Local Community Websites
Knowing the fact about your local community is essential, What can benefits can you claim? What local events are planned? How can you find information about Health Care, Child Care or Family Problems?
That's Why Community Websites are so important, supplying valuable information to communities which can be extremely hard to find on the net.
Blackpool Community is a great example of a simple, straight to the point community website that gives the straight facts, I've tried to leave out many of the Bells and Whistles, as I'm not a designer by trade I'll leave that to the big contenders and gone for what my visitors seem to enjoy.
The Blackpool Community Website gives you the chance to have your say, we want to know about your problems battling with the Town Hall, your noisy neighbors, and lets not forget the good stuff! We want to know about the latest arrival to your family and your wedding anniversary..... That's what a community website is all about!
Of course when you live in a Town like Blackpool, its easy to fill a site with useful information about attractions, events and news, however, its always a challenge to make sure that the site isn't abused and used as a landmark for every website wishing for a quick link - That's why I recommend that if you're building a Community Website you keep it real and keep it maintained manually.
Giving useful community information on a community website is easier than you think, local Town Halls and Government Organisations are great and producing stacks of leaflets and posting them through our doors, however when it comes to the web, again, advice and information is normally very hard to find, simply using information from such leaflets and local free publications is a great start. However, you should make sure that such information is not covered by Copyright laws.
Information for Visitors to your Local Town:
It's also very easy to help promote your town by supplying information on shows, special events and local attractions, over the coming months I will be Packing the Blackpool Community Website with information on such events, making it even easier for potential visitors to find information BEFORE they travel.
Listen to Feedback:
Community websites should listen to the voices of their visitors, giving the opportunity to use the pages as a local soap-box, that was my initial goal with the Blackpool Community Website, to help people have their say.
Keep Up To Date:
So many websites out their simply pack their websites with useless information in order gain a few extra visitors, this however is simply a waste of time, so many so called SEO marketers have told me that they receive literally thousands of unique visitors each day, NONE will disclose how many of these visitors return!
Keep your Community Website Up To Date with useful valuable information and visitors will return time and time again and that's a proven fact!
This article was published by Martin Bleasdale on behalf of the Blackpool Community Website http://www.blackpoolcommunity.com and may be published on any domain as long as it remains completely intact.
Martin Bleasdale has been working in the field of Website Promotions and Internet Marketing for over 10 years, The Blackpool Community Website provides free information to both residents and visitors to Blackpool and the Fylde on both welfare issues such as benefits and public services as well as information on special offers, shows and events in the Blackpool Area
