Online Traffic Peaks for Olympic Sponsor of Gold Winning Curling Team

Online, March 3, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Toronto, March 3 2010... Goldline.ca, was a proud sponsor of Team Kevin Martin, the Canadian Olympic Curling Team that won the gold medal in the recently concluded Vancouver 2010 winter games. The company sells curling equipment online, so winter is their prime season for sales and their website traffic is typically at its highest in winter months. This year, WSI Halton, the Internet marketing consulting partner for Goldine.ca further refined the company's ongoing search engine optimization strategy that increased Goldline's non-paid, organic search engine traffic by a phenomenal 105% in the first 2 weeks of February compared to last year.
Goldline's site was averaging between 500 and 800 visitors per day to their website for the first 15 days of February. The online traffic spiked even more once the Olympic Curling event began in the Vancouver 2010 games, and the company's website saw a further 363% increase in their non-paid, organic search engine traffic! When Team Martin won the gold medal against Norway Goldline's site traffic hit an all time high of 2270 visitors on a single day! Overall, the site had over 30,000, visitors to their website compared to 7442 in February 2009. More than half of those visitors came from the skilled and strategically delivered search engine optimization efforts of the WSI Halton team.
Jason Gervais, co-owner and founder of WSI Halton, says, "The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games were an exciting time. For us at WSI Halton, it was a golden opportunity to kick up our clients' Internet marketing results several notches. We knew that Team Martin supported by our client Goldline.ca was definitely a winning combination that would bring home the gold for Canada in curling. We rallied our team here so we could do our very best and help Goldline's online traffic numbers touch pure gold! It all came together beautifully and we are all celebrating, for more than one reason. The lustre of gold has spread and shines bright!"

"There are thousands of companies out there who offer Guaranteed SEO and Top Search Engine Placement. The problem is that 90% of them are just blowing smoke. For real SEO Results, you need to do your homework and hire a professional company that can get you the results you're paying for. What WSI Halton has delivered for Goldline.ca is but one example of the fascinating results that skilled SEO professionals can bring to businesses," comments Gervais.