Website News and Local Guide updates
The past twelve months have seen a steady increase to visitors and traffic to our Virtual Swanage website and our Facebook page has seen huge growth with both views and followers with the past month getting over 1 million views on our social media posts.
The Virtual Swanage website has received over 1.3 million visitors in the past year and this is up from 880,000 for 2024-2025.
As the website reaches its 30th anniversary, we have been very busy the past few months working on new and updated content for the website with nearly every page being updated.
As of the 26th July we now have:
47 Accommodation listings
275 Local Guide / Directory listings
1657 Gallery photos
246 Events
11 Festivals
124 Pages of local information
Local Guide and Directory
The Local Guide and Directory section has many different categories for the listings and the free entries can be listed in up to two categories.
We currently have a shortage of businesses in the following categories so if your business could benefit from advertising to over one million people every year you are welcome to submit your details to be included in the Local Guide listings.
Carpenters and Joiners - https://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/directory/carpenters-and-joiners
Gardening and Landscaping - https://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/directory/gardners-and-landscaping
Plumbers - https://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/directory/plumbers
Advisory Groups - https://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/directory/advisory-groups
Hairdressers - https://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/directory/hairdressers
Legal Services - https://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/directory/legal-services
All other types of businesses and clubs and organisations are welcome to advertise their details for free at Virtual Swanage
You can submit your details for free at https://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/new/adddirectory
Future Plans
We are also working on enhanced paid listings with will cost much less than other local tourism websites with additions including:
Visibility
- Priority placement at the top of your category
- Featured rotation on the directory homepage
- Guaranteed mentions in relevant Virtual Swanage guides & articles
- Monthly spotlight on our Facebook & Bluesky pages
Content
- Up to 5 categories
- Photo gallery with up to 10 images
- Video embed (YouTube / Vimeo)
- Extended, formatted description
- Menu / price list / brochure upload
- Booking / ordering link button