1. Introduction.
During January 2006 I visited Victoria and NSW and enlisted the support of more Hosts. These new Hosts together with new Area Pages, will appear on www.australianhomestay.com over the next 3 weeks.
The presence of these new pages will increase our ranking with search engines and will also fill in some gaps on our routes pages so that prospective guests will have more choices.
In January 2006 www.australianhomestay.com received 5,426 individual visitors to the web site compared to 3,364 in January 2005.
Visits were received from 43 different countries..
2. Statistics.
The daily average visitor rate during January 2006 was over 175 compared to a daily average of 108 during January 2005.
The higher the daily visitor rate, the more likely it is that bookings will result.
Go to: http://www.nzhomestay.co.nz/enews.html to see what a high visitor rate can achieve in the way of forward bookings. (This sister web site received more than 700 visitors a day in January 2006).
3. General.
I will be making further visits to Victoria, NSW and Queensland during 2006 to continue the steady build up of www.australianhomestay.com. I will be contacting selected Hosts in advance to make appointments.
It is best for all concerned for us to actually view Host’s properties and personally consult with Hosts to ensure that we provide the best representation of that property on our web site.
