I’m not really one to blow my own trumpet, but these results are so good I simply can’t resist.
Four weeks ago at the beginning of September, I launched a new web-based application - http://votewise.co.uk. The site provides election candidates a (free) platform to post there campaign manifesto, engage with voters and harvest feedback on various levels.
As the site uniquely includes all candidates from all political parties in all (well .. we’re trying) UK parliamentary and local elections, the voter can find out about all of the candidates they are being asked to choose from - well in advance of reaching the ballot box.
With all the candidate profiles having the same layout, the voter can make an informed decision based on the candidates policy, not flashy website/budget/flyer/ability to door knock.
Using the free Google webmaster tools, we’re able to track it’s ranking/search index success.
We had just over 2400 unique visitors in our first month, perusing the 20 or so elections we’ve hosted over the period, all in all for what it’s worth … about 33,000 hits.
We’ve done no advertising (it’s a free service, we can’t afford it) so our usage is governed entirely by people searching and finding us, or through word of mouth.
Our Google tool very cunningly tells us the top 20 things that people typed into the Google search box in order to ultimately find their way to us.
Things like ‘aylesham by election‘ are evidently what people living in Aylesham look for when searching for election candidate information.
Of these top 20 ‘things to look for’, all of them show a link to votewise.co.uk on page one of the search results. That’s every one of the top 20 searches, showing in the top ten - often out of thousands / tens thousands of URL’s.
Not only that, but of the top 20 ‘things people searched for and found us’ … 17 of them show a link to votewise .co.uk in the top 5.
In addition, our results are consistently appearing higher than those of big, long established websites of political parties, associations, councils and news resources.
Accessible, optimized code …. wins every time.
- BROWSE / IN TIMELINE
- « Democratic democracy?
- » mercseller.com refreshed
