Local Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for churches is a process that helps your church website rank high up in the search engine results pages of Google, Yahoo and Bing. Everyday thousands of people within a 10 mile radius of your local area go to the search engines looking for spiritual help. In fact,  90% of people go to the internet to investigate FIRST before purchasing a service or visiting a church. 

So how important is local search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your local church? Very Important if you want to attract new visitors to your church. Obtaining a great Christian website design, and getting that site SEO optimized is simply way more effective than any other form of church marketing, including mailers.

Local Church SEO

Let’s put it this way: A church website without local search engine optimization (SEO) is like a boat without a sail. No matter how professional looking your local church website design, if it’s not search engine optimized to bring in local targeted traffic (that means they are already looking for you!) what good will it do you?

At Christian WebMedia, our expertise in local church search engine optimization separates us from the typical Christian church website designing company. Yes, we make beautiful and easy to use church web sites at affordable prices, but unlike most Christian website designing companies, we perform a basic search engine optimization for all our custom church websites (including mobile ready church sites) so potential visitors will be able to find your site. This includes one time submissions to the major search engines, and meta tag optimization for all curent pages.

As an example of what we can do for you, take a look at my optimized church site: Oasis-Church-NJ.com. Now do a “Google Search” for highly competitive key phrases like “NJ Church” NJ Contemporary Church” (make sure you search the web and video. Did you know video accounts for 30% of all search results?) and “Contemporary Christian Church”.  On “NJ Church”, we rank #1 our of 119,000,000 results that Google returned:

We  also rank in the top 5 for literally hundreds of valuable key words, the kind that has brought, get this, over 600 people to Oasis in the last 18 months through the internet alone!  We also get tens of thousands of  site visitors per week, and our podcasts and videos are seen in over 172 countries of the world.

But wait! Our Oasis Church Singles blog is Christian-Dating-Service-Plus.com. You’ve heard of “eHarmony Dating Service” right? Of course you have.  Now do a Yahoo, Bing and Google search for that key phrase, “eHarmony Dating Service”. The result as you can see in this below frame is that Christian-Dating-Service-Plus.com comes up in the top 5 on all 3 worldwide ahead of millions of other sites, including eHarmony.com’s own tour page!

If we can do all this for highly competitive keywords with our sites, imagine what we can do for your local, less competitive  church key phrases? For a small investment, imagine the impact this could have on your local church in terms of new visitors? Imagine how you could exponentially grow your ministry worldwide? Sound interesting?

Local Church Search Engine Optimization Services

So how do you get started? If we have not built your site, we offer a full site review with SEO recommendations for a flat fee of $500. Additionally, we also offer local search engine optimization services for churches at a very fair rate of 50$ an hour. This would include such things as link building (getting inbound links to your site from other sites), on page content optimization for each page and key phrase, social media integration, Google Adwords research and implementation, etc. All of these are very important components for local church search engine optimization.

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