The Community directory section of Basingstoke-Now.co.uk has been designed specifically to meet the needs and requirements for people in the Basingstoke area. The website gives community groups the opportunity to market their group and activities over the Internet in a unique way via the use of dynamic full-page listings. Community group listings are search engine friendly and provide a unique way to reach a local audience.
Community Groups can harness search engine traffic including Google, Yahoo, or MSN quickly and efficiently. Basingstoke-Now.co.uk is optimized for all major search engines and can increase traffic to your community group listing, website, and phone number. Using deep links, keyword phrases, slogans, and social media, your listing can easily be found online. In fact Basingstoke-Now currently receives nearly 10,000 visitors every month, that’s over 100,000 a year!
Expand Your Marketability
According to Research, nearly 50% of UK households now use the Internet when searching for local products and services, when they use search engines the majority use a location in their search like Basingstoke. In fact, it is projected that over 20 billion searches for local information will be made in the coming year.
Cutting Edge Content
By using a simple control panel, you can create a community group listing that is packed with information, documents, images, and much more. Community Groups have a multitude of things to worry about including how to best promote their activities on and offline. By using the internet to post sophisticated community group listings, they can increase the profile of their activity to the largest possible audience and therefore increase memberships and/or funds.
Search Engine Strategy
Basingstoke-Now places a lot of importance in many search engines and spends time increasing the results on many of the important keywords for the Basingstoke area. Each community group listing is submitted for inclusion in dozens of search engines – We aim to get in the top ten results with important keywords recommended by the search engines for the area. We use a combination of search strategies and manual submission, Basingstoke-Now's aim is to help you rank high in major search engines such as Google.
Niche Traffic
Basingstoke-Now allows Community Groups to display all their activities on an ongoing basis for the duration of their membership. We also allow contact information, images, documents, reviews, and much more to be placed in the listing of the community directory. Potential members can search by typing any keyword from your listing easily from any page in the community directory section. This gives your group exposure to new members or visitors that they would otherwise never have access to.
Local Traffic
Gaining local traffic is easy. Community Group listings are equipped with:
• Basingstoke-Now traffic - capitalize on an established marketplace of local traffic. Basingstoke-Now is partnered with many other local websites and community magazines that syndicate our content using RSS feeds and special search boxes.
• Communication Tools - displaying resourceful contact information over the web is crucial for membership generation. Our experience in what works and what doesn't is crucial in helping your group. Community Group listings benefit from mapping, web links, and email forms and are a few of the ways that potential members can use the listings to communicate with you.
• Content Items - community group listings are equipped with powerful content capabilities which the search engines prefer and this helps increase the rankings for your group.
• Large Group Benefits - Basingstoke-Now is part of a large group of community websites which will number over 400 in total. This group covers the whole of the UK and with links from every site if someone is wishing to move to this area then they will know they can easily find the information by clicking through from their local site.
• Local Search Tools - community groups can harness local search engine traffic on Google, Yahoo, or MSN quickly and efficiently. Basingstoke-Now is optimized in all of the major search engines and can increase traffic to your community group listing, website, and phone number. Using deep links, keyword phrases, slogans, and social media, your profile can easily be found online.
Not Convinced Yet?
If you’re still not convinced then try these keywords in Google:
- Basingstoke motoring
- Bluebeckers Basingstoke
- Harry Ross Basingstoke
- and many other terms that community group listings are winning with.
Please also consider that life blood of a community group is members, so it makes sense to list your group on the Basingstoke-Now website if you want to make the best impression on the thousands of internet users in the Basingstoke area.
You can list all of your community group details on the Basingstoke-Now website for a whole year, for FREE.
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Just give us a call on 01256 398745 or email us on sales@basingstoke-now.co.uk
