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Churches like yours know how vital it is to stay connected online with both its members and reaching new people through social media and...

Understanding the basics of creating a winning church website design is crucial. Whether you’re designing your website from scratch, using a website builder, or hiring a designer, you’ll want to know the basics in order to create an engaging website or provide insightful feedback after evaluating one that has been made for you.

One of the most effective ways to reach new people in your community is to find them after they have begun looking for a church to call home. In this article, I am going to show you how to strategically use local church keywords to get in front of people who are actively looking for your church.

Churches are called to nurture their communities and reach out to strangers who may not know anything about Christ. But the most difficult part of this process is to make connections with people and move them from strangers to “known”. This is why churches should optimize ways to help strangers discover their churches; ways that encourage that important first connection.

You want to grow your church and steward its resources in keeping with the times. What does that look like in our digital age? Creating a website, of course! It’s probably been years since you first made your church website public and you’ve spent a lot of money on it and a lot of time went into creating it. Just because you haven’t seen a lot of traffic doesn’t mean that you should scrap your site. You just need to make some basic changes.

In this video, watch Jay Kranda, the online community pastor for Saddleback Church, perform a church website audit for Grace Community Church in Arlington, VA.

How can a local church attract more people who live 15 minutes away? This article discusses one of the best options: online with a great local SEO strategy.

Your church's website serves multiple purposes: it welcomes would-be visitors, provides timely information, and has the potential to create a trust factor between you and the people you serve. And let's not forget the chance to represent your church with beautiful imagery. Check out these church sites that complete those jobs and more, all built on Faithlife Sites.