For Funeral Homes and Cremation Services

What It Is

My Local Obits is a daily reading of local obituaries. People choose the towns they care about and see the recent obituaries from the funeral homes and cremation services there: the name, date, age, town and your funeral home’s name. Selecting a name opens the obituary on your own website.

How It Helps You Reach Families

• Every click lands on your website. The full obituary, service details, condolences, and flower and memorial orders all stay with you and the family.
• Nothing is taken from you. Only the name, date, age, town and your funeral home’s name are listed. The family-approved obituary lives in one place: your site.
• People follow your community. Someone who grew up in your town and moved away can follow it and see every obituary you publish, the day it appears.
• They are told when you post. Readers can be notified when a new obituary appears, or in a morning or evening digest, so more people learn of a death in time to attend the service, send flowers or leave a condolence.
• Your name is on every listing. Each entry shows your funeral home’s name, so the community sees who is caring for its families.
• Veterans are recognized. When your site marks a veteran, a small flag appears beside the name.
• It asks nothing of the family. No account, no sign-in and no app store. It opens in any browser and can be added to a phone’s home screen.

How It Helps You Get Found Online

• Your own page. Your funeral home has a page listing your recent obituaries, with a link to your website.
• Your town’s page. Each town you serve has a page, such as “Kerrville, TX Obituaries”, listing your families’ names and linking each one to you. These are the searches people actually type.
• Links that point to you. Every listing is a link from another website to yours. Search engines treat links like these as a sign that your site is the trusted source.
• Readable by search and answer engines. The pages are plain, fast and clearly labeled, so both traditional search engines and the newer question-answering tools can read them. The trail leads to your website.
• An alternative to the aggregators. Large obituary sites collect your families’ obituaries and keep the visitor, the flower order and the advertising. My Local Obits exists to send people to you, and never links to those sites or to social media.

What You Need to Do

Nothing. Your obituaries are read from your website as you publish them, and corrections or removals you make there follow through. There is no second place to enter anything.

Your Listing and Banner Code

Find your funeral home to see your page on My Local Obits and get the code for the free “Follow Our Obituaries” banner. When a visitor selects the banner, My Local Obits opens with your funeral home followed and your obituaries first, and they can choose to be told when you post the next one.

The banners in every size: 728 × 90 (dark) · 970 × 90 (dark) · 468 × 60 (dark) · 320 × 100 (dark) · 320 × 50 (dark) · 300 × 250 (dark) · 336 × 280 (dark) · 250 × 250 (dark) · 300 × 600 (dark) · 160 × 600 (dark).

To confirm how your funeral home appears, or to ask that it not be listed, write to mylocalobits@directorscorner.app.