The purpose of this tutorial video is to show how a church can use Vimeo Premium to live-stream their services. We recommend using Vimeo Premium as a live streaming platform because, among many wonderful features and reliability, it allows for embedding on your website rather than sending visitors away. Churches considering Vimeo,
Online Marketing Terminology
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301 Redirect
Here is how Moz defines a 301 Redirect: A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link equity (ranking power) to the redirected page.
How to set up a YouTube channel for your church [and why you must!]
During the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, congregations have pivoted to a whole new way of “doing church.” Live streaming weekend worship experiences has become the new normal. Small groups, pastoral counseling, and children’s ministries are routinely using interactive videoconferencing platforms in lieu of personal connections. These new approaches are likely here to stay.
Don’t Wait to do Local SEO for your Church [Even though you’re closed due to COVID-19]
This season of social distancing and physical isolation from one another has presented churches with both challenges and opportunities. Pastors and other church leaders accustomed to the joys and benefits of personal contact with their congregations have been forced to re-imagine what “doing church” looks like. That’s been the big challenge.
Digital Church Growth Strategies for 2020
Introduction
Normal, everyday life in 2020 would typically prompt churches to consider the ways they could strengthen their digital presence. After all, the world today consists of people checking out establishments — whether they’re stores, restaurants, hotels, or yes, churches — online first, before ever visiting them in person. People use search engines like Google to get critical information about a business,
Optimizing Your Church Website for Google Rankbrain
What is Google Rankbrain?
Google Rankbrain was a major update to Google’s algorithm, first introduced in 2015. Google Rankbrain saw Goole incorporate machine learning for the first time within its algorithm, and until its release, the algorithm was hardcoded. Since its introduction, there have been a number of further updates to the algorithm,
The Impact of Online Citation Directories and Aggregators on Local SEO for Churches
What are Online Citation Directories and Aggregators
Online citation directories are an important part of local SEO for churches. Citation directories are online directories, where all types of businesses can list their contact details so that they are more easily found online. All citation directories allow churches to list their main contact details,
How Google Maps Fits into Local SEO for Churches
Google Maps has grown into the biggest map platform over the last number of years, which receives an incredible 63,000 searches per second (5.6 billion searches per day). When we are searching for something, we have become all too used to taking out our phones and searching for “convenience store near me” or “auto shop near me”.
How Your Church Can Use Google Trends
Google Trends can be used to help your church understand what topics people are searching for in Google so that you can create website content that plays into those searches.
Google Trends is a Google tool designed to show the most commonly searched keywords or phrases during any given time and in a given region.
Claiming Your Pastor’s Google Knowledge Panel
Well-known people, organizations, sports teams, musicians, and places have what’s known as a Google Knowledge Panel. When you search for a public figure or widely-known place, you’ll come across the Knowledge Panel on the right-hand of the screen. For example, if you type in “Paul McCartney,” the famous musician’s panel appears to the right of the search results,
How Your Church Can Use Google Alerts
What are Google Alerts?
Google Alerts is a free notification service that sends notification emails summarizing new content and search activity surrounding specific search terms to your email inbox. The great thing about this service is that once you input your specific search terms it continually works for you to keep you up to date!
Missional Marketing helps the Digital Church in This Time of Turmoil
COVID-19 instantly elevated every church website from being its “front door” to being its “only door”
[Phoenix, AZ]: Missional Marketing today announced a new menu of Church Online Digital Services. With churches being forced to move to online services during the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of pastors and church leaders are searching for solutions to serve their congregations and reach those in need.
Google Grants and Online Church: Two opportunities for NEW church growth!
COVID-19 instantly elevated your website from being your church’s “front door” to its “only door”
Many churches are presently taking stock of where they are financially and perhaps heading into cost reduction mode. This is especially true for churches who weren’t prepared with an online church in place prior to the pandemic and thus are scrambling to set it up.
Live Streaming Church with Youtube and Facebook
Learning to live stream is essential for every church today. The two most popular places to send your church service live stream are Youtube and Facebook. These social platforms were created for engagement and sharing. They’re perfect places for churches today to connect with their congregants and reach their community. The good news is that live streaming church with Youtube and Facebook has never been easier!
Church Online: A New Reality
Millions of Americans are now attending church online as Coronavirus concerns have reached a fever pitch here in the United States. Now more than ever, churches who have struggled to catch up to modern-day standards of web presence needed for any organization are scrambling to bridge the gap. Deficiencies in a church’s online presence become glaringly obvious when the option for in-person services no longer exists,
Four Ways We’re Helping Churches During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In these difficult and unsettling times, we’re helping churches navigate new obstacles to providing the hope this world so desperately needs. Our array of online tools and expertise offer church leaders creative solutions to the challenges of social distancing. As the experts in creating and growing the online presence of churches,