The Southport Times

The Southport Times

The Southport Times is an online city guide for Southport, NC. W3X Media conceived, developed and deployed The Southport Times as an in-house project in April of 2004. W3X Media continues to operate this site as an in-house project.

W3X Media provides ongoing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for The Southport Times. The Southport Times consistently ranks in the top 10 search results on Google for it's prime keywords and receives all of it's traffic through organic search results (i.e. The Southport Times does not pay for any of it's website traffic).

The Southport Times has over 4,800 pages of information pertaining to the Southport, NC area.

The site has earned a Google PageRank of 4, with almost 10,000 incoming links.

W3X Media also manages The Southport Times' Facebook and Twitter pages.

This site is monetized using pay-per-impression advertising, pay-per-click advertising, affiliate marketing and local advertising.

The Southport Times owns an extensive collection of Historic Southport Postcards, which is also managed by W3X Media. On April 12, 2012, The Southport Times announced their postcard collection will be featured in a local history book about the Southport, NC area. The book will be titled Postcard History Series: Southport, Oak Island and Bald Head Island and will be published by Arcadia Publishing located in Mount Pleasant, SC, just outside of Charleston. W3X Media will be handling the coordination between the author of the book, the publisher of the book and The Southport Times.

The Southport Times website receives over 720,000 visitors per year, serves over 5,000,000 page views per year and has over 12,000,000 server hits per year.

Visit The Southport Times At:
http://www.SouthportTimes.com

Skillsets Used For This Project:
Affiliate Advertising
bitly
Blog Management
Blogger
Commission Junction
Custom Google Mapping
Domain Registration
Facebook
Feasibility Studies
General Consulting
Google AdSense
Google Analytics
Google Custom Maps
Google Per-Per-Click Advertising
Hosting
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
iContact
Microsoft FrontPage
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Outlook Express
Monetization
Paint Shop Pro
Pay-Per-Lead Advertising
Per-Per-Click Advertising
Per-Per-Impression Advertising
Project Conception
Project Development
QuickBooks
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Site Analytics
Social Media Management
Twitter
ValueClick Media
Website Analytics and Reporting
Website Content Management
Website Design
Website Maintenance