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- Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:16 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Are listing sites dead?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7903
We try as far as we can to track where people originally came from when they reach our site (either to list or to book). With that, we also asked people where they found us and it was very, very rarely that they came up with the correct answer in those situations where we knew how they'd reached us....
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:00 pm
- Forum: Personal websites
- Topic: .com or .co.uk
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3125
More important than .com/.co.uk is where your site is hosted. To give an idea of how significant that is, we originally hosted in the US ('cos it was cheap) but moved to the UK. Within 6 days, we had a 30 fold increase in the hits (our guests are mostly from the UK). This happens as google give high...
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:53 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Are listing sites dead?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7903
Zoot: I was very dismayed when I did my annual thinning out of the freebie site listings (www.ourinns.org/freesites.htm): 21 bit the dust in the last 18 months or so. Part of the problem is that a fair number of the freebie sites don't have an adequate funding mechanism in place to pay for hosting a...
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:36 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: How do REAL guests search on Listing sites ?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4712
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 6:22 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: LONG TIME...NO QUERIES - FREAKING OUT!!!!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2008
Be very wary of dropping listings sites. Sometimes it's far from easy to track down just where your bookings come from. As an example, some years back someone here was going to drop visitfrance.co.uk as they seemed to be getting no bookings from them. Instead, they dropped the site link (saving £30 ...
- Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:49 pm
- Forum: Website reviews
- Topic: thoughts on our revamp
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5621
- Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:05 pm
- Forum: Personal websites
- Topic: Share your blogs
- Replies: 130
- Views: 114146
In terms of blog promotion I've been experimenting with tweeting the posts on Twitter.com lately. Seems to pick up a fair bit of traffic for next to no effort though it varies a lot... so far it seems to have been most successful with some posts on www.ourinns.org/news although it was pretty good on...
- Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:21 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Email scammer
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9492
- Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:29 am
- Forum: Personal websites
- Topic: Hosting location
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2818
It depends on where your primary customer base is and where your hosting is. Due to the greater promotion of US based hosting services many people with UK customer bases are actually hosting in America and thereby losing a lot of customers. For example, in my own case, when I moved from US based hos...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:34 am
- Forum: Personal websites
- Topic: Hosting location
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2818
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:02 pm
- Forum: Personal websites
- Topic: Hosting location
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2818
Brooke, I was thinking about your .co.uk some more. I have way too many domains which means that now and again, I have a domain on a 301 when I've registed it before I'm ready to use it. As far as I know, the domain containing the 301 redirect has never received any PR which implied that it's ignore...
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:45 pm
- Forum: Personal websites
- Topic: Hosting location
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2818
Don't forget that you'd need to promote the .co.uk domain too. If you've just let it sit there, then it won't do too well on the search rankings. I think I said before ages (like 2 years back!) that you shouldn't have the profile of guests that you actually have. It implies that you're losing a of p...
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:42 pm
- Forum: Personal websites
- Topic: Hosting location
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2818
Good question on the 301. My understanding is that with a 301, google etc. consider that the original site doesn't exist in effect. One way to test that would be to take the 301 off for a few minutes, and look at the pagerank. If it's zero then google presumably aren't counting it. For your .co.uk, ...
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:26 pm
- Forum: Personal websites
- Topic: Advertising using ONLY your personal Website
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12297
I'd be waring of dropping listings at the moment Helen. Courtesy of the listings sites, I've heard from a number of people that there seems to have been an across the board reduction in booking enquiries over the last few months. I've certainly noticed that in terms of reduced traffic on the ourinns...
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:20 pm
- Forum: Personal websites
- Topic: new holiday home owner - new website
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2815