Websites for Christian Counselors
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Christian Counseling Website - Why You Want One
Marketing a counseling practice should involve many media. Various practices have used business cards, brochures, flyers, radio, television, printed directories, signs, books, public speaking engagements and so forth. One of the most effective means of reaching people today is to have a website about your counseling practice on the Internet. It can tie all your other activities together.
Christian Counseling Websites add Synergism
Marketing is a synergistic activity. Good marketing will involve a well-considered plan that ties a number of different methods and media together. The result is greater than the sum of the individual parts. While there are many activities, media and forums that may be used to inform the world of your practices, virtually all of them can be connected to a website. Whether it is on your business card or in the signature of your email, the URL of your website should be involved in every marketing activity you engage in.
Even word-of-mouth referrals will be enhanced if your referrer can say, "Oh, you can find the website on the Internet, just search for..."
Google for Christian Counseling Website Instead of Yellow Pages
Given a choice, most people will search the Internet before a telephone directory to locate the services they require. Consequently. it is vital that Christian counselors establish a presence on the web that can be readily found by those in need.. However, as the Internet has matured, the task of creating a findable website has become complex. From the name of the site, the host, the content and the expiration date of the URL, hundreds of factors combine to determine the "find-ability" of a website.
Your Christian Counseling Website
Pastoral Counseling Center is glad to help meet this need by offering to assist Christian counselors and students in the creation and promotion of a website that will be readily found by people seeking Christian counseling services.
There are many technical considerations (that we will help you with) such as:
- The name of a website is very important. Known as the URL, the search engines (Google®, Yahoo®, Bing®, etc), consider it to be a significant indicator of the content of the site.
- The "title" and the "meta tags" of the website contain invisible information that is also considered an important part of the message a website delivers and can determine its search-ability.
- The content of the site itself is highly relevant. Each word is read, cataloged, and evaluated by the machines that "read" websites.
- Errors in the construction of a website make it difficult for the machines to read it, and can have a deleterious effect on find-ability.
- Links to and from other sites are a major key. The search engines impute credibility to a website by referral. Having other websites offering a link to your website can be very important.
Based on information provided by the counselor, a multiple page website explaining the services offered, location, contact information and other useful information will be created. Please send us your resume, brochure and any other information that will help us create your site.
Christian Counseling Website Creation
We will create an attractive, unique multi-page website for your Christian counseling practice or other Christian activity at a low cost to you. We will be happy to help you select a domain name for your site and work with you to create a website. Call Roger Young @ 941-224-6127 to get your website started. Do not wait too long. It can take months for search engines to acknowledge your site. The sooner it is started the better. Your ministry does not need to be open to create a website..
A Sample Christian Counseling Website
As an example for you, one of our counselors chose the URL Bradenton-Christian-Counselor.com for her website. It contains three important keywords, and the hyphens make the words clearer. This name has worked very well, and began producing calls to her practice within days. Be sure to visit her site.
Get Your Counseling Website Started
If you are ever planning to have a website for your practice, it is highly recommended that you begin as soon as possible.
Many search engines evaluate the age of a website, and are reluctant to present sites that are less than six month old, and give preference to older sites over newer ones. The date a name for a website is reserved is a matter of record.
Obtaining a well considered URL and creating an introductory website is an excellent idea. The sooner your website is created. the better.
Call today and get started. 941-224-6127.