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20 minutes monthly to upkeep your website
A 6-month routine to keep your website fresh and clean ๐งผ
The more we can automate, the less we have to remember, and the more likely we'll actually get 'er done!
There are 6 "upkeep" tasks we can do to keep our website looking great, working smoothly, and showing up in search.
Month 1: Look at your Google My Business page to ensure everything is up-to-date, add new photos and update description
Month 2: Eliminate any "Orphan Pages" that have piled up (pages that are no longer relevant)
Month 3: Update content seen by the user: staff pictures and biographies, tuition costs, sermon series or Bible study archive, calendar events
Month 4: Google "(Church/School) in (my city)" in an incognito tab. Do you rank where you'd like? If not, choose one of the options below based on how much time you have:
1) GOOD - Add a keyword to each page of your site.
2) BETTER - Take 5 images on your site and change their file names to a keyword. Upload them to your site.
3) BEST - Re-write your metadata and page titles/subtitles (if your web host makes this easy) to include more keywords.
Month 5: Freshen up your homepage. What's new around there? Make any changes you've been procrastinating.
Month 6: Check all links - do they go where they're supposed to? Especially check links to outside websites or files. Make sure you're not getting any "404 - Page not found" errors.
| Click here to copy these tasks to your own Google Calendar |
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Until next week!
Grace Ungemach
I offer digital marketing education written with ministry in mind. Subscribe to my free, weekly newsletter to learn something new every Friday.
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