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Q: What is North Vancouver and West Vancouver.com?
A: North Vancouver.com and West Vancouver.com are the foremost
online directory and search engines for the West and North
Vancouver area. West Vancouver.com has been West Vancouver's
Official Community Website since 1998, Northvancouver.com
has been in place since 2000 and people use both
sites daily to find information about real estate, accommodations,
events, restaurants, shops and more.
Q: How was North Vancouver.com / West Vancouver.com constructed?
A: West Vancouver.com was designed in four sections: Commmunity
Listings, News, Online
Shopping and Visitors
Information. These four sections mean we are attracting
both local viewers and viewers from around the world.
Q: How many people look at the websites?
A: As of November 2003, each site registers approximately
1.2 million hits each per month. This is more than any other
website in this region. We have assisted over 3,500 visitors
in finding
hotels,
restaurants and events, and we have re-directed over $45,000
of online shopping business to local retail stores and vendors.
Q: How do people find the sites? How many of those people
come back?
A: Our names say it all. Most of our viewer traffic comes
to us unreferenced, which means that people know us by name
and not just through search engines. A geographic name like
ours means that when people think about this region, they
think about our sites. We have calculated a return of 80-90%,
meaning that out of all
of
our viewers,
80-90%
of
them are
regulars
coming
back over and over again to see what we have published and
to use our search engine and directories.
Q: What do people use the most?
A: Our our most popular
page by far is our live web
camera traffic page and cruise cam page, followed by
our community listings, especially in real
estate , accommodations
and restaurants and
various retail shopping categories, like home
and garden,
sports, auto, beauty and food.
Financial pages are
actually the fastest growing, what with investments and banking
becoming so important in our lives.
Q: How does the live web cam
work?
A: The web camera transmits live images every 10 seconds
of the intersection of Taylor
Way and Marine Drive and from the North Shore in North
Vancouver which points to Canada Place. During the Alaska
cruise ship season, this camera is very busy driving traffic
to our sites - off-season, people continue to log on to
see downtown Vancouver and our inner harbour. To date, we
have collected over 4,200 letters of support and
praise
for its
effectiveness.
Q: What about the news pages,
are they popular?
A: Yes, in fact our news pages
are updated EVERY WEEK, thanks to our fabulous newspaper
partner, The North Shore Outlook. The Outlook is this area's
foremost newspaper and this partnership ensures that you
are getting the most up-to-date news available. We anticipate
more and more people will use these pages in the
future as
we
begin
to add more real time streaming video
events and photo
items each month.
Q: Tell me more about the community
events calendar.
A: Our calendar lists dates and times for
many of the local events going on this area. It is free
to submit an event and we happily post information from
all kinds of sources. If you're looking for free shows,
art
galleries, car rallies, music, concerts, wine tastings or
other activities, this is the place to look.
Q: How does the Online Shopping
section work?
A: We have pre-screened and selected a handful of local merchants
from which we choose to shop for goods on behalf of our
viewers.
We've discreetly delivered items to radio and television
personalities, musicians, sports athletes and movie stars.
Our service is
probably one of the best kept secrets around. Quite simply,
someone can order chocolates for mom or champagne for friends
from anywhere in the world. We add on our delivery fee, go
and buy the goods from the store and deliver it to their
door.
It's simple and elegant and, more importantly, it keeps business
here in the community where it belongs. We support local
merchants
and it shows. In fact, our newest online shopping model will
allow local business to place their goods up for sale through
the site and sell the to our customers without having to
build an e-commerce site of their own. Phone us at (604)
926-9293 for more details about this exciting new program.
Q: What visitors services
do you have?
A: Visitors and vacationers have the option
to fill out a visitors
reservation form where they tell us what kind of room
they are looking for and for what dates. We then use that
information to help them book their accommodations and find
things to do while on holidays. We receive about 500 forms
each month during peak times.
Q: How does the West Vancouver.com search
engine work?
A: Every name, directory listing and page is logged by our
computers daily, so when you are looking for something specific,
use these pages and you'll be immediately taken there.
Q: So, even if I only have a free listing on your site, viewers
can find me?
A: Absolutely, that's what a GOOD search
engine does. There is no way to trick this system by keyword
misrepresentation or by buying your way up the ladder to a
good position.
Q: What's the difference between a GOOD search engine and
a BAD search engine?
A: Search engines can be difficult to understand. Some of
the most popular ones out there will never perform well because
people can buy their way to the top. They simply pay more
per click and the company will list them at the top. We call
these search engines "BAD" because they have very
little to do with site content, do not consistently return
the best results and the margin for error is great. On the
other hand, "GOOD" search engines take a real look
at your site, determining what your content is really about
and place you, in the proper category, accordingly. The better
your site functions, the better your ranking.
Q: Does North Vancouver.com / West Vancouver.com pay to be
part of other search engines?
A: No. We will never pay, or buy, our way to the top. Our
names say it all. We consistently rank in the top ten of all
major search engines and feel there is no need to pass on
to our clients the enormous advertising costs associated with
this pay-per-click trend which is both uneffective and unethical.
Real search engines, like what we have here, are the way of
the future and the ONLY way to consistently guarantee reliable
returns.
Q: How do I get started? Where do I join?
A: Start by filling out a free
listing request form and get yourself on the search engine
today? If you want to attract even more business, consider
talking to our sales department about one of our other products
or services.
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