Looking back on www.vaskulitis.org in 2003

by Birgit Wiedenmann-Naujoks, Webmastress

In September 2002 the main-page of this vasculitis-web has been equipped with a counter. Since then every visitor of the site has been counted. The average number of visitors per week in 2002 was 63. Back then the web was still a guest inside the web of the "Bad Bramstedt Rheumaklinik ".

In february of 2003 the vasculitis-web became independent. After registering and setting up the new domain an automatic "refresh"-tag was installed on the old site so that visitors were "detoured" to the new address.

Shortly after setting up the new domain www.vaskulitis.org was reported to 160 different search-engines, national ones as well as international ones. The website has been equipped with the correct "search-terms", invisible to the visitor, of course. We are proud and happy that we are the first hit on google (Germany) when people search for "vaskulitis".

The number of visitors has been constantly growing. 5282 people have been visiting our website in 2003, which is an average of 105 per week. 5% of them have choosen the English version of the web, in which translations of the German texts are put whenever they are ready. We are especially happy to see that our reports are being read in so many foreign countries, even outside Europe:

Austria

France

Luxemburg

Spain

Belgium

Germany

Netherlands

Switzerland

Canada

Greece

Norway

Turkey

Croatia

Hungary

Poland

USA

Czechia

Indonesia

Singapore

Denmark

Italy

Slovakia

Finland

Latvia

Slovenia

Our "Forum" has become quite popular by now. In its beginning it was more a game of "patient asks - doctor answers" but by now some real discussions have developed. We feel deeply obliged to PD Dr. Reinhold-Keller who is answering all the questions from visitors from the expert point of view.

We very much hope to be able to reach vasculitis-patients in 2004 to give them hope and support in dealing with this illness.

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