Notes on Promoting Website and Website Performance
The site has now been running since autumn 2004 so has seen 4 Summer seasons of sales.
A considerable amount of effrot has gone into promoting website performance with aid this website 's website promoting services
Last year ( 2007) results were:
Total weeks advertised: 30
Weeks removed for use or RCI : 5
Number of weeks
Unsold: 4
Number of week sold: 21
This meaning that 84% of weeks advertised until the start of the holiday were sold. - an incredibly good result!
This year (2008) results so far are:
Total weeks advertised: 30
Weeks removed for use or RCI :
4
Number of weeks unsold: 6
Sold: 20
This meaning that 77% of weeks advertised until the start of the holiday were sold. - not quite so good but still very respectable and probably understandable with the economy in demise.
Year on year the number of visitors to the site has increased and for 2008 we should get close to 80,000 unique visitors by the end of December
If the pattern of interest is similar to last year.
Previous years results may be reviewed at http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/narrowboat_interface/Review/results_page.asp which may help with pricing .
Rankings on the U.K. pages of various search engines 1/10/08
| Engine | Page | Search Term | Position |
| AltaVista | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal barge hire | 1 | |
| AltaVista | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | Canal barge holidays | 1 | |
| G00gle | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal barge hire | 1 | |
| MSN | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal barge hire | 1 | |
| MSN | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | Canal barge holidays | 1 | |
| Yahoo | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | Canal barge holidays | 1 | |
| G00gle | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | Canal barge holidays | 2 | |
| Dogpile |
|
canal barge hire | 3 | |
| Dogpile | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | Canal barge holidays | 4 | |
| G00gle | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal boat hire | 4 | |
| G00gle | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | narrowboat hire | 4 | |
| MSN | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/performance.htm | canal barge hire | 6 | |
| Ask | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | Canal barge holidays | 7 | |
| MSN | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal boat hire | 7 | |
| Ask | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal barge hire | 8 | |
| MSN | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | narrowboat hire | 8 | |
| MSN | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/Canal%20boat%20Holidays.htm | Canal barge holidays | 8 | |
| MSN | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | narrowboat holidays | 9 | |
| AltaVista | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/Canal%20boat%20Holidays.htm | Canal barge holidays | 11 | |
| Yahoo |
|
Canal barge holidays | 11 | |
| MSN | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal boat holidays | 12 | |
| Dogpile | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | narrowboat hire | 13 | |
| Ask | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | narrowboat holidays | 16 | |
| G00gle | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal boat holidays | 16 | |
| G00gle | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | narrowboat holidays | 16 | |
| Ask | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal boat hire | 18 | |
| Dogpile | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/CanalboatHolidays.htm | Canal barge holidays | 18 | |
| Dogpile | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | canal boat hire | 19 | |
| Ask | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/Canal%20barge.htm | Canal barge holidays | 25 | |
| Ask | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk | narrowboat hire | 26 | |
| Dogpile | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/performance.htm | canal barge hire | 27 | |
| MSN | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/available.htm | narrowboat hire | 29 | |
| AltaVista | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/Barge.htm | canal barge hire | 30 | |
| Yahoo | http://www.canalbarge.co.uk/Barge.htm | canal barge hire | 30 |