About Alaska Mining & Diving Supply Website

This site is a work in progress and new features are being added constantly. If you have any feedback on it's development, or would like to report a problem, then please email me (Steve Herschbach) at webmaster@akmining.com

Steve Herschbach

This website was started in November 1998. Like many established businesses, we wanted to put up a website, both to offer online product information, and to help facilitate the ordering process. This is especially important for customers who live in remote parts of Alaska. Our unique product mix has also gathered interest outside Alaska.

I started the site as an after-hours project, but it's success has been such that management of the website has become one of my primary job functions. Any good website is constantly evolving, and such is the case with ours. I'm constantly working on new additions and updates. I'm proud of the fact that the website is totally maintained in-house, and has paid for itself every step of the way.

2007 Update - The site has languished while my attentions were elsewhere, and so is in need of a complete overhaul. Work is in progress to significantly add to the website and to revamp existing pages. See our new online store at http://www.akmining.com/store.htm

The website averaged 5,474 visitors per day in January 2006, with a total of 175,170 visitors. This was not hits or page views, but actual visitors.

**akmining.com Summary January 2006**
Hits
Total Hits	1,920,562
Average Hits per Day	60,017
Average Hits per Visitor	10.96
Page Views
Total Page Views	287,963
Average Page Views per Day	8,998
Average Page Views per Visitor	1.64
Visitors
Total Visitors	175,170
Average Visitors per Day	5,474

Most Popular Pages January 2006

Alaska Webcams - Current conditions around Alaska.
Alaska Mining & Diving Supply - Our Home page!
Used Snowmobiles - Pre-owned and demo sleds for sale at AMDS.
Snowmobiling - Ski-Doo snowmobiles, Used Snowmobiles, Karavan trailers, and accessories.
Non-Current Ski-Doo Snowmobiles - Brand new 2002 Ski-Doo models.
Ski-Doo 2006 Snowmobiles - The latest information at AMDS.
Online Store- Items available for online purchase.
Lowe - Lowe aluminum jon boats, Roughneck welded jon boats, and Sea Nymph V-Hulls.
What's New For 2006 Ski-Doo! - Exciting new products for 2006.
Ski-Doo Model Reference - How to find the year of a Ski-Doo using the model number.
Boating - New and used boats and outboards.
Mining - Keene gold dredges, sluice boxes, and gold pans, plus rock tumblers and other items.
Used ATVs - Pre-owned ATVs available at Alaska Mining & Diving Supply.
ATVs - AlphaSports and Bombardier all-terrain vehicles (four-wheelers), and Used ATVs.
Used Boats - Used aluminum, fiberglass, and inflatable boats. Inboard and outboard models.
Alaska's Largest Gold Nuggets - A listing of the largest gold nuggets found in Alaska.
Used Outboards - Used two-stroke and four-stroke outboard motors.
Used Mining Equipment - Used mining gear and metal detectors.
Metal Detecting - Metal detecting equipment and accessories.
Honda Marine - Honda 4-stroke outboard motors.

The website is hosted by Pair Networks. I use Microsoft FrontPage to build the website. Graphics are optimized with IrfanView32 and WebGraphics Optimizer. The shopping cart system is by Americart. The shopping pages are generated directly from our inventory using GDIdb Pro. Updates to the search engines are done via Submit Express. Our site search engine is powered by Picosearch.com. Site statistic analysis is with Webalizer, 123LogAnalyzer, and WebLog Expert Lite.

Thank you for visiting our website! ~ Steve Herschbach

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