Thank You, Cartersville Patch Readers, For Visiting Us

CARTERSVILLE, GA — Thank you, Cartersville Patch readers, for taking time in your busy days to spend a few moments with Patch. We appreciate your visits and contributions, and we want you to know we take nothing for granted here. Thank you for helping us to grow and thrive this year.

More than seven years ago, on Jan. 14, 2011, Cartersville Patch launched. We've come a long way, and you're a big reason why.

In August, Cartersville Patch recorded 81,497 visitors. For a city of about 21,000 people, that's a lot of readers! Our visitors hail from Cartersville, for sure, but many residents in Bartow County and surrounding areas also land on Cartersville Patch from time to time, too. That figure — compiled and verified through Google Analytics — includes readers on desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile and our app, and our visitors often access Patch on several devices over the month.

Here are some of the most-read articles on Cartersville Patch in August.

• Body Found In Bartow County Landfill: Authorities
• Cartersville Officer Rescues Passengers From Burning Truck
• All Woodland Students Can Eat Lunch: Principal
• Remains Of Freddy Seth Morgan Found In Bartow County
• I-75 Resurfacing Begins In Bartow County
• 2 Plead Guilty In Beating Death Of 74-Year-Old Man
• BCSS Opens New Adairsville Elementary School, Kingston Addition
• Georgia Soldier Killed In U.S. Army Training Exercise
• Anheuser-Busch Sends Water To Support California Wildfire Relief

Got a news tip or a story idea of an interesting development in and around Cartersville? I'm Kristal Dixon, your local editor. Send your tips, ideas and questions my way at cartersville@patch.com.

Our readers also love Cartersville Patch's calendar of events — more than 1,400 visits were made to our calendar in August. If you would like to post on Cartersville Patch, too, you may easily to sign up for a free user profile. As a Patch user, you can post articles, events, jobs, and announcements. And the "rules of Patch" are easy to follow: "no abusive content, no commercial spam, keep it local, and be awesome."

What else is new? So far this year, 853 new email subscribers have joined Cartersville Patch, boosting our email list to 4,239 daily subscribers. (Wait? You don't get our email? Click here and we'll hook you up.) And 934 Cartersville Patch lovers joined our Facebook page this year, too. We have more than 17,500 fans! If you haven't liked our page yet, please give it a try. If you're already on the page, please share with a friend. Reaching 17,600 fans in September would be a huge milestone for us.

If you own a local business and are interested in getting your message on Cartersville Patch or our nearby Patches, please visit the page and tell us what you need. One of our sales reps will be in touch.

Here's another fun fact about Patch: Did you know that Patch is among the 100 most trafficked websites in the United States? Patch ranks 91st on the most viewed websites in the country, according to Alexa. Cartersville Patch is part of a broad network, with dozens of Patch sites in Georgia and more than 1,200 across the United States. That's a lot of local news!

Many news websites are limiting access to free articles, but Patch articles and events by our journalists and our users are always free to view.

We're thrilled you've made Cartersville Patch a part of your life. Thank you so much for your support and readership.

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Photo 1 credit: Hannah Surrett

Photo 2 credit: Greg McCary/city of Cartersville