, you are missing out on visitors. Learn more about Church SEO at CMO University
About Church Marketing Online
Church Marketing Online is dedicated helping churches reach the people in their communities through the Internet. We do this by explaining search engine marketing for churches, discussing social media and how it can be used by churches, and facilitating conversations about other online church marketing ideas. The CMO blog is here to educate, discuss Internet evangelism and outreach, and offer church growth resources.
It’s one of our biggest fears. An angry mob with pitch forks? Nah, I can handle that. Go under the knife to remove a kidney? No problem. Jump out of a plane with only a thin piece of fabric and some rope to keep me from falling to my death? Bring it on. Invite my new neighbor to church? What are you insane? That’s just crazy.
For some reason inviting a friend or neighbor to church can be a nerve racking thing to do. Why? Well because something like this could happen…
Hosting online events is a powerful way to connect people who may never be able to meet face to face. It’s an excellent method to distribute information in a seamless process, and you may include a larger number of people than any venue in the world could hold.
Here are 4 types of online events I’ve personally led or participated in that you could try, too! Read more…
Search Engine Optimization is an important part of online church marketing. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of misinformation about SEO out there. Some of the misinformation is simply useless while other misinformation can actually harm your website in the search engines even to the point of getting your church’s website banned. Not good.
In this Church Marketing Online University update, we look at:
To look at SEO simply for “church growth” is to ignore the real importance of what we are doing. The church is working for the salvation of mankind and it’s ministries literally can save lives. The stakes are incredibly high.
The high stakes of SEO for the Kingdom of God was the topic of an article in the Christian SEO Guys inaugural post today: Read more…
Want to rank well for a certain keyword? Just tell the search engines what keywords you want to rank well for. By optimizing certain parts of your web pages, you can greatly effect your church’s website’s search rankings.
As the search engines look at each page of your website, they read the various parts of the page to try to figure out what the page is about and, thus, for what search terms to rank the page. By using your targeted keywords throughout the various parts of your web pages, you can get the search engines to list your church’s website for specific keywords. Here are…
We’ve talked a bit about hosting online events, but what about using real world events as online events? Should churches allow or even encourage members to use Facebook or Twitter in the church? Read more…
Here’s another interesting church video from Imago Dei Community which a friend of mine posted on Facebook. It’s certainly a creative way of doing the church announcements. I’m guessing this bit of creativity caused some people to pay attention to the church announcements for the first time in a long time.
Check it out!
Has your church made any creative church videos? Share them in the comments.
Online communities are a great opportunity. Getting members connected through Facebook and Twitter is great. But as much as all these online activities can help build community, real-world, in-person meeting is still very important. Read more…
