How Google will bury your church website
On April 21st, a new update from Google will bury your church website from MOBILE search listings if your website isn’t ready for their new requirements.
Is your church website an open door or barrier to your church?
Today, Yvon Prehn allow me to share her guest post about your church website. Yvon is an excellent writer and shares frequently on church communications – in fact, that is her ministry. I’ve benefited much from my conversations with her and her regular newsletter provides all sorts of great snippets. She also runs a membership …
1 Way To Keep a Person from Visiting Your Church
We were a family who was ready to visit a church. We did not visit this one because of a really bad mistake on their church website. I'll show you what it was and then show you how to fix it.
How Can I Persuade My Leaders To Invest in a Church Website? A Discussion Starter
If you are the pastor of a church who needs to persuade your leaders to invest in a good church website, what can you do to make your case? I know how I use church websites when I travel. I look for service times and addresses. Churches without that information won’t even get a visit …
Does your church website answer questions for potential visitors?
This question came across my twitter feed (@EvangelismCoach) this past Sunday: “It’s 2nd Sunday .. I’m visiting a new church .. Heels or Tennis shoes ? I never know how to dress when I’m a visitor” This brings up the point: Can potential first time church visitors find out the information they need on your church website …
Update your Church Website for Your Christmas Visitors
Many people check out a church’s website or Facebook page prior to visiting your church at Christmas. If you are having special events at Christmas to attract new church visitors, ask yourself these questions while at your church website: What time is your Christmas Eve Service? What should I expect on Christmas Eve? Is there …
Reduce Friction on Your Church Website
Can potential first time church visitors find out the information they need on your church website landing page? What do you think are some of the most common questions of your website visitor? Here is what I think (though I don’t have data to prove it): Where is the church? What does the building look …
Church Websites Help Visitors find your Church
This Easter, some people might want to visit your church for the first time in a long time. This Holy Week, some out of town guests may want to visit your special services for holy week. You don’t know who they are. They don’t know where they want to go. God has given these first …
31 days to Improve Your Pastor Blog or Church Website
The ebook from ProBlogger is an action step guide to improving your church's blog, pastor's blog or ministry blog
Expert Interview — Simple Church Websites that Work
Do you like the look or feel of your church websites? They are embarrassing. They are clumsy. They are hard to keep up to date. It was designed 10 years ago in HTML and uses expensive software. What if you could fix that for free (do it yourself) or for a small fee and outsource a …
A Broken Church Website
I recently visited a church website and immediately thought they were playing hard to get. Does your website prevent visitors from even making it to you church? Does your website home page commit any of these errors? 1. Where does your church meet? I wanted to know where the church was. There was no address …
Church Websites can be Embarrassing
Last week, I spoke with a small suburban church pastor who apologetically murmured how his church website embarrassed him. “I’m sorry you had to see that.” He went on to explain how it was setup 10 years ago by a church member who has since moved on and how impossible it is to maintain with …
Help Out of Town Visitors Find Your Church
This spring there will be many occasions where out of town visitors might be visiting their relatives. If they want to attend a special service at your church, such as your Easter or Resurrection Day services, can they easily get the information from your website? Example from Christmas Over Christmas, my family visited relatives. We …
Who are you? A Church Website Review
Recently I visited a very elaborate website for a church and wanted to find out some information before potentially visiting. As part of a church’s marketing strategy, a website is a useful tool to help attract people to your congregation. While not directly evangelism, it is a tool that can help create evangelism moments by …
First Impressions: Survey First Time Visitors (More)
Last month, I posted an entry on Surveying 1st Time Church Visitors to help improve your church’s welcoming. I contacted each church mentioned and discovered the effect of such an online first time visitor survey was a zero. One church visitor survey was a broken link. The second church visitor survey for first time visitors …
Church Website hides contact information
I visited a church website this morning (the day after Thanksgiving, 2007). The church was announcing the start up of an evangelism group. I like the idea — a group of people gathering regularly to encourage each other to do evangelism. This is an idea that I suggest to help develop evangelism training lab-time in …
Church Website Design Tool
I have visited many church websites myself and here is what I find: Cheesy organ music playing automatically. No staff information. No service times on the front page. No pictures of people. A church logo, with flashy stuff that says click here to skip intro. No directions No website at all I’m part of a …
Hard to get: What time are your services?
A church that took over an abandoned post-office turned the exterior into a nice presentable building. It looked sharp, clean, and with fresh paint and landscaping. Since the church was in my normal commuting patterns, I would drive by at least 3-4 times a day. The facilities renovation attracted my attention. What time are your …