Using Travel Forums for Online Travel Marketing
Using Travel Forums for Online Travel Marketing Have you followed along the last few days as I wrote about blogging for links? For those of you that missed this lesson, find the links at the end of this post. For those of you following along faithfully, today’s lesson is short, because you know the concepts, [...]
How to Find Travel DOFOLLOW Blogs
Where in the heck can you find good blogs to comment on that will give you a back link to your site that Google will love? That’s a question I get often, and I have started a list for you. The following are a search engines for dofollow blogs. Use the search function to [...]
How to Get More Traffic from Blog Commenting
Is there value in commenting on travel blogs to increase your websites ranking in the search engines? Absolutely. Let’s discuss this a little further by helping you find blogs that will follow your links, a refresher on why this is important, and how to write a good blog comment. As we have mentioned often in [...]
Blog Commenting to Enhance SEO for Tourism Marketing
Have you ever thought about commenting on a blog? Many people think of it, few people do it. You and your website SEO do not know what you are missing. Blog commenting is an easy way to gain credible inbounds links for your website. We have spoken a lot about back links here; if [...]
Website Reviews for Small Tourism Businesses
Looking for feedback about the design and usability of your tourism website? Wonder if you have missed SEO opportunities? Are you getting the right information in front of your readers? Website reviews are mandatory for any small travel business and should be looked at after every redesign and on an ongoing basis. Once a [...]
Travel Website Development – Do it Yourself Options
Want more options when it comes to designing a website for your travel and tour business? Do you want another option to save money in the design process? Do you struggle in deciding what your site should look like and need visual examples to work with? Here are some options: Using WebSite Templates You should [...]
Where to find Good Travel Website Designers
The last few days we talked about how to interview a web designer that specializes in travel sites and you have some good advice for hiring the right designer. Now let’s talk about where to find one. There are many online services that offer data banks for all types of computer pros. These pros [...]
Travel Website Designers – The Questions They Should Ask You
The website designer that specialises in travel sites is trying to convince you to use their services. You have asked all the questions mentioned in this article, How to Choose a Travel Website Designer, now it is time to listen. What questions are they asking you? This is where you really can determine which [...]
Travel Website Design and Web Designers
How to choose the best travel web site designer to create and help market your online tourism website. Website designers are not hard to find or hire, what is hard is finding the combination of technical ability, artistic rendering, complete with a heaping spoonful of SEO on top. You need someone to design a [...]
Promote Your Travel Website on Tourism Boards
It’s another tourism linking opportunity for your website today! Travel link directories are great ways to improve your search engine visibility and today we will look at the linking opportunities provided by your local tourism board. For those of you new to my travel marketing blog, you may want to catch up by reading [...]
Write Content to Bring Google to your Website
One of the best Travel SEO Tips is to create fresh, new website articles for your online tourism business on a regular basis. You do not need to blog daily, but adding fresh, relevant pages (on a regular basis) to your website, providing great information to potential visitors, and will enhance Google’s perception of you as [...]
High Page Rank BackLink Strategy for your Travel SEO
Having a link to your travel website from high Page Rank site is valuable for increasing your Search Engine Rankings. As mentioned before, a high page rank webpage that creates a link to you adds credibility to your site in the eyes of the search engines. If you are new here, read these articles [...]
Getting Links to your Website that Google Loves
Not all back links are created equal. Some search engines will follow any of your links, from any pages and regard each of these links as a “vote” for your site. Google will not. Google is selective about the links it follows. This article will help you understand the biggest difference in link types and [...]
Use Keywords in Visible Text for Higher Rankings
Over the past few weeks we spent a lot of time learning how to find and use keywords and key phrases. We talked about title tags, meta descriptions and how to implement all of them. One of the last important places to use your keywords/phrases is within your visible text. Visible text is the text [...]
Is the ALT Tag Text Used for SEO?
ALT text is a description for your images on your website. It is shown to users in place of your image for those users who browse the web with their images turned of. The ALT attribute is as used by screen readers for the visually impaired. In some browsers, when you hover your mouse [...]
You Need a Privacy Policy
A Privacy Policy is another must have page for your website. It may not have a direct effect on your SEO and rankings, but NOT having a privacy policy could be detrimental. What is a Privacy Policy? A privacy policy is a public notice stating what personal information you collect from your visitors, and [...]
Directory Linking–A Free Travel Directory
Today is another directory submission day! For those of you new here, and for those not familiar with Directory Submissions, you must read these 2 articles to make the best of this post. Guidelines for Submitting Your Website to Directories and Directory Linking for the Best SEO Opportunities I have found a nice directory that [...]
Page Rank Explained
Did you know that Google assigns a ranking to each page on the web? They use this rank to determine how “important” a page is, with a value of 0 – 10. Today is all about finding out how this affects your website and how you can use it to your SEO advantage and in [...]
5 More Really Bad Website Design Ideas
These are 5 More Really Bad Website Design Ideas that follows up on one of my more popular posts, 5 Really Bad Website Design Ideas. Again, these are in no specific order – they are just bad. Please don’t do them. 1) Mystery Navigation – this is the site that does not use any words [...]
It`s Google Day! How to submit your site for inclusion in Google
It`s Google Day! How to submit your site for inclusion in Google. Its Friday, and we all have heard me yak too much a about backlinks, SEO, Online Marketing, Keywords, Descriptions et al. I am giving us both a break today. This is a 30 second read and a 30 second task. Lets get [...]
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