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A Bit About Our Traffic
Where we are...and where we're going!
There's an old adage that says something to the effect of "Statistics never lie, but liars use statistics" and all too often, especially when it comes to website stats, a lot of websites talk "hits" or use other misleading data to inflate the real effectiveness of their advertising campaigns.
Here at SkiSoutheast.com, and our sister "winter snow web presence"—made up of
SkiNorthCarolina.com,
SkiSoutheast.com,
HighCountryWebCams.com and
HighCountryWeather.com—we have a server-side version of Urchin statistics running that tracks every unique visitor, how many and what pages they visit, and time spent on pages, etc. For those unaware, Google liked Urchin so much that they bought the company and made it the backbone of their popular Google Analytics programming.
Here are the numbers pulled directly from Urchin for the 2009-2010 ski season:
| Period |
Unique Visitors |
Avg. Visitors per Day |
Pages Viewed |
| October
2009 |
599,757 |
19,347 |
4,798,056 |
| November
2009 |
516,630 |
17,221 |
4,133,040 |
| December
2009 |
1,613,457 |
52,047 |
12,907,656 |
| January 2010 |
1,461,185 |
47,135 |
11,689,480 |
| February
2010 |
1,151,276 |
41,117 |
9,210,208 |
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March 2010 |
980,344 |
31,624 |
7,842,752 |
| Full Season (Oct-March) |
6,322,649 |
34,739* |
50,581,192 |
* 34,739 is the daily
average for the full Oct 1st through
Mar 31st period which constitutes
182 days. Ski season is typically
120-150 days!
We saw peak visitation days that
were in excess of 100,000 visitors
twice due to heavy snowfall days.
The averages shown are full 29-31
day averages with lower visitation
days coming on Sundays through
Tuesdays.
Here are the numbers pulled directly from Urchin for the 2008-2009 ski season:
Full Season (Oct-Mar): 5,791,018
visitors / 42,385,446 Pages Viewed /
31,818 Average Visits per day!
SO OUR TRAFFIC
CONTINUES TO GROW!!!
Our traffic is built on the top search engine ranking that we have. Yahoo! reveals that we have more than 23,301 inbound links directing traffic to us. According to Google the figure is 18,500 websites linked to us. Either way, that is the most of any ski web presence east of the Rockies.
We have strong relationships with hundreds of newspaper, magazine, and television stations who use our content and we're growing those relationships even farther for the 2009/2010 season! We expect that to raise our visitorship and outreach even further.
Our sites maintain STRONG year-round traffic as well! As crazy as it sounds, we received 24,554 unique visitors in JUNE 2009 with more than 160,195 page views on SkiSoutheast.com alone! On any day during the summer you can see an average of 45-60 people posting messages on our ski message board! ...On a ski website...in JUNE!
We are offering many NEW advertising options for the 2009/2010 ski and snowboarding season. We DO have some special programs available wherein we can provide simple accommodations/text links that can fit most any budget.
 Contact
us today and we can have your ad and
web page running within 24 hours and
directing more traffic to your business than ever before! Call 828.963.7286, email us or use our advertising request form and we'll be happy to assist you. We accept Visa, Mastercard and checks.
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