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We want to be among the first to congratulate the staff of the Yarmouth Vanguard for their part in helping to win four prestigious awards in the National Competition of the Canadian Community Newspapers Association.
The Canadian Community Newspapers Association is the national voice of the community press in Canada, and represents more than 700 English-language community newspapers, with a combined circulation of more than 12 million copies per week. The CCNA is dedicated to the excellence, credibility and economic well being of Canadian community newspapers through leadership, education, and communication.
The Yarmouth Vanguard has won three first-place awards and one second-place award in the annual Canadian Community Newspapers Association’s national competition.
Vanguard associate editor Tina Comeau took first-place honours in the best photo essay category and placed second in best feature series category. (Congratulations Tina!)
Vanguard Editor, Fred A. Hatfield, won the national award for best local editorial.
A series of advertisements written, designed and photographed by the news staff to highlight this newspaper’s sports coverage earned top honours in the best in-house promotion category in the Vanguard’s circulation class.
The three first place awards, were the most awarded to any one newspaper in any circulation class east of Ontario, in the premier awards categories!
The Vanguard was one of only four newspapers in all of Canada to receive three first-place premier awards!
The Vanguard has earned numerous awards in regional and national competitions since its founding in 1966. This is the first time the newspaper has won three premier awards in a year.
There were 3,308 entries in the various categories and winners were announced on Monday, March 12th, 2007.
Personal Acceptance of the Awards will be made easier by the CCNA which is, for the first time, offering each first-place winner in the Premier Award categories and Campus Division one night’s accommodation and a complimentary day pass on Friday, May 11th, 2007 in Winnipeg at the 88th annual Canadian Community Newspapers Association (CCNA) National Convention.
The pass gives the recipient full access to the day’s professional development sessions and networking opportunities, including the exhibit area, CCNA Presidents luncheon, and Better Newspapers Competition Awards banquet. So we can expect even better from the Vanguard Staff who will undoubtedly attend for the personal acceptance of these prestigious awards.
Congratulations to you all!
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Brian Hurlburt
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YarmouthCounty.com Receives Over 100,000 Visitors
YarmouthCounty.com, a Southwest Nova Scotia website providing information and resources for residents, businesses and visitors, to Yarmouth County and surrounding areas has received over 100,000 visitors since launched on April 12, 2005.
These visitors average 3.1 visits/visit and view 14.28 pages per visit. That means YarmouthCounty.com has had over 329,000 visits and over 1.5 million page views in just under two years online!
Webmaster Brian Hurlburt says, “When I started the Yarmouth County website, I had no idea that we’d gain so much attention in such a short period of time!”
When asked what he credits as the central reason for the website’s success, Hurlburt answers, “Well, I’d like to say I’ve done everything right! But when I started out, I had no idea what I was up against. I had no idea what I would have to learn to survive. In my case, the local church, not-for-profit and arts community got hold of our free services, and they continued to support us by telling their friends. Thanks to that, we have a huge number of loyal supporters today and that is the biggest contributing factor to our success.
A closer look however, shows that Hurlburt is being a bit modest. He is totally self taught, and yet the search engine optimization and online track record is remarkable. Domaintools.com shows YarmouthCounty.com with a SEO Score of 91% and meta relevance of 100%. These figures are important, as the SEO score and meta relevance are used by search engines to determine the overall worth and search placement listing of a website.
As a result, Widexl.com records Google as listing YarmouthCounty.com as number 1 out of over 1,240,000 results for the search term “Yarmouth County.” Widexl.com also shows YarmouthCounty.com as having a total of 1,224 links for yarmouthcounty.com. The total number of pages indexed for yarmouthcounty.com are now 11,015.
The higher the number of links a website has and the more pages indexed by search engines, the more likely the site is to be found online.
These stats are independently provided, and it takes a knowledgeable and skillful webmaster to maintain these figures over time, as Brian Hurlburt has with YarmouthCounty.com.
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Brian Hurlburt
YarmouthCounty.com
customerservice@YarmouthCounty.com
Box 1870 RR#1
2051 Hwy 1
Yarmouth NS
B5A 4A5
902-749-6701
Technical Information and Independant Web Site Stats.http://whois.domaintools.com
| SEO Score: | 91% |
| Terms: | 617 (Unique: 320, Linked: 148) |
| Links: | 74 (Internal: 49, Outbound: 25) |
http://www.widexl.com
keyword-ranking
| Search Engine | Placed | Rank | Competing Pages | Url Found |
| yes | 1 | 1,240,000 | ||
| Yahoo! | yes | 4 | 1,300,000 | |
| MSN | yes | 1 | 604,035 |
| Google Result | Keyword(s) found in | ||||
| Rank | Url | PR | Title | Domain | Url |
| 1 | http://yarmouthcounty.com/ | 0 | 100% | 100% | no |
| 2 | http://www.destinationsouthwestnova.com/ | 5 | no | no | no |
| 3 | http://www.yarmouth.org/villages/index.htm | 3 | 100% | 50% | no |
| 4 | http://www.yarmouth.org/ | 4 | 50% | 50% | no |
| 5 | http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/muns/info/mapping/YARMJ.asp | 4 | no | no | no |
| 6 | http://yarmouthcountymuseum.ednet.ns.ca/ | 5 | 100% | 100% | no |
| 7 | http://www.rootsweb.com/~nsyarmou/ | 3 | 100% | no | no |
| 8 | http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?cid=1083346991211&… | 3 | 100% | no | no |
| 9 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarmouth_County,_Nova_Scotia | 5 | 100% | no | 100% |
| 10 | http://brianhurlburt.wordpress.com/ | 0 | 100% | no | no |
Total links for yarmouthcounty.com are 1972
| Total links for yarmouth.org are 407 – Alexa traffic rank – Wayback machine go way back Total links for yarmouthguide.com are 23 – Alexa traffic rank – Wayback machine go way back Total links for yarmouthcounty.com are 1224 – Alexa traffic rank – Wayback machine go way back |
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| Report ID# 152149 Search Time# 1 seconds. |
| yarmouth.org Google/AOL 406, Yahoo 12, AllTheWeb 2530, AltaVista 2560, MSN 274 pages. yarmouthguide.com Google/AOL 2080, Yahoo 7, AllTheWeb 8, AltaVista 8, MSN 1020 pages. yarmouthcounty.com Google/AOL 3870, Yahoo 1747, AllTheWeb 2550, AltaVista 2640, MSN 208 pages. |
| Total pages indexed for yarmouth.org are 5782 Total pages indexed for yarmouthguide.com are 3123 Total pages indexed for yarmouthcounty.com are 11015 |
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So, for YarmouthCounty.com, this has been Brian Hurlburt, and I invite you to Make it a great day!
Sincerely,
Brian Hurlburt
customerservice@yarmouthcounty.com
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