GateWAy Blog

Visitors to Albany Gateway have been increasing from November to December.  See below for our December statistics;

•    Hits – Average per day 100,568 December – 97,784 November
•    Hits – Best day  153,111 December – 133,256 November
•    Page Views – Total 250,384 – December 243,326 November
•    Page Views – Average per day 8,076 December – 8,110 November
•    Average time spent on the site – 447 seconds (7.14 minutes) December
371 seconds (6.18 minutes) November

•    Demographics:
-    Total Hits from Australia 2,753,116 December 2,624,636 November
-    Total Hits from US 144,676 December 119,544 November
-    Total Hits from Great Britain 18,143 December 14,487 November

We are providing free training for all our current paid advertisers in the Albany GateWAy business directory.

This training was initially promoted in December, the first 2 dates are full, but there are a few places still left.

Computers will be supplied, you will;

> Login to change your own advertising.

> Learn about keywords and how to update, add and change photo’s and generally make the most of what Albany GateWAy can do for you.

> Bring your stuff and we will be there to show you how to do it.

Dates still available:

Mon 24 January 11:45am – 1:15pm
Tues 25 January 5:45pm – 7:15pm

To book phone 9842 9895 or email us admin@albanygateway.com.au

Christmas lights in York St Albany

Christmas Greetings and a Happy New Year!

It has been a great year at Albany GateWAy this year and we would like to thank all our regular visitors who have contributed to giving the site a sense of community.  There has been so many great stories come our way of how useful it has been in connecting everyone to local businesses, community groups, buying and selling on the classifieds and events on the calendar.

The staff and board of management wish you and your loved ones a Christmas that is bright and cheerful and a prosperous New Year!  Office and Sales Staff: Debbie McBride, Tracey Sands, Jack Hamilton
Management Committee: Dave Rowley, Vicki Brown, Barb Helsby, Julie Wallis, Trish Ryans-Taylor, Vince Calleja

Do you have a website?  Does it provide valuable information to visitors that will encourage them to stay in Albany longer or help them find stuff that you dont have on your website?  There is no need to spend hours putting all this information together and duplicating what is already available on Albany GateWAy, when all you need to do is provide a link to the relevant sections full of up to date useful information.

We have setup a LINK TO US page which provides images or html code that you can add to your website.  Help yourself, or if you have any questions about it, ask us at Albany GateWAy on 9842 9895.

Visitors to Albany GateWAy are looking for places to book on Christmas Day and after, and need to know who is open when. If you manage a restaurant or cafe that is listed on Albany GateWAy, it should only take 2 minutes to login and update your opening hours. Every time we see an update go through for a restaurant or café, we will mention it on this blog, and on Facebook too.

If you are not sure how to do this, don’t waste time thinking about it, give us a call. It is important to us that everything is as accurate and up to date as possible.

Just emailed the newsletter for December to all our GateWAy advertisers.

This months newsletter is about:

*  Your New Year’s Gift – Free Training – making the most of your Albany Gateway online advertising.
*  Like us on Facebook
*  November Statistics
*  Summer Opening Hours
*  Small Business Online Seminars

If you are a Albany GateWAy advertiser, go to your inbox and check it out, you will be glad you did.

Congratulations to Jeannine Burren from Clare Downs Stud, her name was drawn to win the competition that was open to all business and community directory advertisers on Albany GateWAy for the Peel Back ad (very top right hand corner) in the top spot for advertising on Albany GateWAy!  You will see her ad up there soon.

The prize includes the artwork for the ad being designed by Kelly Jones from i4design.  Many thanks to Kelly for taking part in this promotion.

Thanks for the response from 125 business and community organisations who entered by replying “Enter me to win $400 worth of advertising” to their AGW newsletter.  Look out for more great winning opportunities in your monthly news.

The Team at Albany GateWAy.

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded.   You may have seen this message recently when you logged onto www.albanygateway.com.au

As frustrating and annoying as this is, it also clearly demonstrates the increase in the number of visitors to the site in the last few months.  The photo competition has been hugely popular and of course uses up bandwidth.  What is really impressive is that our statistics show that people are staying on the site for an average of 6 ½ minutes per visit using the business directory, classified ads, calendar, blog and more.

So far in June (as at 11.45 on the 28th, so not far to go now) the site has received an average of 110,277 hits every day, and the best day was 161,755 hits on Monday the 21st June.   Compare this to the May average which was 107,336 hits per day, with the best day at 150,219 hits.  The most popular days to visit the site have been Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Our statistics are updated at the beginning of each month, to keep an eye on our statistics, click on this link

New Home Page Tab system

Thanks very much to all the people who attended the launch event for the new home page tab system we held last night at the Albany Business Centre.  I was so busy catching up with everyone, that I didnt get busy with the camera, so there are no pics to share.

The new tab system has been developed by Marcel from Z Networks to make it much easier to navigate through the many sections of the site, look for yourself, www.albanygateway.com.au

Feedback from our recent survey told us that many people had difficulties navigating the site, and did not realise how many different things could be done on the site.

Thanks again for all your support and feedback.  Let me remind you that this is your community web portal and you can be involved in being an active user of the site in many different ways.  Stay tuned for more soon.