What’s Your Website Niche?

August 16th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Vacation Rental Website Design No Comments »

The answer to this is important because it just might make you unique.
If you’re thinking of looking into long tail searches (eg vacation rentals) for your site, where do you go to find them? These are the odd combinations of keywords that Googlers look for such as “vacation rental with extra barbeque”. They give you [...]

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The Long Tail of Your Vacation Rental

August 12th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Vacation Rental Website Design 1 Comment »

Do you own a vacation rental? Promoting it on the web can be a challenge (speaking from experience) because there is often so much competition out there. One way to try and make yourself different is to look at the long tail of searches for your type of vacation rental.
Have you heard of the long [...]

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How To Beat the Contact Page Hurdle

July 31st, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Vacation Rental Website Design Comments Off

Getting customers successfully through your website can sometimes feel like navigating a series of hurdles. It starts with getting them through the home page (or wherever they enter your site) and ends with getting them successfully through your contact page. Unfortunately this final hurdle can be the most dangerous part of the race!
Your contact page [...]

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The Perfect Vacation Rental Website

May 13th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Vacation Rental Website Design 4 Comments »

How do you work out what to do with your vacation rental website?
Whether it’s Florida, Italy, Las Vegas or Kauai, one way to think about this is to imagine what you would want from a site if you were searching for somewhere to stay. I would look for:

Great pictures
Guest testimonials
Availability information
Information about the location
An easy [...]

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Throw Out Your Guestbook

May 9th, 2008 dr.richard Posted in Vacation Rental Website Design 3 Comments »

Are you feeling brave? How about upgrading your customer guestbook with a blog?
If you have a business with a guestbook (vacation rental, restaurant, tourist attraction) then this can be a great source for customer feedback. Other customers will read the guestbook and hopefully see all the positive comments from your satisfied previous customers.
If your guestbook [...]

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