BardwellVillage.info would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the last 12 months of successes. Over this last year we have focussed our efforts particularly on:

1. Signing up local organisations.
2. Assisting them with publishing as much interesting content as possible.
3. Improving our rating on the main search engines and the number of visitors to the web site.

Local organisations who have signed up to publish their content online with BardwellVillage.info (in order of appearance):

1. Bardwell Playing Field Association
2. Bardwell School
3. Bardwell Church including The Friends of Bardwell Church.
4. Bardwell Parish Council
5. Bardwell Windmill (Sponsored Tim Cavell)
6. B.E.S.T. (Sponsored by Delyse Ray)
7. Bardwell Amblers
8. Church Bells Group

Beyond these, and the contributions of our dedicated team, other notable contributions have come from:

With the assistance of all these people we have built a platform to continue to build upon in future. Click the Read more link to read about our visitors and our future...  

We would also like to thank our visitors. Here's some information about the 2,650 visits to BardwellVillage.info in the last year:

Source: Google Analytics

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As the pie chart shows, we have continued to successfully raise our findability in the search engines. Our visitors spend an average of 5 minutes on our site viewing an average of 8 pages per visit. That's over 20,400 page views in the last year! A substantial 230 of those visits involved visiting 20+ pages on the web site. We have a healthy 62% proportion of new visitors to existing users interested in BardwellVillage.info.

BardwellVillage.info visitors are predominantly from the UK but we had 169 visits from the USA in the last year, and between 10 and 35 visits from Australia, France, Japan, Canada and Germany. We have received emails from the USA, Australia and Thailand thanking us for our online efforts on behalf of Bardwell village. The site offers these people the opportunity to research some of their past history with ease over the web. The Bardwell History Group is contributing to this valuable source of knowledge.

What does 2008 hold for BardwellVillage.info?

• Developing our relationship with Bardwell Village News.
• Continuing to add to the depth and breadth of content on the web site.
• Encouraging more local organisations to join our village portal.
• Increasing the advertising in the BardwellVillage.info Bardwell Directory to support our expenses for the year ahead.
• Developing fund raising opportunities for the organisations of the village of Bardwell.

Interested in getting involved?

As well as supporting our existing publishers, we are always looking for new people to publish information on the organisations in Bardwell Village. It’s a great opportunity to indulge in your creative skills or simply make a suggestion for the good of the web site and local community.

Do you have interesting material you’d like to publish? Do you have some interesting information, photographs or other material that you think others might be interested in? See this example or this example.

Do you have marketing or technical skills or want to develop them? Do you have amateur or professional marketing or technical skills that you’d like to contribute to the local community? Want to know more about us?

Do you want to advertise with us or have a page for your own local organisation?

Would you like your own mini-site like that of Bardwell Church with many pages or maybe just one page to start with like the Bardwell Windmill? Read about the ridiculously good value fees and costs here .

Would you like to advertise a business or service on BardwellVillage.info? Funds gained in excess of the expenses we incur are distributed back to the organisations who have signed up to publish on BardwellVillage.info. Only not-for-profit and charitable organisations receive such re-distributions.

Would you like to contribute to the village of Bardwell in another way?

You can contact one of the organisations on BardwellVillage.info to offer your assistance.Or, you can make a specific donation to one of the organisations on BardwellVillage.info by contacting them via BardwellVillage.info.