5 Quick Tactics to Get Your Church Website Ready for Christmas

What you'll learn

• 5 updates you can make to your church website in under an hour
• How to add a Christmas service banner that visitors cannot miss
• Simple ways to update your homepage for the season
• Making sure service times and location info are front and center
• Quick social media tie-ins to drive traffic to your updated site

Notes

• Use the Social Scheduler to plan many posts ahead for events and sermons, since promoting content is most of the work.
• Ask members to re-share your posts so they reach friends who do not attend.
• Update the home page: refresh sliders for current events, add a leadership block, and tweak the welcome text.
• Use the welcome copy to ease visitor worries, like adding any COVID guidelines, and add a Christmas image.
• Upload sermons regularly so visitors know the church is still meeting and can see what to expect.
• Create events for Sunday services, livestreams, and special Christmas events so members and guests see what is coming.
• Audit your site: test the contact form, check phone and address, livestream, giving page, and old service times.
• Invite someone else to look over the site and catch errors.
• Bonus: write a blog post on top five things to do in your city this Christmas, and include your service.
• Update main Christmas images after Thanksgiving, and add a block on the home page linking to a Christmas landing page.

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