Subic Bay's Leading Tour Operator Seahorse Tours and Souvenirs has become the 437,621 most popular site on the web according to the latest statistics from alexa.com. Alexa an amazon.com company ranks web site world wide using a function of their toolbar. With over 30 million websites being tracked a rating under 500,000 places a site in the top 2% world wide. While examining the behavior of Internet users in the Philippines, Alexa shows that the site is the 2,055 most popular site world wide. Alexa traffic data is based on number of visitors,number of pages viewed and the amount of time on site.
Using the web site http://www.subicbaymarketing.com as it support web page the company maintains over 20 websites. In this list is the http://www.visitsubic.com web site which has an alexa rating of 911,792 at the top 3% world wide.
Company President Charles W. Davis stated that this positioning is the results of a number of different items. First the rise in tourism in the Subic Bay area has resulted in more people looking on-line for detailed information on the area. The increase in awareness of Subic Bay has had more visitors coming and having been very satisfied tell their family and friends who then go on-line searching for more information. We at Seahorse spent a great deal of time developing a complementary set of web sites. First we have Visit Subic www.visitsubic.com this site was developed to provide a source of information for the area and provides a wide overview of the area. There are links to other sites such as our seahorse site but also to other local sites. The seahorse web page highlight the services that we offer to our clients. The Seahorse site http://www.seahorsetours.com was at first slow to build traffic but once we refined our design the search engines started to rate us higher. Our page ranks are at 4 but those are the highest in the area,
We started to getting many request to help design websites for other tourism companies, which lead to developing a section to help small companies who only had a limited budget. We now have designed websites for a number of companies including , tourism associations,hotels and restaurants
