Categories: General
Date: Feb 3, 2010
Title: Visits to MightyMiramichi.com Break the 100,000 Barrier
Mighty Miramichi is excited to announce that January visits to the MightyMiramichi.com website were at an all-time high with 102,794 visits.
"Visits are not the same as hits," explains president, Terry Matchett. "We had over 4 million hits to the website in January, but hits are not a true representation of how many people are visiting a site. Hits is a technical term and should not be used when discussing how often a website is viewed, as it is misleading."
Of the 102,794 visits, 72% were from Canada, with the majority of those coming from NB (72%), Nova Scotia (11%) and Ontario (8%). Five per cent of the overall visits were from the US, 4% from China, and 19% from the rest of the world.
"We started the MightyMiramichi.com website so people could learn about events and other businesses in their own back yard," says Matchett. "The Miramichi region is quite spread out geographically and what we found out was people didn't realize the services that were available from one end of the region to the other or in the next community down the road."
Community portals such as MightyMiramichi.com are a proven way to promote a community, by providing an online presence where everything is marketed collectively at one location. Repeat traffic generators such as a community calendar, funeral announcements, real estate listings, used cars for sale, classifieds, and daily restaurant specials ensure a recurring stream of web visitors to the portal, who will then visit the websites of local businesses listed.
Inquiries made through MightyMiramichi.com come from new residents, tourists, people moving to the area, and potential business investors checking out the region. Regardless of where they are from, more traffic to MightyMiramichi.com means more people are virtually visiting our region, searching for businesses, products & services, and potentially dropping by in-person.