AFter that you should consider all the different options locally. There are city specific directories for churches, there are all sorts of local ways to get links. Think about looking for city specific places like businesses, social programs you help, etc.

Getting links to our church is very difficult. The member demographics of most churches are 40+ and typically don't have a website to hand out a link. Younger members stick to Facebook and rarely link to or mention our site.

Article marketing is somewhat futile, since nobody wants to republish your articles due to the content isn't too income producing. It's just frustrating.

CJB

This is an incredibly in-depth resource.

Thank you for writing it. (Though I know you wrote it a while back it's till really good)

I especially like your statement that church's should be able to do their own seo - (with the help us a techy teen)

Your thought process fits exactly with me own.

touché

Arvell Craig

I'm on the web ministry team at Lebanon Church of West Mifflin, PA - near Pittsburgh. I actually the person who started this topic on webmasterworld back in 2008. Since then, I've taken much of the knowledge of that thread plus other research that I've done, and applied it to our church website with great success. To help other churches and Christian organizations further their online ministries, I have created a webinar and Powerpoint presentation outlining the techniques that I utilized to increase traffic to our church website.

In this webinar, learn how to build links, utilize keywords, and take advantage of various search engine optimization strategies. Click here to view the Webinar (6 part series) on Youtube. Click here to download the Powerpoint PDF version of the document from our website. I hope that you find these resources to be useful and encourage you to check back at our website, http://www.lebanonpc.org for more free technical resources and information regarding our events, programs, and ministries.

Hope this helps!

God Bless

Sure, but its content that tells Google "hey! this is about this subject" and well done and useful design tends to attract links. Given that links are the keys to SEO, its critical you take images into consideration in your SEO strategy.

Also, you show up for other verticals of Google search like image search. The value of that is debatable--as users who click on images probably aren't looking to find a church--but its extra way to get potential visitors.

I disagree proper seo tactics will help you succeed, it's all dependent on links and content, especially for small web sites.

FYI, The 2-4 hundred word minimum is not a best practice, it's just that for church web sites you typically don't need anything longer.

2) Attractive and interesting pictures attract links and viewers.