Christian, Private, and Independent school marketers, you are responsible for your school’s social media, PR, content strategy, inquiry generation, etc. To say that you wear a lot of hats is an understatement! In addition to all the other roles you fill is updating your school’s website and managing search engine optimization (SEO). Even if it’s handled by another staff member or your school outsources SEO to an agency specializing in private Christian K-8 and LCMS Schools, you may need to work with them.
Whether working with an agency or going alone, you should use Google Search Console. It is a FREE resource that gives you access to tools and reports that help you measure your school’s website search performance and traffic, fix technical issues, and help you rank higher on the search engine result pages (SERPs).
Web analytics is important to grow your private Christian school’s website. Armed with this visitor data, you can determine what prospective parents and students are doing on your website.
There are numerous web analytic tools available for gathering data on your website visitors. The most popular and free version that you can use is Google Analytics. As a private school, you might have heard about or already be using Google Analytics. Today, millions of schools, non-profits, churches, and businesses use Google Analytics. If you are one of them, it is necessary to know how you can maximize this tool.
Google Analytics allows you to understand and track your prospective parents’ and students’ user experience, their consumption of your online content, their device functionality, and much more. Google Analytics provides you and your private school with the information needed to help you shape the success strategy by discovering things you probably never knew about visitors on your site.
Now before we get into the setup of Google Analytics, let’s first look at six reasons why you should have it on your school’s website:
There are over 302 million social network users in the United States, each of whom has distinct preferences for the type of content they want to see. Repurposing existing content is a simple approach to ensure that your content is noticed - and valued - by your private school’s target audience.
Repurposing content means taking valuable content you’ve already created and presenting it in a new way or on a different platform. There are numerous ways to reuse information you’ve previously published in one form or another to add value to your most viewed videos, high-traffic blog posts, or most engaging social media posts.
Here are eight great ways to repurpose content and breathe new life into your best ideas.
Private school marketing warrants time, money, and resources that can be difficult to come by. Traditional marketing worked in the past, but digital marketing has become the most effective way to attract new students. Regardless of your budget, your school can use digital marketing strategies to stay relevant without spending too much money.
