Ok, so you’ve built a great looking website to showcase your holiday rental, you’ve chosen the best keywords to target and you’ve included them in the relevant areas of your website, so that Google knows what your site is about. Now what? You need to get some links pointing to your website from other high [Continue reading …]
Beautiful new holiday rental website design
We’ve just added a new holiday rental website template to PromoteMyPlace. Take a look for yourself…
Google +1 Widget for PromoteMyPlace Websites
You can now easily add Google +1 buttons to your PromoteMyPlace websites! This is Google’s answer to Facebook ‘like’ buttons. It gives your website visitors the ability to recommend your website to friends and contacts via Google and now they don’t have to leave your website to do it! For more information on Google +1 [Continue reading …]
Preparing Your Holiday Rental Website for Search Engines
Now you have a keyword list, it is time to start putting together the content for your site. By ‘content’ we don’t just mean the actual text visitors will see, but also things like: Page titles; Meta tag data; Images / alt tags. Don’t worry if this looks like a foreign language right now. We [Continue reading …]
Choosing your keywords for your Holiday Rental Website
Why words are the key to your site’s success or failure. Keywords are the words entered in to search engines by people looking to find accommodation like yours. As an example, someone looking for holiday accommodation in Spain that has a pool may enter the search term (that is, the keywords): “Spanish villa with pool”. [Continue reading …]
New widget added to PromoteMyPlace to allow for better Facebook integration
We’ve added a new widget to PromoteMyPlace, which enables you to easily add a Facebook ‘Like’ button at the top of your PromoteMyPlace website. This gives your website visitors the ability to share your holiday accommodation with their friends on Facebook, directly from your website, without having to leave!
Changes to translate widget
Those of you using the translate widget on your PromoteMyPlace website will notice that it now looks a little different. Unfortunately we had to make a few changes, because Google has decided to discontinue the Google Translate API. From Googles website – “Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse, the number of [Continue reading …]
Introduction to SEO for Holiday Rental Owners
What is search engine optimisation (SEO)? Let’s start by saying what SEO is not. It’s not a quick win, silver bullet that you do once and then forget. It’s an on-going process of making your site more attractive to both search engines such as Google and website visitors. Search engine optimisation is a group of [Continue reading …]
We’ve made some improvements
We’ve just released a whole load of great new features on PromoteMyPlace to give you even more functionality and flexibility. You will notice some fundamental changes to the look and feel of the admin area when you login. In order to incorporate some of these changes we had to rearrange things slightly and the menus [Continue reading …]
New holiday rental website template released
We’ve just added a new holiday rental website template to PromoteMyPlace! This is part of our on-going commitment to provide you with the most professional and functional website designs for your holiday rental websites. Under ‘Customise Website Design’ there are two new tabs, ‘Choose Website Theme’ and ‘Customise Website Theme’. Here you can choose your [Continue reading …]