Introducing the new home on the web for the communities of Riverhead, Long Island
Introducing the new home on the web for the communities of Riverhead, Long Island
A true community web portal, Riverheadlocal.com provides local news and information about Riverhead, for Riverhead, by Riverhead locals.
Riverheadlocal.com is owned by an award-winning husband-and-wife team of local journalists: photographer Peter Blasl and writer-editor Denise Civiletti. Peter was born in Central Suffolk Hospital, graduated from Riverhead High School and has lived in Riverhead his entire life. Denise has lived in Riverhead 25 years. She is an attorney, a former Riverhead town councilwoman and spent the last decade in community journalism — as a columnist, reporter and editor at Times/Review Newspapers (publishers of the News-Review and The Suffolk Times). Their two daughters attend Riverhead High School. Peter and Denise know Riverhead.
Riverheadlocal.com brings together breaking news, sports, a comprehensive community calendar, local blogs, free local classifieds, a community directory and a wealth of information about local government, schools and organizations — all conveniently gathered in one place on the web.
That’s why Riverheadlocal.com is the go-to place for anyone interested in Riverhead. And that’s why, in the short time since its launch, our site has instantly become the most highly trafficked website about Riverhead, for Riverhead. In that short time,Riverheadlocal.com has had more than 10,000 visits from more than 4,500 absolute unique visitors.
What’s more, Riverheadlocal.com visitors are, of course, local folks —your market, yourcustomers, the people you need to reach! According to Google Analytics, 64 percent of our visitors came to our site from locations in Riverhead Town. And the vast majority of the rest of our visitors come from the area immediately around us: the North Fork and other parts of eastern Suffolk County.
Because our site has so much to offer, Riverheadlocal visitors spend time there. Google Analytics metrics show our visitors spend more than six minutes on the site per visit — more than twice the average time on site for similar news and information websites. On average, our visitors view 6 pages per visit.
Reach the people who live and work in or visit the Riverhead area.
They’re online at Riverheadlocal.com. Your business should be there, too.
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