If you're searching for an Abruzzo villa, you'll quickly find the Villasfor2 website – the starting point for a great Italian holiday. But it wasn't always like that…

We reached something of a milestone on September 1, when our website registered its 6,000th visitor.

That piece of news isn't going to cause mass panic in the corridors at Google, MSN and Yahoo, where they get that number of hits every nano-second, but it's highly significant for a little fish in a big pond like villasfor2.com

For a while after we started, it would've been easier and probably cheaper to have gone round knocking on people's doors and asking if they'd like us to read bits of our website to them.

On a few of those early days, the site attracted the dreaded 'zero hits'- which is a bit depressing when you think that of the 6.7 billion people in the world, not one felt like getting info about an Abruzzo villa holiday. Or if they did, it wasn't from us.

There wasn't a single turning point.The numbers just started edging-up. And as more people found the site, the more they started browsing through it to the point where we've registered well over 22,000 page hits in our short existence from people in 85 different countries around the world.

Of those countries, three account for the lion's share of visitors to the site. 30% from the UK; 24% from the USA; and 19% from Italy. And sure enough, people who've booked Abruzzo villa holidays with us so far have come from the UK, the USA and Italy !

Number 4 in the visitors hit parade is Canada – and our first Canadian visitors arrive in early October; number 5 is Australia – but so far it hasn't been a case of 'Advance Australia Fair'. More like 'Just looking thanks..'

And what's the most popular page on the villasfor2 site ? The 'David's Abruzzoblog' section you're reading now – but that's been around longest. Otherwise – pretty much as you'd expect. If you're searching the web for an Abruzzo villa, your first contact with us will be the first page of our website. Then you'll want to know what your Abruzzo villa's actually like; and about prices, booking and availability. 

After that, your own individual preferences kick-in – Where to go ? What to see ? Where to eat ? What to eat ? (And drink !); and the weather (of course !) The site provides most of the answers.

And if it doesn't – hit the tab that says 'Contact Us' and ask !

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