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Who created Global Dialysis?

Global Dialysis was originally launched by Valda and Russell England in January 2000. Val was a haemodialysis patient for 25 years. Russ was an independent IT consultant specialising in the development and design of database applications for large corporate enterprises and government departments.

Why was Global Dialysis created?

It was born out of the frustrations of trying to find dialysis centres for travelling. Global Dialysis is primarily a resource for patients who want to travel, this includes travel stories that have been a great inspiration for dialysis patients. The directory pages of dialysis centres are our most popular pages. Our database has now grown to 11,800 centres in 128 countries making it the LARGEST database of dialysis centres available in the world.

What is the direction for the Global Dialysis now?

Global Dialysis is now under new management, we have lots of ideas for improvements. Global Dialysis has become one of the most popular dialysis related websites on the internet (see table below) without any advertising by the owners. Since it's launch 6 years ago, the cost of maintaining the website has been met by the owners. We are now actively looking for advertisers and sponsors. This will help us to make major improvements to the website and as always, provide a free resource for dialysis patients.

Who visits Global Dialysis?

The majority are dialysis patients but we also have many enquiries from dialysis professionals, researchers and travel companies. Around 10% of visitors go directly to our jobs page.

According to the US Renal Data System, the average age group for dialysis patients is 45-64. The Male:Female ratio is 7:5.

How many visitors to Global Dialysis?

Figures correct as at May 2006. These are historical figures, they will increase as we are now actively promoting our website.

In the US, approximately 1 in a 1000 people are on dialysis. In Europe there are approximately 1 in 2000 people. (dialysis statistics)

Monthly Visitors Trend

Where are the visitors from?

#		Continent	Percent of Visits August 2005
1.		North America	52.11%
2.		Europe	33.31%
3.		Asia	9.75%
4.		Oceania	2.29%
5.		Africa	1.81%
6.		South America	0.74%

During April 2006, we had visitors from 139 countries:

How popular are we on the search engines?

According to the research firm Nielsen/NetRatings, Google's share of the global search market in February 2006 was 48.5%, more than double the 22.5% share its nearest rival Yahoo.

As at 29 April 2006, these are the positions for keywords on Google and Yahoo.

How many websites link to Global Dialysis?

• 6,900 according to Yahoo (2 May 2006)

Testimonials

• When the people at Global Dialysis asked me if I would consider providing them with a testimonial, I was honored. Advertising with them has been one of the best decisions we have made in our three years of operations. Aside from the huge traffic Global Dialysis appreciates ( go ahead and check for yourself ) and the incredible number of qualified responses we have received from them, they are a great bunch of folks to work with!  But would you expect anything less from an organization who's main priority is to be a true benefit to those people who need it most? The people  on  Dialysis and the people that provide the care for them. Just like their name implies, their success story's span the globe.  If you are considering Global Dialysis as a vehicle for advertising and would like to hear more , please don't hesitate to give me a call
  
  Sincerely, William Broder, President, AMS Renal Division, US
   
• I wanted to thank you and Global Dialysis for the great service we received in placing our ad on your site.  In the short time our ad has run we have experience a near 200% increase in traffic to our website.In addition we received a booking for 2007 within the first week.
  
  Tim Deloughery, Marketing Manager, Tapion Dialysis Centre, St Lucia
   
• Just a short note to let you know what a pleasure it was doing business with you recently. Your professionalism and courteous approach is much appreciated. We look forward to dealing with you more in the future and in the meantime, Global Dialysis continues to provide a steady stream of referrals to our website. Keep up the good work!
  
  Jonathan Zweig, Vice President, Jazz Communications Ltd., Canada

Traffic Ranking

Alexa rankings aren't perfect, but they can offer a very good indication of how popular a website is. The rankings are calculated by how many times websites are visited by users with their Alexa explorer toolbar installed, around 10 million users. Our highest ranking on Alexa has been 39,295. Based on 18 million websites trawled by Alexa, we are in the top 0.23% visited sites of ALL websites on the internet, not just dialysis websites. Pretty good considering we had never advertised. The Alexa website has a tool to compare traffic rankings/page views/reach between websites, useful if you are considering online advertising. Incidentally, Alexa are owned by Amazon. For more information about Alexa see: What are Alexa Rankings? 

Interested in Advertising?

Our advertising rates are very competitive and start from as little as £40 per month. (approx $73/€58 - May/06)

Please contact us for further details.