NC Tourism

I will  use this page to monitor the progress of local governments to attract tourist to Nevada County.  I will track the reach of County and City sponsored tourism web sites as reported on Alexa, a web traffic tracking site. I will also add Quantcast tracking once the web sites attract enough traffic to register activity.  I will also plot the increases/decreases in tourism employment as reported in the Nevada County Business News. 

Update: Latest Food and Beverage Employment at bottom of post – essential flat.

Go Nevada County Reach when BoS Approved Contract to Shannon Pelline (10-25-11):

As you can see the Alexa Traffic Ranking estimates is rather high and only 12 sites are linked to the Go Nevada County site.

Here is are the numbers the week after the Pelline contract was signed (11-16-11):

As you can see the rank estimate has declined by 459, 829 and added one link.

Here is are the numbers 30 day after the Pelline contract was signed (12-18-11):

This is the site status on over 60 days after the Pelline Contract was signed. (01-26-12)

In 60 days of the Pelline Contract the rank has slipped 508,637, with 1 linked site added.

Here is the status after 90 days:

The Go Nevada County Team have improved their ranking by 88,945 and added 5 more linked in sites.

The Alexa Traffic Rank estimates shows how popular that a target site is when compared to the other sites on the web. The lower the number, the higher your rank. The perfect store would be One. Once more estimates are available we can look at more details like the number of page views and how long a reader stays on the page. The Search Analytics section will show what search terms are being used to find the site. The audience data will show what kind of visitors are attracted to the site. But, first we need visitors to visit the site. Stay Tuned.

Go Grass Valley Reach on date of gonevadacounty.com approval:

Here is are the numbers for gograssvalley.com on (11-16-11).

 

While the rank improved by 27,859 and add 2 more links.

Go Nevada County Site status on 01-26-12:

In 60+ days the rank has slipped by 107,840 while they added 9 more linked in sites.

Here is the Grass Valley results after 90 days:

Go Grass Valley had dropped an amazing 4,873,099 in ranking, with a gain of two linked in sites.

These are only samples, the real number will more interesting if the County and City would share the real numbers. I am going to request they post them, since these sites were build with taxpayers money. We deserve to know if it was spent wisely.

Nevada County Business News Top Fifty:

Note:  Since the Pelline Contract let at at the end of October to increase tourism in Nevada County, tourism related jobs have not increased.  Note these are not estimates but direct interviews of business owners. Stay tuned for the latest numbers when the Nevada County Business News is published.