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This year I’ve spent a lot of time builing up the events network websites, especially for Christmas. The main site, Christmas-Events-Near-Me.com is probably 10x better than last year, if not more. I changed frameworks twice and found a lot of very affordable solutions for creating a map-based directory.

While Bing and Yahoo are loving it this year and traffic has increased 1000%+ from them, the big og, Google, for some reason has choped it off at the knees. It is down 97% on the traffic it got last year. I’ve been trying all kinds of methods to pull it out ot the gutter, but still it is not above the amount of traffic it got in August – when it was outdated and nto anywhere near the holidays. It’s been frustrating, to say the least.

I have learned a LOT about coding with AI, and a lot of tools including Cursor, Google Cloud (many parts), and countless other APIs that I use to make the sites great. Plus lots of marketing tools. There’s really been constant learning this year. I probably average at least 80 hour work weeks.

This post is my attempt to add to my backlinks. I’d love a share or backlink from you if you can help out!

Main site:
👉 Christmas Events Near Me – This site has over 20k events in over 8000 cities. And an amazing Christmas map that I recommend you check out. Thanks for your support.

Here’s some other city-specific Christmas sites I’ve made:

Each site lists local Christmas lights, markets, parades, and festivals for its metro area.

These are in addition to my long-time sites, austinchristmasguide.com and portlandchristmasguide.com