~ Pioneer publisher of tourism focused destination web sites since 1997 ~

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Number 1 Since 1997

The byronbay.com website has been visited over 12.5 million times to date and continues to service over 1 million visitor per year. We provide our visitors with useful and timely information including full details on over 300 local advertisers. Our 2011 re-vamp, not only provides immediate benefits for our visitors and clients, it's built on a frame work that will allow us to introduce more features in the near future.

Here's what people are saying about byronbay.com

"With an estimated 1.7 million visitors annually to Byron, byronbay.com's one million visitors annually represents a huge chunk of that traffic. This is a remarkable achievement for a local business, particularly given the number of tourism websites vying for attention."
Cameron Arnold, Chair of Northern Rivers Tourism.

"Byronbay.com is consistently our leading referring website"
Kerry Gunther, Sales and Marketing Manager, The Byron at Byron Resort and Spa

"We are very impressed by the results we're achieving through our byronbay.com listing. The traffic being referred to our website from byronbay.com is stronger than some of the leading search engines and more importantly of a higher quality. There are a lot of online restaurant directories out there but we have found byronbay.com to be the best."
Ben Kirkwood, Owner, Byron Beach Café

Targeted Traffic

As well as byronbay.com, we publish a number of second tier 'Byron' websites, a couple on the region outside of Byron Shire and a few national websites. Here's our traffic for 2011;

All our websites were visited over 1.6 million times in total
Our 'Northern Rivers' websites, including 'Byron' were visited over 1.4 million times
All our 'Byron' websites were visited over 1.25 million times
Our flagship site, byronbay.com was visited over 1 million times

NOTE - these are 'visits' as recorded using Google Analytics.

A Brief History;

Started in 1997, over the years we built/acquired other Byron websites, in 1999 we started www.travelpromote.com.au (published dozens of Australian destination websites) in 2004 we started a boutique phone booking service (www.byronstyle.com.au books a select range of 4 star managed properties), in 2006 we took on JV partners / bought them out of our Byron websites late 2009, and finally completed a total re-vamp of byronbay.com in July 2011.

Advertisers / Clients;

We've always prided ourselves on providing the best value for money advertising opportunities to our clients. We have over 300 advertisers, some of them have been with us from the beginning.

Community;

As a 15 year old local business we are members of, and get involved with, many of the relevant business associations and groups. We have always offered free exposure on byronbay.com for local community groups and associations.

Festivals & Events;

We love telling our visitors about the regions festivals & events. Over the years we've been able to provide exposure (and other services from time to time) for all the regions major events and festival, as well as doing our best to support the smaller events.

The Owners / Workers Are;

Rick Slater & Rick Christian, please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or want any further information. We no longer keep an office and are best contacted via our contact us page.

Cheers
Rick & Rick

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