3 Nov 2009 - It's been five months since we launched Gimme.co.nz - and we've learnt a lot in that time.

We've discovered New Zealanders love their competitions and giveaways, with traffic to the site increasing at least 50% per month, every month since launch.

Based on feedback from our active community of compers and a hard look at how people are using the website, we have also discovered a few areas where we think we can improve.

Last night we rolled out a number of changes to Gimme to make it easier to sift through our huge database of competitions and giveaways and quickly surface the promotions that you're most interested in.

Our main focus has been on improving our search engine.  We think our new engine is a big improvement and we'd love to hear what you think (contact form).

The main changes are:

- All listing category information is now searchable.  So, for example, if you're looking for a promotion run by a particular company (ie: TVNZ), or in a particular location (ie: Wellington), or with a particular type of prize (CDs) - the Gimme search engine can now take you straight to what you're looking for.

- A regular piece of feedback from the thousands of people that subscribe to our daily newsletter has been that it would be useful if the listings specified in the newsletter included information on who is running each promotion.  Now it does.

- Listings can now include hyperlinks to relevant information.

- Links to more information, or how to enter particular promotions are now much bigger and bolder.

Hope you enjoy the changes and if there's other things you'd like us to work on, please let us know.

Team Gimme.