Events n Wales 3 months on

by EventsnWales | 19 Jul, 2015 | Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, EventsNWales, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Wrexham

So Events n Wales has now been live for over 3 months and it is great to look back to see the range of events from around Wales that have already been listed on the website. We really do want the website to be a success and help businesses, charities, individuals and organisations to reach more people through Wales or to make more people aware of events being held. To do this we combine the fact of allowing members to list events which then become part of the website and are crawled by search engines all over the world. We make sure that we try to help the listings by making slight changes to the content or description to help with them get found on these search engines. As a result we wanted to just share a few of the different search terms that our website has shown up for and the website has made an impression on search engine results. (Results have been taken from Google Analytics)

Since 1st March (Launch of Events n Wales) until the 18th July 2015 we have made impressions on over 178 different queries which average over that period in the Top 10 for that search (325 different search queries in total). We won’t bore you with the list of the 178 but are going to list a number of them to give you an idea of the broad range of ways that people can find your listing even when not looking for it as all of the search queries present a way to the website and all the listings on it. So here goes :

• eventsnwales
• “brian mayo” or “@brianmayo” or “brianmayo” -“mayo-smith”
• trekfest
• tiffany stevenson
• focus wales 2015, focus personal training, 22 april
• nwales
• moving on together
• creative 7s
• gauntlet games cardiff
• go dad run 2015
• llanidloes 7s
• father’s day bike ride
• fathers day charity
• newport slides
• peterstone lakes golf
• royal variety
• eezee riders
• illyria: `the taming of the shrew`, north wales tourism ltd, 11 july
• fonmon castle dog show
• weir laundry
• dalmatian ride 2015
• walkathon anglesey 2015
• monmouth aquathlon 2015
• gyg karting ltd cerrigydrduion
• welsh disabled golf
• onesie walk cardiff
• abergavenny triathlon 2015
• north wales stages
• ty hafan onesie
• wales onsie walk
• neath comedy festival
• castell beat 2015
• kidwelly carnival 2015
• creative rugby 7s
• dirty dozen races
• ty hafan welsh 3 peaks
• the laugharne weekend
• bobath dragon boat race 2015
• castlefest uk 2015

And a lot more, but as you can see from some listed above by listing your event on our website you can be found when people are not searching for your actual event and this was one of our aims for setting up the website to help people reach further than they normally can. Without the help of all of those that list the events from around Wales we would have nothing to share or shout about so we thank you all for signing up for a membership and listing your own events.

Where do Events n Wales Visitors come from?

We have 89.92% of visitors from the UK

1.	United Kingdom	2,480	89.82%
2.	United States	148	5.36%
3.	(not set)	31	1.12%
4.	Russia	28	1.01%
5.	France	10	0.36%
6.	India	9	0.33%
7.	Netherlands	7	0.25%
8.	Germany	6	0.22%
9.	Spain	6	0.22%
10.	China	5	0.18%

Which is then split by Country within the UK (some closer to the border with England may show as England depending on IP address)

We have had nearly 5,000 page views since the website was launched which is a great start, which is growing month on month. With a comparison 72.4% of new visitors to 27.6% of returning visitors from over 2,400 visitors to Events n Wales.

Our Social media accounts are also growing with over 1.7k followers on Twitter, slower over on Facebook at 346, On Pinterest we have over 300 following our boards which every event gets pinned to at least one. With only very recently set up our Google+ page we would love more followers on that Platform.

Why do we ask you to list events instead of searching for events to list ourselves?

The reason that we have the membership system and events are listed the way they are is because we want to help those that want to promote events around wales that don’t always get the opportunity to be listed on the larger websites or that have to pay to advertise the event. We want to help take some of the stress away from helping to get your events out to the public, businesses and organisations that may be interested in it. But by building the community that we are events are being shared by others that also list or connected via social media, so the reach becomes wider and the events that are listed have a more detailed description than if we just found events and listed them ourselves.

Advertising available on Events n Wales

As part of the website and to be able to keep the website free to list events we do have an Advertising membership which is open to any businesses, organisations based in Wales that may like the opportunity to advertise on the events and blog posts pages which is done on a rotation basis. You can read more about this on our membership page.

We also have Website Sponsorship available and to be honest without the support of our first website sponsors Harris Associates SW Ltd we would not have lasted this long, the hours that are put in to the website and social media and costs of running and promoting the website really do need the backing of more but we hope that this will come in time. With more sponsorship and advertising taken up the more we will be able to help promote the website through even more paid promotion and advertising and extend the reach of the events listed as well as the number of visitors to the website and promote our Website sponsors at the same time.

If you have any questions the best way to contact us is via email which you can find on the website or via our contact us page.