Christian Web Trends Blog

Research shows having reviews, pictures and videos posted on an organization’s Google Places page have a positive impact on rankings on Google and Google Maps.

The Google search engine algorithm tweakers have been busy lately. We’ve been following the changes, monitoring the impact of these changes on our search marketing clients & are here to explain them to you in plain English.

Today we’re reviewing, discussing and giving away Viral: How Social Networking Is Poised to Ignite Revival by Leonard Sweet. Keep reading to learn how you can win one of three signed copies.

Google has changed the privacy policy for every Google product, including Google, YouTube, Droid, and many others. How will this effect you? Should you be concerned?

Learn how likes and +1s impact search results and how you can use them to get better search rankings.

Google has taken another step towards the merging of search results and social media with the addition of “Personal Results from Google+ activity. Learn how this affects you and you organization even if you’re not using Google+ yet.

Just as Facebook opened up its network to organiztaions with Facebook Pages, Google has now opened up its Google+ social network to organizations with Google+ Pages. Connect with OurChurch.Com on G+

It’s time again to look at last month’s analytics to see what we can learn about last blog posts and search rankings. Plus the always-funny wonky keywords!

Paid marketing – Google ads, Facebook ads, paid search results, etc. – requires more commitment and risk, but offers a bigger return.

Google, Facebook and other sites are personalizing results in the name of “relevance.” That sounds good, but it could have some serious spiritual implications.