ChurchGuideUSA.com is a directory designed to help potential members find churches located closest to them. We have done our best to include every Christian church. If you cannot find your church, please feel free to email us your church's information. We will add it as soon as possible.
Churches not only need an effective, cost-efficient way to promote themselves, they need to promote themselves using the same vehicles that potential members are using to find and research a church.
Every month, 40 million people search Google for churches. However, geo-targeting pay-per-click advertising to a very small area is difficult and can be very expensive.
After a year of research, it was determined that the best way for churches to promote themselves through pay-per-click advertising is through a "co-operative" environment. ChurchGuideUSA.com provides exactly this by aggressively advertising everywhere we have a premium listing.
When a user does any kind of search for "church" (or any of number of iterations), our ad will appear on Google. When they click, they are sent to the home page of ChurchGuideUSA.com where they are asked to enter their zip code. When a zip code is entered, the closest 100 churches (or all churches within a 25 mile radius) are shown in the results. All premium listings are shown first, followed by basic listings.
Also, while basic listings only include church name and address, premium listings include phone number, website link, email address, pastor name, denomination, hours of worship, mission statement, and more.
Therefore, churches with premium listings will garner the bulk of the calls and visits from our website.
Basic listings are free.
Premium listings are $24 per month. You may try out a premium listing free for 30 days.
You will be billed by email once per month. Your bill is accessible as a printable PDF, which you may print and send with a check. You may also pay by credit card directly through the email. We utilize Freshbooks.com for invoicing, and Authorize.net is our payment gateway.
You can even elect to save your credit card information in our payment gateway, and we can automatically charge your card the $24 per month. This will save you a great deal of time. Your paid invoice will still be emailed to you should you elect this option.
No. You may choose to downgrade your listing at any time.
We are working on the programming for you to be able to upload your church's picture or logo to your premium listing. This will be available in early 2009.
Not at all. While we do recommend that every church have a website, it is not necessary to have one to enjoy the benefits of ChurchGuideUSA.com.