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Web Surf is up for the Big Island Blog Network
Aug 23rd
You may recall in my Drive Traffic To Your Site article that we spoke about link exchanges and how web search engines use link to your site as a way to determine its popularity. Well the Big Island Blog Network of Hawaii has taken this practice one step further.
They identify themselves as a “community of business owners and writers working together to promote their Big Island business with an intention of creating value and doing good.†This community is setup to maximize the SEO effects through linking member sites together, what they couldn’t do alone they are able to do as a community. They include some really cool features:
- Complete content management system
- Audio Podcasting
- Video uploads and video blogging
- Search Engine Optimization
- Flickr photo integration
- Google Maps integration
- Visitors can upload files
If only they helped their users with a sales solution they would be the complete package!
You should check it out, they are doing some new and interesting things for the blogging and tourism community.
Drive Traffic To Your Site
Aug 7th
Get the traffic flow to your site.
So you have a new Tourism Web site, a great product, and the ability to sell your product online. What, the sales aren’t coming in? Well, how much site traffic are you receiving?
This blog will give you some cheap ways to increase your site traffic.
The most important step is to submit your site to the search engines. Websubmit Pro, has a free service to submit your site to a multitude of search engines. Don’t forget the big guy, submit your site with Google, it may take some time for your site to be indexed, but it is well worth the wait.
The way that most search engines rank your sites can be summarized by page rankings; that is how many popular sites link to your website. Check out this article for more clarification from Google.
What does that mean for you? Well you want to set up strategic partnerships with your associates to have a link exchange, this will add visibility to both of the non-competing webpages.
Another great way to gain visibility to your website is to submit it to industry listing websites. For tourism companies, check out this site for a free listing.
Have you found some other great ways to gain traffic for your website?