Church Websites: Design Tips and Best Practices
Church websites are notoriously behind the times in terms of web design and appearance, but yours doesn’t have to be. Here are some good design tips for church websites, to help you avoid common problems and improve the visibility, readability, and aesthetic appeal of your church website. Church Websites – Don’t Do: 1. Goofy Fonts […]
Google Places for Business
No church wants to think of itself as a “business.” In fact, we often demean mega-churches for being nothing more than businesses operating to make money (not a bad gig, if you can get it, right? I speak in jest.). However, there are professional tools available for business that work equally well for churches. In […]
The Importance of Backlinks
In the hustle and bustle of the internet, sometimes people don’t understand all of the technological terms, and thus the concept of backlinks, or links back to your website, is not understood. First, a brief overview: the “Internet” is the physical hardware, the software, and the protocols (HTTP, FTP, HTML, CSS, etc.) that make up […]
Content is Key
We’ve previously written on the subject of Search Engine Optimization, specifically how it applies to listings on KJV Churches. This time, however, I would like to approach some more generalized concepts of SEO and why you need to understand them. Don’t worry, I will keep it from getting too dry! 1. Keywords Years ago, “meta […]
Choosing a Domain Name
When a church prepares to build a website, along with all of the other tips that I have covered, a major concern is what “domain” to choose. For the technologically-backward, I’ll explain some of the terminology briefly. A Top-Level Domain, or TLD, is .com, .net, .info, .church, .directory, .us, or any of the 735+ options […]
Understanding SEO for your Listing
SEO, Search Engine Optimization, is the way that content and specific keywords are used to make the page more relevant to the target information. For instance, the KJV Churches site ranks high for relevance in KJV, Churches, Bible, and Pastor, because those words appear frequently throughout the pages of the site. How is that important for […]