ExploreFresno.com is a portal type website for Fresno and the Central Valley of California. We orginally built the web site in 2003 as a marketing platform to approach businesses for our web design and Internet marketing services. (before the online boom of directories.)
It was intially built to provided basic information about the Fresno area. Information such as local business listings, events, schools, travel info, local attractions, etc. The site was set up so businesses could add their contact information and get listed in the business directory. Users can go to the website and add calendar events that get added to the local events calendar. We eventually setup ExploreFresno so we could host one page web sites (business profiles) for our customers as well.
Future plans for the site include either Yahoo or Google API integrations with their local search solutions such as Google or Yahoo maps. Maintenance, site navigation improvement and URL cleanup based on a large growing amount of data. RSS news feeds for up-to-date information. Expansion of content and products based on user feedback, web analytics, and stuff we just want to add.
With local search coming to the forefront of the SEM community we are seeing an increase of traffic. The site currently averages over 30,000 unique visitors with close to 500-600,000 page views. Besides initially submitting the site to Yahoo, dmoz, and Google very little optimization and link building has been done. Most links to the site have come from people and businesses looking for a quality resource on the Fresno area. (I thank those who have built scrapers to….)
Take a look at the site Explore Fresno. If you want to buy it because you see the value in owning a site like this drop me a line.
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