AmericanTowns.com Surpasses 2 Million Monthly Unique Visitors; Doubles Traffic Every 6 Months

Re-Designed Site Launched with Local Twitter and Other New Content

Fairfield, CT (PRWEB) November 20, 2009

AmericanTowns.com], where residents of every town in America can find and share rich local information about their communities, today announced continued progress in several key metrics as of October, 2009.

• AmericanTowns.com traffic has continued to double every 6 months, reaching over 2 million unique visitors in October. (Source: Google Analytics; excludes partner sites with our content.)
• Now ranked in the top 750 US websites by Quantcast, AmericanTowns.com has the highest daily traffic of any network of hyper-local community websites.
• Revenues grew even faster than traffic growth in Q3; local advertisers seeking local customers now dominate, at over 75% of advertising revenues.
• As a whole, the Company's 15,000 town websites are profitable, before corporate overhead. Including all corporate overhead, the Company is expected to reach positive cash flow from viral growth in early 2010.

AmericanTowns.com now includes 2700 local blogs and receives 50,000 announcements and event postings from community leaders each month. The AmericanTowns' sites collectively feature over 100,000 news stories each day, and over 500,000 locally-related tweets.

The new traffic records follow AmericanTowns' launch of its enhanced community platform along with a series of new features:

Expansion of its local Community Calendar to include local Farmers Markets and more arts & entertainment events.

TownTwitter featured for all communities in a Twitter-based section called "Heard on the Street", so people can find out the local buzz.

Photo Gallery added for all communities, both on the homepage, and as a feature available for local groups.

Free blogging tool, which includes free promotion of locally-focused blogs on AmericanTowns homepage, and gives community organizations an easy way to blog.

To accommodate these features, the Company launched a redesign of the home page in August 2009 and is rolling out re-designed interior pages in Q4. The Company will also launch its new Facebook application in Q4, and continues to provide local governments, on request, with a free Community-wide Calendar and a directory of local community organizations, reducing municipal costs.

"Our surveys, focus groups, and site usage confirmed the areas of greatest interest to local residents," explained Ted Buerger, Co-Founder and Chairman of American Towns. "And users have told us that they want local information organized in one place, where they can also add their voice in a pro-community environment," he added.

Content, revenue, or distribution partners wishing to work with AmericanTowns should contact Janice Gallick. Community leaders, bloggers, and publishers should contact Jim Maglione.

About AmericanTowns
AmericanTowns is America's leading Local Platform with national scale, collecting and organizing community information for local residents and empowering them to find and share the best local information for their town. For every town in America, AmericanTowns has created a "community publishing toolkit" that now features the nation's most extensive online resource for community events, community groups, local news/blogs/tweets, local photos/videos, local services and special tools for organizations. Over 80% of homepage content is authored by local sources, with 25% of that content submitted by users directly to AmericanTowns. Dedicated to connecting citizens, community organizations and locally-focused businesses, AmericanTowns featured more than 10 million community events in 2008, and offers powerful tools to help more than 150,000 listed community organizations interact more effectively with local citizens. With more unique visitors than any other network of community websites, AmericanTowns.com is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. Visit http://www.AmericanTowns.com.

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