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2019 (23)
- July (2)
  - • Shouldn't I Use Stock Photos on Our Church Website?
  - • Closed for Fourth of July 2019
- June (2)
  - • Beware of Fake Invoice Scams for Your Website Domain Name
  - • Closed for Summer Vacation Week 2019
- May (4)
- April (4)
- March (4)
- February (1)
  - • It's Time to Get Ready for Vacation Bible School (VBS)
- January (6)
2018 (37)
- December (2)
  - • Closed for Christmas Week 2018 and New Year
  - • Custom Field Upgrade for Church Membership Database
- November (4)
- October (1)
  - • New App Keeps the Text Conversation Going
- September (2)
  - • Closed for Fall Break
  - • Testimonial: Inga Edwards
- August (4)
- July (2)
  - • New Free Resources on Your Dashboard
  - • Closed for Fourth of July 2018
- June (4)
- May (3)
- April (3)
- March (5)
  - • Closed for Good Friday
  - • Wishing You a Blessed Easter 2018
  - • Child Check-In Signature Upgrade
  - • Six Years in Business
  - • March 2018 Newsletter
- February (2)
  - • 9 Things for Your Church to Check Before Easter
  - • New Facebook Pixel Plugin
- January (5)
2017 (35)
- December (2)
  - • Closed for Christmas Week 2017 and New Year
  - • Feature Spotlight: Visitor Follow-Up
- November (4)
- October (2)
  - • 2.5 Million Sermon Listens and Growing
  - • New Mobile App Home Screen Link Controls
- September (2)
  - • September 2017 Newsletter
  - • Closed for Labor Day 2017
- August (3)
- July (2)
  - • Testimonial: Rae Knobloch
  - • Closed for Fourth of July 2017
- June (2)
  - • New Form Copy Feature
  - • What is Next in Church Technology?
- May (5)
- April (3)
- March (3)
- February (1)
  - • New Tool: Automated Voice Messaging
- January (6)
2016 (35)
- December (2)
  - • Closed for Christmas 2016 and New Year
  - • Our December Newsletter is Here
- November (3)
- October (1)
  - • New Custom URL Creator
- September (4)
- August (4)
- July (5)
- June (2)
  - • New Form Reporting Tool
  - • Facebook Album Slideshow Creator
- May (3)
- April (2)
  - • Merge Your Church's Facebook Place and Page
  - • New Feature: Color-Coded Calendar Categories
- March (3)
- February (2)
  - • 5 New Features Just Released
  - • Faster Speeds for OCS Websites
- January (4)
2015 (29)
- December (2)
  - • Closed for Christmas Time and New Year
  - • Is Your Church Website Ready for Christmas?
- November (2)
  - • Closed This Thanksgiving
  - • 10 Year Anniversary for Podcast Your Sermons
- October (2)
  - • Automatic Sign-Up for Texting and Email Newsletter, More
  - • Drag and Drop Banners Plus More Upgrades
- September (3)
- August (3)
- July (4)
- June (1)
  - • Your Latest Blog Post Now Instantly Appears Anywhere on Your Site
- May (2)
  - • Closed for Summer Vacation Week
  - • Closed for Memorial Day 2015
- April (1)
  - • Mobile-Friendly Web App for Your Church Already Included
- March (3)
- February (3)
- January (3)
2014 (12)
- December (2)
  - • Hey, Did Anyone Else See That Year Just Fly By?
  - • Closed for Christmas and New Year
- November (1)
  - • Closed for Thanksgiving
- September (2)
  - • Podcast Your Sermons Celebrates 9 Years!
  - • Closed September 1st for Labor Day
- July (1)
  - • Happy 4th of July!
- June (1)
  - • One Million Listens!
- May (1)
  - • Closed for Memorial Day
- April (1)
  - • Heartbleed Bug
- February (1)
  - • Announcing the OCS Blogging Platform, Our Own Creation
- January (2)
  - • New Resources, New Tutorial Videos
  - • 2014: New Year, New Updates
2013 (16)
- December (1)
  - • Closed for the Holidays
- October (1)
  - • Podcast Clients Can Now Embed Video on Media Player
- August (2)
  - • Closed September 2nd for Labor Day
  - • Did You Know OCS Has: Group Texting
- July (3)
- June (2)
  - • Email Account Control is Yours
  - • Design Resources Tab Now Available on Dashboard
- April (1)
  - • Thank You!
- March (2)
  - • New Tool Release: Mobile Web App
  - • Happy Birthday to Us!
- February (2)
  - • New Release: Spam Fighter
  - • New Tool Release: Email Newsletter
- January (2)
  - • New Release: Page Preview
  - • New Release: Delete Inactive Banners
2012 (10)
- December (1)
  - • Closed for the Holidays
- November (1)
  - • We Are Closed for the Week of Thanksgiving
- October (2)
  - • Did You See It? Server Upgrade Results in Faster Load Times
  - • New Release: XML Sitemap
- September (1)
  - • New Release: Customizable Browser Page Titles
- August (1)
  - • New Release: Connect Your Google Analytics Account
- July (1)
  - • New Release: Add Meta Descriptions/Meta Keywords for Each Page
- May (1)
  - • New Release: PayPal Plugin and Password Protection of Pages
- April (1)
  - • Group Text Messaging Tool Now Available
- March (1)
  - • The Launch of Online Church Solutions

October 09, 2012

New Release: XML Sitemap

Today we announce yet another helpful tool for your website: Sitemap. This is the XML file that search engines such as Google and Bing/Yahoo request that you submit to them to help the search engines easily find pages on your website. The Sitemap is already generated for you with our Online Church Solutions CMS, and it will even automatically update once each day should you make any changes to your website. If you use webmaster tools/analytics for Google or Yahoo/Bing (or any others), you may have noticed that they ask you to give them the link location of your Sitemap. When you login to your OCS website, click on “Website Builder”, then click on “Sitemap” at the very bottom of the Website Builder list. Copy the web address listed (you can also right click and copy the link), then paste that link into the respective search engine webmaster tools.

Find out more info about what an XML Sitemap is and why you need one.

Google Webmaster Tools: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Bing/Yahoo Webmaster Tools: //www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/

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Online Church Solutions is a website builder (CMS) and church management software (ChMS) for churches, ministries, missionaries and other non-profits—all in one place, all for one price. We also offer sermon podcasting with iTunes Page for an additional yearly price.

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July 15, 2019

Shouldnt I Use Stock Photos on Our Church Website

Stock photography has been such a help in building websites that look great, and churches and ministries have made great use of this resource over the years. But are there times when using a stock image isn't a good idea? Over at the Church Juice blog, they bring up four reasons not to use stock photos—and three times when you should use them. (read more)

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