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Small(ish) Updates to Make a BIG Impression on Your Church Website

Posted by Joanna Gray

Did you know that a whopping 60% of church websites are considered dead because they only get updated once a month?? Sometimes it's even less often!!? The last thing you want is a dead church website. Your website should be a living, vibrant part of your...

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Topics: Best Practices, Strategy

Don't Put These 6 Things On Your Church Website Homepage

Posted by Joanna Gray

Your church website’s homepage is probably the most important page on your whole site. For many church visitors, this could be a big first impression of your ministry—and you only get one of those. Having the best information on your church website...

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Topics: Best Practices

[Case Study] Woodbury Lutheran Built a Great New Church Website and Now Has A Strategic Plan

Posted by Joanna Gray

Woodbury Lutheran Has a Strategic Plan and Increases Online Engagement

We love it when we get the chance to brag about how great our clients are doing. And we've got a new one for you! Woodbury Lutheran Church (www.woodburylutheran.org) launched and is...

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Topics: Design, Best Practices, Featured

Why Pokémon GO Deserves a Spot On Your Church Website

Posted by Joanna Gray

If you haven’t heard yet (which would be very impressive, since it seems people are talking about it everywhere I turn), Pokémon GO has swept the world off its feet—even people who aren't into video games. More and more people are using it every single...

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Topics: Best Practices

Building a Church Website: 7 Must-Have Pages and What to Put On Them

Posted by Joanna Gray

Your church website simply cannot exist without content. But it's more than just slapping some information on your pages—you have to make sure you're creating the right content and putting it on the right pages, otherwise your website visitors can get...

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Topics: Best Practices, Featured

Your Congregation Isn't Using Your Church Website—Now What?​

Posted by Joanna Gray

Nobody likes to see something great go to waste. If you bought a $700 ski boat, you wouldn't want it to just sit in the dock to collect dust and barnacles—otherwise that hefty chunk of change would be for nothing!

Or even worse, what if it was your...

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Topics: Best Practices, Strategy

​7 Tips to Make Your Best Church Newsletter Ever

Posted by Joanna Gray

What are some of your favorite ways to keep your congregation in-the-know? Do you like to keep it old school with weekly Sunday announcements from the pulpit? Do you keep a bright and vibrant up-to-date bulletin board? Or update your Facebook page and/or...

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Topics: Best Practices, Strategy

4 Tell-Tale Signs It's Time To Build a Church Website

Posted by Joanna Gray

Many churches don't have a church website yet. Perhaps it's because they've done "fine" without it—or maybe they think their community is small and close-knit enough that information can be posted on a bulletin board or announced on Sundays.

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Topics: Best Practices, Strategy

How to Make Your Church Website Better By Building a Site Map

Posted by Joanna Gray

It’s hard to be really successful when you’re disorganized.

Whether it’s at work or at home (or both!), life can get really messy really fast if your ducks just aren’t in a row. You may lose track of time, forget when to drive the kids to practice, and...

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Topics: Best Practices, Featured

Best SEO Practices for Church Websites

Posted by Joanna Gray

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the “secret sauce” for getting church websites found online. It’s the same as SEO for businesses, you’re trying to get your website on the first page of search results for people that would benefit from meeting...

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Topics: Best Practices, Featured