ADVERTISING ON THIS SITE

If your business is BS27-based, you can have a free "lineage" entry in the A to Z pages, simply send over a few lines of descriptive text, contact email, address and local telephone number, plus a link to your web site if you have one, and it will be added to the site free of charge. You can use the submission form for this. Check the business A-Z or accommodation listings to see what other people have written, if you need inspiration.

To give you some idea of the number of visitors this site receives, the green area of the graph below shows the number of weekly page loads over the period July 2005 to July 2006 - around 3000 pages viewed every week in summer, dropping to around 1000 in winter. In 2008 the site received 144,102 page loads, almost 400 per day. To see the current live stats, go to www.statcounter.com and log in as "cheddarvillage" with password "cheddar". Click on the little histogram icon to see visitor numbers summarised by week, month or year.

BANNER ADVERTISING

For Cheddar-based or strongly Cheddar-Village-related businesses there is also the possibility to have a banner advertisement appear in the main pages' margin. The cost is £20 per year + VAT including setting up or changing an annual ad. You can track its effectiveness in your web site statistics service by monitoring hits received from cheddarvillage.co.uk. If you advertised on the cheddarsomerset.co.uk site please get in touch to reinstate your advert artwork here. Contact the webmaster to set this up. If you advertise in the printed Cheddar Village Map and Guide, your ad artwork can also be placed on this site; contact Keith Landon about that when booking your space.

You can also advertise here with Google Adwords if your site is closely linked to the subject matter of Cheddar Village. You will be able to create an advert for your business which will often appear in the footer or margin of these pages and also on many other web sites that show Google adverts. Your ad will then also be shown to users of Google Search, Google Gmail, Froogle, and Google Desktop Search, as well as on the sites of Google's partner companies (including AOL, Lycos, and Ask Jeeves).

For more information on setting up an Adwords account and/or having one created and managed on your behalf, contact the webmaster .

LINK CHECKING

In the interest of ensuring this site remains the most useful resource for Cheddar residents and visitors, all external links from this site are checked on an automated basis, every month. So if a tourist attraction or other local facility's web site becomes inaccessible, the problem will be investigated and the link either removed or replaced within a few weeks. Also, if your own local business or club web site has a regular (non-Adwords) link from here, this monitoring process will pick up any problems with your hosting or domain name - and if it looks like a problem you need to know about, you'll be informed by email or phone. If you do however come across a broken link that has not yet been reported, by all means use the main contact form to send the details over.

COOKIES and PRIVACY

This web site uses cookies - small text files of information - which are placed on visitors' computers during your time on the web site, to provide information about effectiveness of advertising, and also about how people navigate around the site and thus to help improve it for the future. No personal information is collected, other than anything you type into the contact form. If you provide personal details these will not be made available to any third parties nor used for any marketing purposes.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to not having this information used by these companies, click here.