Hi, I’m Jacob Barr, and I’m passionate about helping pro-life organizations, especially pregnancy clinics, reach women in need through LifeNET. This collaborative SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tool is designed to boost the online visibility of pregnancy clinics, maternity homes, post-abortion healing groups, and other pro-life organizations. By working together, we can ensure that when a young woman searches for help with pregnancy or abortion-related questions, she finds life-affirming answers first.
What is LifeNET?
LifeNET is a collaborative campaign that strengthens the digital presence of pro-life organizations. At its core, it’s about creating a network of directory websites hosted on subdomains of trusted pro-life websites. These directories list pregnancy clinics, maternity homes, and other pro-life groups, generating valuable backlinks to their websites. A backlink is simply a link from one website to another—like a digital endorsement. The value of a backlink depends on the quality of the linking website, measured by Google’s metrics such as site credibility, traffic, and security. A link from a reputable site passes significant SEO value, helping your website rank higher in organic search results.
Many people—maybe 90% in a room of 40—haven’t heard of backlinks or don’t understand them. That’s okay! The key is that quality backlinks from credible websites make your site more visible on Google and Bing, driving traffic to life-affirming resources.
Why Backlinks Matter for Pro-Life Organizations
In the pro-life space, we face a tough reality: opposition groups like abortion clinics often outspend and outwork us online. They’ve built strong websites with numerous backlinks, optimized content, and high Google rankings. Meanwhile, many pregnancy clinics struggle with SEO, making it harder for women to find them. LifeNET changes that by creating a network where pro-life organizations support each other, collectively building backlinks to compete with well-funded adversaries.
SEO has two parts: on-page and off-page. On-page SEO involves optimizing your website’s content, titles, tags, and keywords to match what people search for. Off-page SEO, where LifeNET excels, focuses on external factors like backlinks. These can be text links, image links, or even links in PDFs hosted on other sites. The credibility of the linking site—often tied to its parent domain’s quality score—determines the backlink’s impact. A subdomain, like directory.allianceforlifemissouri.com, inherits much of the parent domain’s SEO value, making it a powerful tool for boosting rankings.
How LifeNET Works
LifeNET creates directory websites on subdomains of participating pro-life websites. For example, a pregnancy clinic or pro-life business might host a directory at directory.yourwebsite.com. These directories list participating organizations, creating backlinks to their sites. Our custom-built software automates this process, ensuring that as new organizations join, their listings are added across all LifeNET directories. This grows the number of unique backlinks for everyone, enhancing search rankings.
There’s no financial cost to participate—just a willingness to let us use a subdomain of your website. In return, your organization gets backlinks from dozens of other LifeNET directories, each hosted on subdomains of credible pro-life websites. This collaborative approach leverages the collective SEO value of our network, helping pregnancy clinics and others rise above the competition.
Who Can Join?
While pregnancy clinics are our primary focus, LifeNET welcomes any pro-life organization or business. Consider Ellsworth Crossing, a farmers’ market in Nebraska with over 100 vendors and pro-life owners. They joined LifeNET by hosting a directory, creating backlinks to pregnancy clinics and other pro-life groups. This shows how any pro-life entity—whether a clinic, maternity home, or supportive business—can contribute. Even if you don’t need backlinks, hosting a directory helps the cause by amplifying the network’s impact.
Why Now?
Fifteen years ago, word-of-mouth was the top way people found answers. Today, Google dominates, especially in larger communities where it’s fast, easy, and anonymous. When a woman searches for pregnancy help, we want her to find a life-affirming clinic before an abortion provider. But this window is closing. AI-driven search answers are reducing clicks to websites, and while Google remains king for now, we must act to secure strong rankings. LifeNET ensures pro-life organizations are visible when it matters most.
Join the Mission
I’m inviting you to join LifeNET today. Here’s how:
Participate: Visit proliferibbon.com/projects/lifenet/ and complete the interest form to let us create a directory on your website’s subdomain. There’s no cost—just a commitment to the cause.
Connect Others: Share LifeNET with pregnancy clinics, maternity homes, post-abortion healing groups, and pro-life businesses. The more participants, the stronger our network.
Pray: This is a spiritual battle. Pray for LifeNET to prosper and for
God’s guidance in reaching women in need.
Have questions? Call me at 520-777-1895.
Together, we can close the SEO gap, compete with the opposition, and ensure life-affirming answers are a click away. In faith,
Jacob Barr