Benefits of advertising with GoWilkes.com include :
GoWilkes aggressively targets Wilkes County residents and visitors, ensuring that your
ad will be seen by people that want to see your ad.
We spend over $1000 each month in advertising for new website visitors, both
locally and on related websites. Visitors to GoWilkes.com turn into new customers for
YOU!
GoWilkes offers several interactive programs, making it a popular internet starting point
for many Wilkes County natives. This means that these visitors return several times each
day, and your ad can be seen each time!
More than 100,000 searches for local businesses are made every month, and it's important
that your business be a part of that listing! Whether someone is searching for a product or
a service, if you're not listed then you can be sure that your competition is!
Listings in the Wilkes Business Directory is limited to businesses that are either in or
specifically target Wilkes residents. Getting listed is free, but we do require that each
listing have a website (if you don't have a website, click here).
Almost every visitor that comes to GoWilkes.com makes a search of some type. Now you can
have an ad placed on any of these searches, whether the visitor is searching Wilkes Business or
searching the Web!
To get started, simply choose up to 10 key words or phrases. Your text ad will be shown at the top of the
first search page when these key words or phrases are searched for, whether the visitor is searching Wilkes
Businesses or searching the Web through the goWilkes.com website! A maximum of two sponsors may
purchase the same keywords, and some keywords can be VERY competitive. First come, first serve!
Note: these ads are only available to businesses that are either in or specifically target Wilkes residents.
The GoWilkes.com homepage is the first thing that many people in the county see when they
go online. Because of this, an ad here is very prominent, and tends to have a very high click-
through rate! These clicks turn into customers for YOU!
On average, an ad on the homepage will be shown about 6,000 times in a week, and has an
average click-through rate of about 15%. This turns into an average of 900 times that your ad
will be clicked on, in one week!
Once you sign up, you can choose to use your own graphic ad (a .gif or .jpg image, 120x120),
or we can create one for you at no additional charge.
Note: these ads are only available to businesses that are either in or specifically target Wilkes residents.
GoWilkes.com receives an average 50,000 unique visitors each week, and more than
2.5 million views each week! A graphic ad that runs throughout the website is very noticeable.
Your ad will be shown at random intervals on every page of GoWilkes, and has an average of
about 50,000 impessions a week.
While the click-through rate for this sponsorship is lower than that of the homepage, the number
of impressions is so much greater that it will usually result in more clicks. With an average click-
through rate of 2%, you can expect that your ad will be clicked on an average of 1200 times, in
one week!
Once you sign up, you can choose to use your own graphic ad (a .gif or .jpg image, 120x120),
or we can create one for you at no additional charge.
Note: these ads are only available to businesses that are either in or specifically target Wilkes residents.
