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2022 School and Nonprofit Website Wrap Up – Our Year in Review
It is hard to believe, but 2022 is coming to a close— happy holidays and happy New Year! What a whirlwind this year has been. While we can’t wait to see what next year holds, the holiday season gives an opportunity to look back and reflect on this past year…
Come back strong after winter break with these quick school marketing plans
With the holidays this week, schools were recently released for winter break until January. While it’d be nice to take the entire break off, this is a great opportunity for you to revamp your private school website and marketing plan through some quick, painless projects that put you in a…
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How To Practice Values-Based Gift-Giving This Holiday Season
The holiday season is officially upon us! With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror, people begin frantically purchasing gifts for Christmas, especially with the enticing Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. While purchasing and giving gifts at Christmas time is a joy to some, it can be a chore to others….
4 Ways to Prepare Your Nonprofit Website for The Holiday Campaign Season
The holiday season can become chaotic for nonprofit organizations very quickly; when it comes to prepping for the holiday campaign season, the busiest season of the year, it’s best to plan as early as possible. Now that we’re in November, most (if not all) tactical planning around your nonprofit organization’s…
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Your Nonprofit’s Comprehensive Website Maintenance Checklist
Maintaining a website is no easy feat; it takes lots of effort to carry out through the year. This is especially true for a nonprofit, already running with limited time and resources. Understanding and planning out the laundry list of website maintenance can be daunting— how often should the analytics…
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6 Mistakes You Might Be Making on Your School Website
Keeping your private school’s website design in tip top shape over time is no easy feat— with plugin updates, design tweaks, and overall site upkeep, there is a laundry list of maintenance must-haves to keep the boat afloat and your website performing at an optimal level. In this blog post,…
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Why WordPress is the Best for Your School Website
When you are going through a website redesign or starting fresh with a new website concept for your small school, your first step is choosing which of the many website development platforms to work with. There are a multitude of options, which can seem overwhelming, but we’re here to tell…
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4 Helpful SEO Stats (And How to Use Them for Your School Blog)
Did you know that over 90 percent of online searches begin with a search engine? In fact, the average person conducts about three to four searches a day. If someone is looking for an answer to a question or a certain piece of information, it is almost certain they will…
Boost Your Website’s SEO with These 5 Copywriting Tips
Spending hours developing content that doesn’t improve your website’s rankings feels like a waste of time. Understanding copywriting tactics is key to developing winning content that improves SEO for your school website. We’ve written about writing for SEO and copywriting before. In short, SEO copywriting is writing that encourages a site…
Four Simple Ways To Improve Local Search Results for Your School
For small schools, your rankings in search engines like Google are the secret ingredient to a successful marketing strategy. To reach your marketing goals and improve local search results, your website and its content needs to be optimized to its full potential. In this blog post, we’ll give you insider…
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5 Easy Summer Break SEO Tasks for your School Website
While your school students, parents and families are relaxing this summer, your team may be taking advantage of the vacation and preparing your website for the next school year. We are going to share our top recommended tasks for school websites for your summer break. Summer is short— if you…
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Using Google Business Profile to Increase Student Enrollment
Let’s talk about free and effective marketing strategies to increase student enrollment! As summer kicks off, your school kickstarts recruiting new students to join your school community in the fall. As for parents, they will scour the internet for information on the best school option for their kids for the…
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Is Your Nonprofit Website Ready for a Major Fundraiser?
Preparing for a major fundraising campaign is a complex, laborious process for nonprofit organizations— preparing a nonprofit website to support a major campaign is just one facet of the planning! To help keep your ducks in a row during the planning process, we’ve put together a master checklist of items…
Google Analytics 4 for Nonprofits and School Websites
If you aren’t already utilizing Google Analytics for your nonprofit organization or school website, this is your signal to start! In this article, we’ll dig into how Google Analytics can benefit your small school or nonprofit website performance and unpack a huge Google Analytics update to take effect next summer. …
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Essential School Website Features for Great User Experience
In the web design world, there are a plethora of fancy features that are implemented in school websites to enhance user experience. These could include videography, pop-ups, interactive polls, the list goes on. While they are great add-ons, and can definitely add a layer of complexity to overall user experience,…
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What Makes a Good Nonprofit Website
Contrary to popular belief, a good non-profit website doesn’t need to cost tens of thousands of dollars; however, it needs to be functional, easy to navigate, and eye-catching for your audiences. There are several elements that are included in the formula of a strong non-profit website. To build a solid,…
Is Your Website Accessible?
Website accessibility is a hot topic right now. Since 1990, the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) has prohibited discrimination based on disability. Originally focused on accessibility to brick and mortar buildings, it has expanded to include virtual spaces, as well. This means that your website (a virtual space) should allow…
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4 Ways to Build a More Creative School Website
A solid small school website encapsulates its mission, values, communities, and instruction style. Once you have built a basic framework to a stellar school website, there are still ways to boost overall creativity and give your site the “wow” factor it needs to stand out in the crowd. If your…
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Website content your private school needs to increase virtual connections
As the pandemic reaches its two-year benchmark and some parts of instruction remain virtual, it’s important that your private school website content prioritizes virtual connection with your school families, as meetings, open houses, and other events become less frequent in-person. Your school website needs to be easy to navigate, chock-full…
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SEO for Schools
Connecting keyword research to your target audiences and content in 2022 Statistics are out showing trends in Google Search in 2021. 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine. (Webfx) Only about 8% of online searches are phrased as a question. (Moz) After searching on a smartphone for something…