The Datchet Flying Fifteens

The World's most popular fleet racing sportsboat - If you live West of London, or anywhere in the London and the South East,... and fancy giving sailing a try,... then you should look at the Flying Fifteen Fleet at Datchet. Situated near the junction of the M4 and M25, you'll find beautiful boats, friendly people and great fleet racing. Take a look at our Fleet Website (click on the top photo to the right) for more information, or visit www.flyingfifteen.com

Fancy a Trial Sail ?? Look at our Loan Boat Program by clicking the second photo on the right......

Got something you want to say on "Datchet Man"?? Just email it to datchetman@flyingfifteen.com

You can visit our Fleet Blog and Website,"DATCHET MAN", (CLICK ON FIRST PHOTO ON THE RIGHT), or go direct to WWW.FLYINGFIFTEEN.ORG and bookmark us there on your PC. Even better, make it your browser homepage....

On the website we have super Flying Fifteen Photos, and loads of information for the First-Time Flying Fifteen Sailor or for people thinking of joining our great Fleet at Datchet...

Saturday, 26 February 2011

Interest in Trial Sail Program - how are we doing?...

We embarked on trying to use the internet to promote the use of our Datchet Flying Fifteen Loan Boat Program back in November, and after a hesitant start, launched a second attempt at the website some 8 weeks ago. In around about 50 days of 'traffic' on the new website, does it look like we are addressing our objective?...

In the 8 weeks (so about 50 days) our news page (the "Home Page") has been viewed 3,000 times. My own viewings are not counted, and as I say to myself, "it can't all be us...."

The GREAT NEWS is that the next most often viewed page is "Trial Sail", with 159 views - so around 3 views a day.... I am quietly amazed...

The next most popular is the "Flying Fifteen" description page with 101 views, so around 2 per day.

And next comes 86 views on "The Datchet Fleet", quickly followed by 52 views on the "Crew Wanted/Available" page - interesting....

Quite a lot of traffic now comes through Google searches as there is more varied keyword content for it to find. So well done to all the fleet members who look in everyday and keep us looking 'busy' to search engines. I keep pointing out to myself that we are trying to address a pretty finite market here, so at some point the traffic numbers should die away somewhat. However the referrals to our website at www.flyingfifteen.com are still on a rising trend. About 13 pages a day are viewed there, and it is the photos that are currently the most popular content aside from the homepage. Visitors to that website view 2-3 pages per visit and stay on average for about two and a half minutes per visit. That's good, I think.

All pretty encouraging and this weekend a Club Member has asked of he can take a Loan Fifteen out, and we have a non-Club Member coming for a look-see....

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