Still not sure whether to add funeral notices to your website? As experts in obituaries and family notices, we know there is growing demand for instant news in local communities.
50% of all traffic to our local news sites eg Manchester Evening News, WalesOnline and YorkshireLive click to read funeral notices in their area whilst browsing local news.
That's a lot of people reading funeral notices online across the UK. We want to help you to provide this vital information to your local communities too, so we have put together five great reasons why it makes sense to update your websites to include funeral notices.
It's 100% free to display funeral notices on your website. No gimmicks, catches or small print. There's nothing to lose and plenty to gain.
We know the demand to view notices online is there, so we know that by adding notices to your website you will attract more people to view your website. This increases your online presence within your local communities. Funeral notices are not only read by immediate family and friends, they're read by neighbours, family members they've not seen in a while, ex-pats across the world, friends of friends, community members. When a notice is shared just once on social media, it can lead to thousands of views by people of varying ages and backgrounds. Many of these people would never normally visit the website of a Funeral Director unless they were in immediate need so by encouraging them to view notices on your website, they will also see what else you can offer such as funeral plans, grief support, reviews and prices.
Choosing us to provide notices on your website comes with access to our Platinum Club benefits including a free, 1/2 page testimonial advert in your local Reach Plc newspaper for 6 nights (in a daily publication) or 2 weeks (in a weekly).
We will add your business logo and website address to an indexing advert published in your local Reach Plc newspaper indefinitely. This advert features in a prominent position on the funeral notices pages of the newspaper.
We also provide a free digital advert that appears on your listings page on funeral-notices.co.uk, on your notice history page and beneath every notice we publish online for you - providing another backlink to your website.
This free advertising package is exclusive to our Preferred Partners (those Funeral Directors for whom we provide funeral notices on their website) and has a value of more than £2,000. What is there to lose?
To help ensure your funeral notice history truly reflects how sought after your funeral services are, we provide you with free online notices - something you can offer to families who choose not to have a newspaper notice. Free online notices are also a great option for anyone who lives, or lived, in an area outside of our traditional print newspaper locations as they may be linked to any village/town/city in the UK.
Many of our Preferred Partners choose to use online notices to provide an online donation facility accessed via their own website without the need of a costly subscription service. Online donations really proved their worth during the pandemic, with many families expecting this service as part of their funeral notice package.
We offer two options for you to display notices on your website.
Option 1: We provide you with a link to sit behind a Funeral Notices or Funeral Notices & Donations button on the main 'nav bar' on your homepage. Have a look at the website of one of our recent Preferred Partners, Austin's Family Funeral Directors in Hertfordshire
here. Austin's have a link to their funeral notices at the top of their homepage and are a great example of how option 1 could look on your own website.
Option 2: We can provide some html code to embed your funeral notices into your website, making them fully integrated and dynamic. We can match the colours with your branding too. A great example of option 2 in use by one of our Preferred Partners is the website of William Emery & Sons in Staffordshire. In this example the embedded notices are viewed via a 'family announcements' header on the homepage. Have a look at their website
here.
We have created a document to further explain the options available to you here:
How would you like to display funeral notices on your website?
So, that's at least five great reasons to choose funeral-notices.co.uk to provide notices on your website.
Don't just take our word for it - we have already welcomed over 200 Funeral Directors across the UK into our Preferred Partner Family and cannot wait to welcome you too - contact us to find out who is already benefitting from becoming a Preferred Partner in your area.
We would love to hear from you about adding notices to your website, please contact us using the form below and an Account Manager will be in touch.
Thank you for reading.
