Local City Guide Internet Franchise

Setup a local guide

• www.Citys.info

What is Citys.info

Its an internet franchise which you can apply to your local town or city providing hotel bookings, event information, restaurant guides and reviews amongst a whole host of other information on a domain name of your choice. To see a live working example visit Swansea.info

what's in it for you?

There are various revenue streams that the portal offers:
• Hotel Booking commissions via Booking.com,
• Google Adsense for Content and Search
• Premium advertising slots.
  
  Our premium advertising slots will be your most lucrative revenue stream of which a real case example is laid out below, you can of course configure your own pricing structure for your own local version of the web site. Here is a guide as to what you could expect to earn when you sell the ad slots to local businesses.

Premium Advert	Cost	Positions Available	Monthly Total
Hot Hotels	£50/month	3	£150
Featured Hotel	£30/month	4	£120
Top Tables	£50/month	3	£150
Featured Restaurant	£50/month	1	£50
Top Bars	£50/month	3	£150
Top 10 Bars	£20/month	10	£200
Must do Activity	£75/month	1	£75
Top 10 Activity	£30/month	10	£300
Featured Business	£50/month	3	£150
Business Page Listing	£35/month	6	£210
Monthly Return @ 100% Capacity:			£1555
Monthly Return @ 50% Capacity			£777.50

We should stress that even if you don't manage to sell any of these premium positions the Adsense placements generated by Google are on a pay per click basis so should provide you with a steady revenue stream.

NOTE: Don't click on your own Adsense adverts repeatedly as Google can track this kind of behavior and will take action to remove your adsense partner status.

Setup time

From the time you place your order and we approve the area, we can have the system on a domain of your choosing within 48hours. We will need approximately 2 hours of your time to go through some local configuration details such as local area names and other minor details and then its handed over to you to start marketing with your local community. We can't emphasise enough how our experiences gained in the last 10 years has helped us to design and develop a system which is not only designed for users to easily navigate but the all important placement of your new web site in the search engines hence our Natural Search Consultant involvement from Lee Woodman.

 

Sites already running

• Swansea.info (Full Demo Site) Mumbles.co.uk Plymouth.info Portsmouth.info netCardiff.co.uk

  HayonWye.co.uk WoodbridgeTown.info Tenby.info VisitLichfield.info (Launching soon) Londons.co.uk (Launching soon)

 

Why choose us over one of our competitors?

It is simple; not only do our sites visually stand out but the engineering that has gone into the design of the management system is second to none. Ultimately our competitors are simply business directories which offer no added value to the users experience and no ability to cross sell information. The way we have engineered the platform and structured our information architecture will give us the edge when it comes to search engine placement. Above is a graph of a recent launch, this is totally organic traffic from search engines.

Our goal with our content offering if to give users something to sink their teeth into when they browse one of our sites not simply business listings.