Woodlyn Park www.woodlynpark.co.nz
My partner mentioned in the last post, her name is Kym by the way, anyway Kym and I have stayed in a lot of different accommodations throughout New Zealand, and I thought I would find a few of the websites where we choose to stay, and explain what it was about the site, that made us decide to stay with them.
The first place, is the most recent, Woodlyn Park near Waitomo caves, the site isn't your normal professional type accommodation website, but the site definitely suits the accommodation and the other tourist attractions the that are on the farm that these Motels are on.
We saw somewhere online that their were some Hobit Motels somewhere around Waitomo Caves(these caves have are limestone formations and a glow worm grotto) anyway a search on Google for
hobbit motel Waitomo
and the site was #1 in Google, which was a good start,
so we look at the page, and although the general look of the site was a bit hillbilly, the first picture we see is the hobbit motels...... oh they are so cool.... the rest of what the site looked like was forgotten, scroll down a bit and see a couple of photos of the inside of the motel.... and look, right there is the price, we went in the off season so it was a little less, but here we are, we see the outside, the inside of the motel, we have the price, and a short to the point description. What more could we want.... actually because it was highlighted we did look at the Billy Blacks Kiwi Culture Show which looked like fun, then ended up looking at a lot of the site, but eventually ended up back at the hobbit's page, and the very convenient and clearly marked book now....
Now here we were dubious, this site didn't look like it would have a secure webpage, but YES!!! a secure web page... way to go.... this is unusual on a New Zealand website, so we immediately made a booking, paid by credit card, and were happy campers.
When we headed there for our stay, the place was well signposted, everything was great, can't fault them at all.
The stay there was wonderful by the way, the bed was so comfortable, there was easy wheelchair access, the Billy Blacks Kiwi Culture Show was a ton of laughs, and we had an all round fantastic time.
Way to go Woodlyn Park !!!!! 10/10
Cheers Lynny
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Address of your Accommodation Rental
One thing that many people forget to add to their website is an address to their Hotel, Motel, Lodge, or rental property.
I can understand if your are renting out a small cabin in the backwoods, that only get's rented in the Summer, and you are concerned about vandalism or security.
However no address, to a hotel where you live in, and hopefully has people staying every night.
When people are browsing your website, they really do want to know where your accommodations are situated, even if they don't know they town or place at all, they will often want to know.
On the page you have your contact information, it's a very good idea, to make a list of places that are nearby, this is great for the SEO of your website, and often will help someone find your place as the one to stay at.
Have you contact details at the top of the page, easy for everyone to see, and write out your full country address, including postal code. Then underneath write a neat list of places around your accommodation.
You may wonder how this will help with SEO. I'll make up the details, but you will get the idea.
Well imagine you motel is 5 miles from a Hospital called, St Mary's Hospital, Timbuktu. And you have that listed on your contact page.
I have an Aunty Mary who is in St Mary's Hospital, and I need to visit her, so I do a search, I try
accommodation near St Mary's Hospital, Timbuktu.
no results, so I try a search
Motel near St Mary's Hospital, Timbuktu
And what do you know, your motel website is the only one that says it's near that hospital, in that place, so guess whose website will rank #1 for my search...... see you in a couple of days.....
This is getting away from putting your address for you rental accommodation on your website, but you can see other ways having your actual address would be useful....
eg. I am making a google map of all the places that are listed on the Rainbow Tourism directory website.
Well at least the ones in New Zealand today, I haven't quite finished, but I'm going to try adding that map to this post. I hope you can see it, I plan to make one of these maps for each place in the world.
And see if your address was listed on your website, and I could make a link exactly your business, then whenever anyone was searching in google maps for anything near where you are, in your part of the world, they would see your motel listed.
Cheers Lynn
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I can understand if your are renting out a small cabin in the backwoods, that only get's rented in the Summer, and you are concerned about vandalism or security.
However no address, to a hotel where you live in, and hopefully has people staying every night.
When people are browsing your website, they really do want to know where your accommodations are situated, even if they don't know they town or place at all, they will often want to know.
On the page you have your contact information, it's a very good idea, to make a list of places that are nearby, this is great for the SEO of your website, and often will help someone find your place as the one to stay at.
Have you contact details at the top of the page, easy for everyone to see, and write out your full country address, including postal code. Then underneath write a neat list of places around your accommodation.
You may wonder how this will help with SEO. I'll make up the details, but you will get the idea.
Well imagine you motel is 5 miles from a Hospital called, St Mary's Hospital, Timbuktu. And you have that listed on your contact page.
I have an Aunty Mary who is in St Mary's Hospital, and I need to visit her, so I do a search, I try
accommodation near St Mary's Hospital, Timbuktu.
no results, so I try a search
Motel near St Mary's Hospital, Timbuktu
And what do you know, your motel website is the only one that says it's near that hospital, in that place, so guess whose website will rank #1 for my search...... see you in a couple of days.....
This is getting away from putting your address for you rental accommodation on your website, but you can see other ways having your actual address would be useful....
eg. I am making a google map of all the places that are listed on the Rainbow Tourism directory website.
Well at least the ones in New Zealand today, I haven't quite finished, but I'm going to try adding that map to this post. I hope you can see it, I plan to make one of these maps for each place in the world.
And see if your address was listed on your website, and I could make a link exactly your business, then whenever anyone was searching in google maps for anything near where you are, in your part of the world, they would see your motel listed.
Cheers Lynn
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Saturday, October 6, 2007
SEO KnowAll Lynny from Canz Design.
My name is Lynny, I’ve been employed by DownUnder Mark recently, to among other things, manage the new Rainbow Tourism website, that my business Canz Design Ltd, is building for him.
I’m taking care of entering new properties into both the directory site, and the booking system, that everyone listed on his site is invited to try out free.
I will also manage the whole back end of the website, leaving Mark free to market the Accommodation/Tourism directory site.
Once the new site is up and running, in about a week from now, I will also be doing the SEO of his sites.
I specialise in SEO (search engine optimisation) which very basically means making specific changes to a website, to make that website, rank well in search engines like Google, for keyphrases or search strings that are the sort of things people looking for your business would search for.
I will talk about SEO extensively in my posts, since it is of little use having a website, advertising your motel or B and B, if that website cannot be found, by someone looking for a place to stay, in your area.
Combining these two jobs is extremely interesting, since over the past month, I have visited just over 200 accommodation websites. I have seen some very nice looking websites, that when I did a search in Google, for the name of the business, which is a very specific search, that website did not appear in the first 2 pages of the search results.
I have definitely seen the good, the bad and the ugly accommodation websites, and will discuss with you some of the issues faced by the owners of the sites.
I’ll take a look at several ways of advertising an accommodation business, and show you how SEO can fit into your marketing budget.
Lynny
I’m taking care of entering new properties into both the directory site, and the booking system, that everyone listed on his site is invited to try out free.
I will also manage the whole back end of the website, leaving Mark free to market the Accommodation/Tourism directory site.
Once the new site is up and running, in about a week from now, I will also be doing the SEO of his sites.
I specialise in SEO (search engine optimisation) which very basically means making specific changes to a website, to make that website, rank well in search engines like Google, for keyphrases or search strings that are the sort of things people looking for your business would search for.
I will talk about SEO extensively in my posts, since it is of little use having a website, advertising your motel or B and B, if that website cannot be found, by someone looking for a place to stay, in your area.
Combining these two jobs is extremely interesting, since over the past month, I have visited just over 200 accommodation websites. I have seen some very nice looking websites, that when I did a search in Google, for the name of the business, which is a very specific search, that website did not appear in the first 2 pages of the search results.
I have definitely seen the good, the bad and the ugly accommodation websites, and will discuss with you some of the issues faced by the owners of the sites.
I’ll take a look at several ways of advertising an accommodation business, and show you how SEO can fit into your marketing budget.
Lynny
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