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4 Ways Church’s Can Take Advantage Of Bing’s New Facebook Features

Earlier this week Bing announced that they were rolling out some great new features which integrate Facebook into their search results. These features influence search results, show you your Facebook friends “liked” pages, provide for Facebook interactions with your friends while searching. You can read more about the features here, “Bing and Facebook Launch New Integration Revolutionizing Search“.

While there are a lot of cool features Bing has announced, there are something that can really benefit churches greatly. Here’s how… Read More

Final Thoughts on Link Building for Churches

The purpose of your church’s website is to have an online presence for your ministry. Link building is a way to increase that online presence, to reach more people, and expand your ministry. If you aren’t pursuing search engine optimization, including a link building strategy, you are not utilizing your church’s website to it’s fullest. In fact, you may only be use a fraction of it’s potential. Read More

The Top 7 Reasons Your Church Shouldn’t Link Build

There are a lot of churches that don’t do anything to build links for their website. They all have great reasons…or so they think. But I’d suggest that link building is worth doing for every church. So, here are 7 of the top reasons why churches think they shouldn’t be link building and why those reasons may not be accurate. Read More

5 Things You Need to Know About Link Building

All links are NOT created equal. There are many aspects to links that affect the value (or lack there of) of any particular link. We’ve already talked about link authority and reputation. In this article we’ll take a look at some other basic facts of link building that you should be aware of as you develop your link building strategy. Read More

5 Link Building Strategies to Avoid

Do a search on link building and you’ll find hundreds of sites claiming they have the best link building strategy that can get you a bizillion links in 24 hrs and have you ranking for anything you want. Their all scams. There are plenty of good, natural ways to build links, but here are 5 link building strategies to avoid: Read More

The Top 10 Ways For Churches To Get Links

There are lots of ways to get inbound links to your church’s website. Below is a list of link building strategies to get you started. It certainly isn’t an exhaustive list, but it can get you moving in the right direction and help give you ideas. Read More

Planning The Best Church Link Building Strategy Ever!

One of the most asked questions I see related to search marketing is…

What is the Best Link Building Strategy?

There are a lot of different strategies for link building. The reality is that there really isn’t a single, ultimate link building strategy. For some, one strategy will work better than others depending on your personality and the amount of time you put into the link building. Also, as time goes on, different strategies tend to trend as being more or less effective. Some strategies work well for a while and then general attitude of people starts to change and so your strategy has to change.

Planning Your Church’s Link Building Strategy: Read More

CMO University Update: Link Building for Church Marketing

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 or having church ministries targeting competitive keywords, like “unplanned pregnancy”, 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:

“Link Building for Church Marketing”

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Google is Slipping and Church Marketing is Shifting

In an article on the Christian SEO Guys blog, “Bing to Dethrone Google?“,I reported on the ongoing shift in the search engine market from Google to Bing. According to Experian’s Hitwise.com, in less than one year Bing’s market share has increased by nearly 27% while Google’s share has decreased by nearly 11%.

So, what does that have to do with church marketing? Read More

CMO University Update: Two Final Tips on Church SEO

Good SEO can be the difference between a website succeeding in it’s mission or failing. It can be the difference between a person visiting your church or going somewhere else, possibly even a church which is not really Christian. In the Church Marketing Online University Updates on on-page search engine optimization, here are two final tips on church seo: Read More

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