Monday, 27 October 2008 11:44 by
Admin
There are over 787 lodging/travel-oriented web sites in the Inn Strategy database today.
We have been working on automating the scripts used to evaluate the advertising opportunity available for each of these sites.
One of our criteria is whether the advertiser's profile page is indexed in Google, Yahoo and MSN.
While
we can't check 1000 different cities for each travel site, we select
one location in each site as being representative of what typically
occurs in the local geographic drill down that travelers are likely to
do. Having your listing page indexed in the search engines is obviously
better than just the home page being indexed for a particular travel
site.
As an Innkeeper and search engine marketer, one of the
latest revelations from spending all this time looking at sites, is
that there are auxiliary searches besides strictly looking for lodging
that is a good way to capture prospective guests for your property.
Wedding and Honeymoon sites is one example of this area where we will be adding lots of sites.
Depending on your location, activity-based sites can be a great way to connect: hunting, fishing, skiing, surfing, etc.