What does Membership with BlackHills.com consist of?Hits Verses Page Views: Website Server Logs record every file called from it's websites pages as a "hit".
We have a dozen main sites that all have very visible links to the following Members Areas.The main sites are: (More sites are coming all the time too!)
- Your site gets Listed in the Member Yellow Pages.
- Your site gets a "spot" in the BlackHills Virtual Mall.
- Your site gets Indexed by the BlackHills.com Search Engine.
- Your site gets Banner Ads placed in the Rotating Banner Ads on
- Discounted Dialup Access to the Internet (for most areas).
- Your site gets Linked in BlackHillsDirectory.com
- FREE Business Classified Ads in our BlackHills.com Classified Ads.
www.BlackHills.com www.BlackHills.net www.RapidCity.com www.Sturgis.com www.Spearfish.com www.Events.BlackHills.com www.BelleFourche.com www.Custer.com www.Sturgis-Rally.com www.BlackHillsWeather.com www.Deadwood-Lead.com www.Spearfish.com/canyon Together, these main sites did over 20 Million Page Views last year! A lot of that Internet traffic could have been looking for your business... did they find you?
Example: If a whole website consisted of only 1 page and that 1 page has 3 pictures on it, then the server actually records 4 "hits" everytime the page is viewed. There is 1 hit for the page itself, and 1 hit for each of the 3 pictures, for a total of 4 hits.
Therefor "hits" is not a good measure or indication of actual traffic... Page Views is a much more realistic picture of how busy a website actually is.