Kirkwoodgolf
Aberdeen-based golf reporter Colin Farquharson quickly saw the potential and began contributing, and now the site covers all Ladies, Junior, Senior, Veteran, Student and Amateur golfing news. The kirkwoodgolf site has a slightly female Scottish bias but nevertheless has a world-wide following of loyal readers of both sexes, many people stumbling on it through Google and becoming firmly hooked by the eclectic mixture of up-to-the-minute golf news, quirky stories and appealing pictures of Gillian's grandchidren. The site acts as a portal to many other golf-related sites of interest, and many readers have it as their home page. The constantly updated diary format and volume of news stories which go up every day ensure a loyal and returning readership of knowledgeable golfers. The HotNews page on the kirkwoodgolf website was developed so that other people could contribute to kirkwoodgolf without the need for webmaster intervention. Colin Farquharson takes advantage of this to put up reports directly, and Gillian Kirkwood has been known to use her mobile phone to send results from the car park of tournament venues, often before the players have left the course. The site prides itself on speedy and comprehensive tournament coverage, and the HotNews service ensures that readers receive golf news as soon as it happens. We are often asked about the number of hits the site receives. In the winter months we get an average of 20,000 unique visitors per month. We peak in May to August when the total goes over 30,000 per month, and we regularly get more than 1000 unique visitors per day. On the 20th June 2006 we had over 6000 page visits in one day. We had our millionth visitor in 2006. Type "Kirkwood" into Google and the site is the third entry in more than 6,300,000. ScottishGolfView
We orginally envisaged it as a monthly webzine with a HotNews section similar to kirkwoodgolf, but soon realised that the diary/weblog format was its main appeal, and turned it round so that the front page of breaking news is the first thing that the reader sees. The Editor and main contributor Colin Farquharson provides a huge amount of golfing reports for the site, and his enthusiasm for getting golfing news out to the public has been rewarded by a growing fan-base who are hungry for golf news that they can relate to and which is not satisfied by the conventional press. Although it is in the early stages, ScottishGolfView has already built up a regular dedicated readership, and has the potential to be even bigger than kirkwoodgolf as its successful formula becomes better known. The site averages just under 300 unique visitors per day, and has peaked at just under 700 in September 2006. Already with 967 entries on Google, it won't be long before it is ranked as highly as kirkwoodgolf. Advertise on kirkwoodgolf and/or scottishgolfviewFor £15 per month per site (or £25 per month for both sites) you get a 150x300 pixel space to advertise your product, including a link to your product's website. Where else would you be able to get onto the screens of the most discerning and knowledgeable golfers in Scotland for such a small amount? It's a bargain! Contact Colin Farquharson to place an advertisement on one or both sites. |
Kirkwoodgolf was started by Gillian Kirkwood, pictured right, in April 2002, initially to report on student golf and follow the progress and successes of young Scottish golfers at college in the United States. 
ScottishGolfView started in May 2006 with Colin Farquharson, pictured right, as the Editor, and Gillian Kirkwood as the Webmaster. |
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Kirkwoodgolf is published
by Gillian Kirkwood |