Wisdom & Insight for Your WebsiteWhy Add Highlights?
How Highlights improve the look and function of each page on your church website.
 Each page, news item, and event on your iMinistries website has five "slots" to insert highlights. Highlights are other pages, blog entries, news, events, or content that you select as a highlight when you create it. To maximize your ministry website's potential, it is important to fill each page with as many relevant highlights as you can.
Look
Although you may have heard that empty space is a good way to break up text on a page, allowing too much space can make your site look empty and unimportant. Each inch of space is valuable real estate--don't waste it by forgetting to add highlights.
When creating a page and selecting it to be a highlight, add a thumbnail. Thumbnails provide you a chance to be make your site pop by breaking up text with images (people love images!).
Be creative. Choose a theme for your thumbnails and run with it. Have all your thumbnails feature:
- People from your ministry
- A consistent color scheme
- Christian imagery (a Christmas star, open Bibles, and empty tombs)
- A similar look-and-feel
- Or a mixture of all
Function
Highlights help your users find related information as they explore your website–content they might not otherwise have found. For example, on your About Us page, highlight your Contact Us page so visitors can easily navigate there to send you a comment or question. On an event that is located at your camp, highlight a page with camp directions and information. On a blog entry that hosts your sermon audio, highlight sermon notes for users to follow along.
Using highlights as links to other content on your ministry website makes it easier to keep your menu clutter-free. Partnering highlights with hyperlinks, resource pages, and widgets keeps you from adding every page into your menu. Your users will thank you for this ease in navigation. Not necessarily in verbal (or e-mailed) praise, but definitely in repeat visits to your site.
OTHER RESOURCES ON HIGHLIGHTS
What Is A Highlight? – iMinistries Support Document
Adding Highlights (Video) – iMinistries Support Video
What is a Thumbnail? – iMinistries Support Document
 Your Church Media: Widgets
What is a Widget?
 A widget is a “chunk” of HTML code which commands content to display on a page. The great thing about a widget is you don’t have to know anything about HTML or writing code to utilize it. You just plug in your information and the Web site embeds content for you.
What Can I Embed?
With widgets you can embed (click the links for examples):
Blogs
Post entries from any of your ministry website's blogs on any page.
Blog entries posted on a website's homepage
News and Events
Add a widget to your homepage to display your website's latest news and events. Or add a widget to a page or blog entry listing a specific ministry's news and events.
News and events embedded into a website's homepage
Photo Galleries
Show off your ministry website's photos on any page with a gallery slide show.
Photo gallery embedded in a news item on our demo website
Products
Embed your site's products (CDs, T-shirts, DVDs, etc.) inside news items or blog entries.
Products embedded in a blog entry on our demo website
Flickr Slideshows
Incorporate your Flickr photos, sets, and collections into your iMinistries website.
Flickr slideshows embedded in a ministry website page
Twitter Feeds
Display your most recent tweets in an ad and show it site-wide. Or embed it in any page. You can limit the number of tweets shown and add a custom heading ("Pastor Dave's Tweets").
Twitter feed embedded in an ad on a ministry website's homepage
Interactive Google Maps
Enter your ministry location's address to add a Google map on any page (About Us, Contact Us, Ministry Information). Users can zoom in and out and get directions to and from this location, making it easier for visitors to find you.
Interactive Google map embedded into a ministry website's "Service Times & Directions" page
YouTube and Vimeo Videos
Gone are the days of pasting embed codes into your HTML editor. With widgets, just paste your ministry video's ID (found in your URL) and embed vidoes on any page. You control the size of your video, making it possible to embed them into ads.
Vimeo videos embedded into a ministry website's "Videos" page
MP3 Players
Turn any page into a jukebox, a spot for your latest sermons, or a host for your new Podcast. Just upload your MP3 file through Content Administration and paste its URL into this widget and add anywhere.
MP3s embedded into a ministry website page
How do I use the Widget Feature on my iMinistries Site?
You can embed widgets on any page that uses an Editor (news, events, blog entries, pages, ministry descriptions, ads, etc.). Here are the steps to adding a widget:
- Create or edit the desired page or item.
- Click on the widget button in the editor toolbar.
- Select the type of widget you want to embed.
- Fill in your information, choose your preferences, upload any files (MP3), and click Add.
- Save your page or item. To preview the widget, click on the green arrow next to the item in Administration.
MORE INFORMATION ON WIDGETS
"Web widget" – Wikipedia.org
Widgets in Action – iMinistries.org
 Your Church Media: VideoThe modern website visitor is one with a short attention span. They want information, and they want it immediately. They want news, and they want it the second it occurs. And the less effort they have to put forth, the better.
Video is a great medium for spreading information, giving updates, and sharing stories. It engages the viewer without requiring anything on their end but the ability to push "play" and watch. Video combines the power of images with the authority of audio.
 Embedding Video with YouTube and Vimeo
The best way to add
streaming video content to your website is by uploading it to
to a video hosting site like YouTube or Vimeo and embedding it into your desired page. Each video posted on these sites displays an embedding code. By copying this code and pasting it onto your site, you can add video to any page.
Even easier, you can add your video by using our Widget feature. Just edit or create your page, click the Widget button, type in your video's location, and add.
YouTube or Vimeo?
Even though YouTube is more popular, we suggest using Vimeo to host your ministry's videos. Why?
- YouTube limits uploading videos 10 minutes or less (unless you pay extra). Vimeo only limits you in amount of Mb of video uploaded per week.
- Vimeo allows you to choose the videos your video links to. YouTube gives you the option to turn off the links, but only on the embedded video. The video on YouTube still displays links to random videos (some may have inappropriate content).
- Vimeo allows you to password protect your videos to limit its viewability.
- With Vimeo, you can limit which sites can embed your videos, limiting them from being posted on other sites.
- You can create "Channels" for your Vimeo videos for better organization.
- Your Vimeo videos or channels can be grouped into a slide show or badge widget for easy access to your video library.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ADDING VIDEO
Vimeo Basics - Vimeo.com
"Upload a Video" Tutorial - Vimeo.com
YouTube Help Center - YouTube.com
"Embedding Video" Tutorial - iMinistries Support Video
 Your Church Media: PodcastingIn this communication age, it is important to utilize as many ways as possible to reach your audience. In a previous blog entry, we explained how to find your audience and your writing voice. Through Podcasting your sermons and lessons, you can use your actual voice to reach a wider audience.
What Is a Podcast?
 Podcasting is a standardized way to distribute audio files to Internet users, for downloading and listening offline (through a program like iTunes) or listening from a host site online. Podcasting is done by placing files on a
Web server and using an RSS feed to describe each file. On your
iMinistries site, podcasting is simplified using the Blog functionality. A Podcast on your site is a blog entry with an audio file embedded within the entry. Since all blogs on
your site automatically offer an RSS feed, your blog becomes a Podcast
when you add audio files to the entry.
This all sounds more complicated than it really is. On an iMinistries site, all you have to do is create a blog, add entries, and upload your audio file with each entry.
Creating a Podcast
- Create a Blog (see How to Create a Blog)
- Create a Blog Entry
- Upload an mp3 file as an enclosure by browsing to the file on your computer.
- Visit the blog page (you can use the open
 to get to the blog page when you are on the actual Blog Entry page).
- Locate and click the RSS Feed link. It looks like a larger version of this :
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If you don't see it on your page, you haven't add the RSS Feed panel to your Blog.
- Your browser should show some XML code (language used to
communicate your Podcast). Find the URL in the address bar of your
browser. This is the address of your Podcast.
After adding your audio file to a blog entry, you can add your sermon or lesson to the iTunes directory to reach even more people. Those visiting the iTunes Store can search and download your Podcast without visiting your site.
 Adding Your Podcast to iTunes Podcast Directory
- If you have iTunes installed, you may simply follow this link and skip to step 5.
- Open iTunes (if you do not have it installed already, visit Apple's website for a free download)
- Visit iTunes Music Store
- Click Podcasts
- Click Submit a Podcast
- Paste your the address of your podcast into the box and follow all the steps
MORE INFO/HELP ON PODCASTING
How Do I Create A Podcast? - iMinistries Help System
Making a Podcast - Apple.com
FAQs: For Podcast Makers - Apple.com
 What's the Difference (Between Church Web Content Management Systems)
 There are many ways for a growing church to put together a website—even a high-quality website. You might consider:
- Find talented web designers in your church to create a website for you.
- Find someone technical within your church to set up one of the open source content management systems available.
- Hire a web designer or web master to create and maintain your website.
- Contract with a web design firm to design a template and pages.
- Use a hosted content management system like iMinistries
- Use a combination of a few of these.
We’ve already discussed why a hosted church content management system (CMS) is the right choice for most churches in a previous post. However, we’re aware that there’s a choice between web CMSs. Why choose iMinistries over other CMSs? Why choose us over one of the more established systems available like Joomla or Drupal? Why choose us over the other church-specific web CMSs?
Should your decision be based on a feature comparison, the available designs, ease of use, available support or the cost?
The answer is "yes," you need to balance all of these. The system you choose should:
- Have the features you need.
- Be able to be designed to fit your image.
- Be easy enough to use that everyone in your organization can use it.
- Be supported by people who care about your mission.
- Be one that you can afford to maintain long term.
Why choose iMinistries? Because our goal is to strike the perfect balance between these priorities. If you explore us, we believe you will find that we’ve done just that. iMinistries provides:
- A full set of features needed by churches and ministries and then some. Powerful enough that Steve, your technical volunteer, will be impressed and able to help you get the most out of the system.
- The flexibility to implement a wide array of designs, including several professional designs available for free. Flexible enough to accommodate even Nate, your fussy volunteer designer.
- A unified user experience designed with church users in mind. Simple enough to be used by Carol in the front office.
- Free support from people whose passion is to help ministries reach people for Christ and raise up His disciples. Our team will help you get your site up and running quickly and keep it running. Support enough to keep Joe, your executive pastor, happy with the time line and the up-time.
- Packages priced to fit your ministry. Affordable enough that Fred, head of your finance committee, will be a fan for life.
In all honesty, we don’t strive to be the best in any one of these areas—we strive to balance them the best. We think you will agree—so will Steve, Nate, Carol, Joe and Fred. Why not give us a try and find out?
 Better Web Writing, Part 3: I Like Your Style  Now that you have found your voice and learned how to beautify your text, it's important to set some rules for your content. You wouldn't teach your child to speak, dress them in their Sunday best, and then let them run amok. You shouldn't do the same to your content.
Creating rules for yourself (and others who create content) helps to guide your content in the right direction. Like bumpers on a bowling lane, content rules help keep you from throwing gutter balls. Take the steps below to set up your guidelines.
Incorporate links into the text.
Avoid making links out of just "click here." Instead, build the links into a sentence. So, if I wanted you to check out a previous blog entry, I would add a link to the underlined text in this sentence.
Be consistent.
Pick a style and go with it. Not only
will this promote a clean, uniform feel on your site, but it also improves its look.
There are many established styles (AP, Chicago, MLA, APA). But you don't have to use one of these. You can create your own by making stylistic choices and utilizing that style throughout your content. What will you capitalize or abbreviate? What will you call reoccurring events? What will you name your ministries?
Here are a few decisions to get you started:
- 9:00 A.M. or 9 a.m. or 9am?
- Colorado or Colo. or CO?
- October 25 or Oct. 25th
- 5th Graders or fifth grade students?
- Children's Ministry: Jesus and Me or Kid's Club?
- small groups or Small Groups?
- address your visitors as "loved
ones" or "friends"?
- New Believers Class or First Steps or Theology 101?
Avoid Churchisms.
Keep your articles free of overused, ambiguous words and phrases that have become like Christian jargon. Think of something fresh that visitors, churched and un-churched, easily understand. A good rule of thumb to use: if you have to explain it, get rid of it.
Start by purging your content of the following:
- "food, friends,
and fellowship"
- "come alongside"
- "lift up" as "in prayer" or "in song"
- "God put it on my heart"
- big theological words like: "dispensationalism," "parousia," and "transubstantiation"
SOURCES FOR THIS BLOG/FURTHER READING ON WRITING FOR THE WEB
The 10 Commandments of Internet Writing: Web Pro News
Better Writing for the Internet: Ask Oxford
50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills: Smashing Magazine
Copywriting 101: Copyblogger
 Better Web Writing, Part 2: Words As Pictures
Writing Compelling Content for Your Church Website.
 There's a saying that "pictures are worth a thousand words." On the Web, because attention spans are so brief and space is so important, words have to be pictures. Confused? Use the advice below to start crafting your text into word-pictures.
Care how it looks.
Web content is a visual medium. Visitors like text that looks good on
the page. If a page is not attractive, why would
someone stay on that page, let alone read its content? If the text is distracting, visitors move on without reading what you have to say.
Use white space to break up chunks of text to allow the
reader to scan the content. Use lists, bullet points, and tables to organize your blocks of text. Use bold and italics to make important words, phrases, and headings stand out. Limit the use of all caps and
exclamation points. Include images whenever possible.
Instead of this...
Help us serve those in our community by providing for their needs and DONATE TO OUR FOOD PANTRY!!
Our current needs include: cereal, instant potatoes, canned vegetables, baby formula, and pasta.
Please help us by dropping off your boxes or bags of NON-PERISHABLE foods in the Food Pantry bins in the lobby!
Do this...
Help us serve those in our community by providing for their needs. Donate to our Food Pantry.
 Our current needs include:
- cereal
- instant potatoes
- canned vegetables
- baby formula
- pasta
Drop off your boxes or bags of non-perishable foods in the Food Pantry bins in the lobby.
Shorter the better.
Use short, choppy sentences. Chunk these sentences together into brief
paragraphs of 2-3 sentences so as not to intimidate the reader with
long blocks of text.
Like a newspaper article, answer all the important questions at the
beginning (who, what, when, where, why, and how) and explain in more
detail as the article continues. Cut out unnecessary information,
adjectives, and adverbs. Adhere to the "Keep it Simple" attitude.
Example of short and choppy:
Calvary Baptist Student Ministries:
Impact is our ministry for students in High School. Impact students are committed to a single purpose: living for the glory of God. They meet
three times a month in home groups and at a large
group meeting twice per month.
Xtreme for Christ is our ministry for students in Junior High. They meet each Thursday at 7:00 P.M. in the Youth Room. Each week is
filled with small discussion groups, worship, and hang out time.
Jesus And Me (JAM) is our Children's Ministry. JAM meets every Sunday morning and evening during our main worship services. Each child is given a Bible-based lesson, activity, and memory verse every week.
 Better Web Writing, Part 1: Finding Your Voice
Writing Compelling Content for Your Church Website.
 Visitors will come to your church website because of flashy imagery, but they'll keep coming back for fresh, well written content. Writing for the Web is different than writing for other mediums. Web visitors have shorter attention spans than any other medium, so it is important to know how to write to keep their attention as long as possible and keep them coming back for more.
Over the next several blogs, we will give you tips for improving your Web writing. The first step to becoming a better Web writer is finding and developing your writing "voice." We've used the analogy in a previous blog entry that your church website is like a conversation. Your voice, like your speaking voice, is the tone projected by the words you use and how you use them.
Here are three keys to developing your voice:
Know your audience.
Before you begin crafting the words directed toward your website users, it is important to understand their expectations and wants so you can meet them.
Your ministry visitors want to feel in touch with your pastor and want to sense being cared
for by staff members from the minute they walk in the door. They want to interact with you and not feel
like a number sitting alone in a pew. You want them to feel at home, too, so when you greet these visitors to your ministry, you smile, welcome them, and give them your undivided attention. Your writing voice should do exactly the same thing.
Be friendly.
Your tone has the power to invite people in or turn people away. Use informal language. Say "we" and "you" instead of "our
congregation" or "ministry leaders" to make yourself more relatable. Use your page as a handshake and
your text as a "welcome."
Example of friendly voice:
If you are interested in becoming a member of Calvary Baptist, we invite you to attend Meet the Pastors.
Meet the Pastors is a great first step
towards becoming involved at Calvary. If you are investigating or
have recently decided to make Calvary your church home, then we welcome you to join us at Meet the Pastors.
Please register for Meet the Pastors today. We would love to see you there!
Be firm and use active voice.
Use active voice when writing news articles or blogs to energize the
content and involve the reader. Use strong commands when writing ad
content to promote action. Use the present tense and confident words to
give your text authority.
Example of firm, active voice using present tense:
Join us at one of our two Sunday services. We meet at 9:30 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. each week. We invite you to engage in Christ-centered worship and an
application-filled study of God’s Word with us.
Visit our "What To Expect" page to find out more about our services and our beliefs. If you have a question or comment, fill out a Contact Us form.
SOURCES FOR THIS BLOG/FURTHER READING ON WRITING FOR THE WEB
The 10 Commandments of Internet Writing: Web Pro News
 Improving Search Results, Chapter 3: Directories and Social Media
Make Your Ministry Website More Visible By Using Directories and Social Media Websites.
Now that you have conquered Google by increasing your PageRank, and other search engines by adding Meta Tags, you can still improve your search engine results. By adding your site to directories and social sites, you can improve your church website’s credibility which will move your site up the chain of search results.
Directories
Directories are man-made lists of websites. Each site that is added to a directory is evaluated and deemed one of high quality. So being added to one or more of these directories is seen by search engines as a thumbs up from peers, which influences the order in which they list sites in query results.
Three directories you should add your site to:
- DMOZ
- Yahoo Directory
- ZoomInfo
DMOZ
A volunteer-run directory hosted by Mozilla, only sites with quality content will get listed here. New sites are less likely, and since it is managed by volunteers, it can take time to get added. DMOZ is the largest human-edited directory of the
Web, so if you aren't listed here, search engines will be given a reason not to list your site at the top of results. Add your site to DMOZ.
Yahoo Directory
Yahoo's Directory unfortunately is not free, it costs you $299 per year. But its size and name recognition might make it worth your while if you care deeply about improving your search results. Add your site to Yahoo Directory.
ZoomInfo
This directory and search engine is geared more toward businesses, but allows you to create an informative profile. You can add a searchable profile for your ministry and link to your website. ZoomInfo has profiles on more than 37 million people and 3.5 million companies, so it can be valuable to have on your site's "resume." Create a profile on ZoomInfo.
Social Networking and Media Sites
These sites can be used to drive more traffic to your website. More traffic means more respect from search engines and a better search ranking.
Three social networking and media sites you should add your site (and its content) to:
- Facebook
- Del.icio.us
- Digg
Facebook
We all know that Facebook is great for keeping in touch with old friends from the past, but it can also help you increase your Web traffic and boost your search engine results. You can create a free group and allow people to become a "fan" of your ministry. You can also link to your website and post news and event updates (which you can link to news and events on your site) to drive more visitors to your site. We thought that we should take our own advice and recently created a group. If you are an existing client or are thinking about becoming one, why not join the iMinistries Facebook Group?
Del.icio.us
If you create compelling content on your site, your users will share it with others on this web-based bookmarking site ( learn more about Del.icio.us here). The best avenue for creating the kind of constantly changing content people share is in our blog feature. Here you can discuss your weekly sermons more in-depth, and allow your visitors to add comments. You can share your insights on relevant topics or events. If you haven't started a blog, visit this help file to find out how you can do so today.
Digg
Digg is a site that allows you or your visitors to submit and rate articles. Each article can receive diggs, or votes, from Digg.com users. More diggs means articles move closer and closer to the Digg homepage or its topic homepages. If you or visitors to your site submit articles and they are compelling enough to become popular, this could mean increased traffic to your site--and we now know that high-traffic sites get listed higher on search results. To submit articles, you must first create a free account.
 Improving Search Results, Chapter 2: Utilizing Meta Tags
Make Your Ministry Website More Visible With Meta Tags
What are Meta Tags?
Meta Tags are keywords and phrases hidden in the background of your church website to describe your page to search engines. These tags help them determine if your site is best for a search query. They also appear as the title and description of your site in the results of those search queries.
If you have not added Meta tags to your site, search engines will use the first lines of your page as your description, so you can see why Meta tags are an important tool to ensure that users find you. Meta tags give you control over the first impression you present to searchers.
For example, Calvary Church and Grace Bible are two ministries in suburban Boston. Calvary has added Meta title and description tags to their site. Grace Bible has not, so the search engine has grabbed its menu bar as its description. Below are the search results for “Bible church in Boston suburbs”:
Calvary Church - Welcome
Calvary is a Bible-believing church that has faithfully served the Boston suburbs since 1974. Calvary offers diverse ministry for men, women, children, and students…
Grace Bible – Home – Grace Bible Church
Home – Ministries – Contact Us – FAQ – info@gracebible.net 123 Main St., Suburbs, MA 12345…
You can see how these small tags can make a big impression on search engine users. Calvary Church’s website jumps out as more relevant, simply because they added a brief summary of their ministry as a Meta Tag.
What Content Should I use in a Meta Tag?
Concentrate on creating three types of Meta Tags, using the analogy of a book:
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Title (book title): Summarize your ministry in a few short words. Obviously, you ministry name should come first. But adding two or three words after the ministry…
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Description (back cover summary): In a few short sentences, describe your ministry. This description will be displayed under your site's title in search results (like above) and is often called a "snippet." To read more about how to create more effective snippets, check out this article from Google.
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Keywords (subject, genre, author): List words and phrases that relate to your ministry. Like your location, your senior pastor or founder’s name, and even “church.” Google has decided to help you out with keyword development. Their Keyword Tool allows you to generate suggested keywords by entering in your website's URL.
How can I add Meta Tags to My iMinistries site?
Adding a Meta Tag to your iMinistries site is easy. Just follow these steps:
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Navigate to your Site Administration.
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In your Site Controls, select Site Preferences.
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On the General tab, click [Meta Tag Administration]
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Click Add Tag
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Name your tag (ex. “Description”), fill in the Content field, and save.
You can also add Meta Tags to individual pages. When you edit any page, event, news article, or other content, navigate to its SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tag. Add your descriptions and keywords in the fields provided.
 Improving Search Results, Chapter 1: The Google Monster
Make Your Site More Visible on Google Search Results By Improving Your PageRank.
How Does Google Determine Search Ranking?
Many new visitors to your church website find you through search engines. Whether they type in generic terms like “churches in downtown Louisville” or your exact ministry name, you want your website to be the first in lists of search results. To make this a reality, you should know about search engine optimization (SEO).
Dominate among search engines is Google who utilizes its own system for the order of how websites are listed in search results. Their PageRank formula is a important part of that system.
Simplified, the formula Google uses to determine whether your ministry is the first site listed when someone enters in a search query that relates to you is this:
Search Ranking = Relevance x PageRank
Relevance
To determine your site’s Relevance, Google looks at your site’s content and compares it with other sites similar to yours, in both quality and quantity. So, for example, if another “church in downtown Louisville” uses those words and phrases less than you do on your site, your Relevance is likely to be higher. If the title of your site’s pages all include your name and someone searches that name, your Relevance will be higher than other sites.
PageRank
Google assigns a number from 0-10 (10 being best) to each website to measure its credibility and overall quality. This number is determined primarily by how many other websites link to your site, with links from sites with higher PageRanks counted as much more significant because their links are more valuable. Think of it this way, a job reference from the President carries much more weight than one from the lunch lady.
Here is a summary of PageRanks and the sites that make them up, from HubSpot.com:
0-1: New sites; sites with not many other sites linking to it
2-3: Sites with minimal links
4-5: Popular sites with a fair amount of other sites linking to it
6: Very popular sites that have hundreds of links, many of them quality links
7-10: Usually media brands (NYTimes.com), big companies, or A-list blogs.
To find out your PageRank, use one of the free tools below:
PageRank Checker
WebSiteGrader
How to Bump Up Your Google Search Ranking
Here are a few easy steps you can take you improving your PageRank:
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Spell-check the content on your site. Visitors can't find you if you spell Calvary Church “Cavalry Chruch.”
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Include words that people might enter in their searches in your content. If your ministry is in Louisville, make sure it says so on your site.
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Make sure each page on your site has a title in the top toolbar.
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If you have partner ministries, include a page on your site where you link to their sites, and encourage them to do the same. The more sites you can get linking to you, the better.
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Be picky about who you link to. Only link to quality sites who update their content regularly.
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Update your home page and other pages constantly with fresh content, news items, and events. Use our Widgets Feature to do the work for you.
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Sign up for Google Analytics and use it. Using this free tool will let you see traffic to your site and give you insights on how to improve your content.
- Link to other content on your site using hyperlinks. In the text of a news item, link to an event so visitors can register. In a blog, link to a photo gallery. These links help balance your PageRank over your whole site.
- Take pride in the quality of your content. Avoid duplicate pages and information. Make text clear and brief.
- When you link to other pages or sites, use keywords. Instead of writing "click here" and making it a hyperlink, use text that relates to the item you are linking to, like "All Church Picnic Registration."
Sources for This Blog and Further Reading on SEO
The Importance of Google PageRank - HubSpot.com
12 Things to Do to Improve Your Site's Google Page Ranking - Stason.org
 Make Your Location Map Interactive
Use the Google Map Widget to Embed an Interactive Map on Your Church Website
To make it easier for your church website users to visit your ministry in person, consider embedding a map, like the one below, from Google in your About Us section.
To make a map like what you see above, follow these steps:
- Edit or create a news item, page, or event.
- Select the Widget button from the Editor's toolbar.
- Click on the Google Map link to expand the feature.
- Enter in your location's address, the size you want your map, and your desired zoom level and Add.
- Change the status of your page to Published and Save.
- Bask in your new found knowledge as well as how you now are providing an interactive map to the users of your church website!
After you save your changes, navigate to your new page and insure you like what you see. If you would like for it to appear differently, go back through the steps that you have just taken and adjust the map accordingly. When users of your website visit this page, they can interact with the map getting very detailed directions.
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