advanced seo for vacation rentals
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Advanced SEO presentation given to Vacation Rental Managers Association at the VRMA National Conference 2011 in Orlando Florida.Topics include:-Vacation Rental Industry Benchmark Data, Website Size, Duplicate Content, Website Speed, Google Analytics, Linking factors Online Reviews, Schema coding, Social Indicators, Brand Factors, User Signals, Google Adwords, and Google +-WebsTRANSCRIPT
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Blizzard UniversityAdvanced SEO
By Trent Blizzard, PresidentBlizzard Internet Marketing, Incwww.blizzardinternet.com
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How Important is SEO?Using BlizzardTracker.com – 129 Vacation Rental Websites
Organic Search drives 43% of Website Traffic.
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Size MattersThe average website has 405 pages that received inbound organic search traffic
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Large Websites Outperform
The average website received 2 (or more) visitors from 776 unique keyword phrases.
Single visitor keyword phrases 2,162Average # of keyword phrases per page: 10Average # of visits per page from search: 30
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Duplicate ContentThe top SEO issue in the Vacation Rental Industry
Sharing your property descriptions with Distribution and Channel partners undermines your website.
The solution in NOT to stop sharing
The solution is to write original descriptions for your website
Tools to check your photos and images:
BlizzardLINK.com/25 BlizzardLINK.com/26
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Website Speed is a new component of algorithm and impacts your conversion rates too
Extremely slow loading websites are penalized
Google Website Speed Tool: BlizzardLINK.com/1
Google Analytics tracks your website speed. Add this snippet to track: _trackPageLoadTime(); Site Speed Overview from Google:
BlizzardLINK.com/6
Website Speed
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Understand “Keyword Theme” is available in: Anchor text Theme of linking page Theme of linking website – “Hubs” or “Authority Sites” Internal links
Understand Quality and Trust: Domain level PageRank of website linking to you Page level PageRank of webpage linking to you
Understand Diversity: Diversity of websites Diversity of C-blocks
Link Components of Algorithm
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SEOmoz research on Google’s algorithm and the role of links: BlizzardLINK.com/7
Search in Google “link:www.yourcompetitordomain.com” Open Site Explorer: BlizzardLINK.com/a Yahoo Site Explorer: BlizzardLINK.com/8 Majestic SEO: BlizzardLINK.com/9 Google Webmaster Tools (for your website) BlizzardLINK.com/b 10 Good Links for VRMs Blizzard Recommends:
BlizzardLINK.com/23
Link Resources
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Are You Tracking Online Reservations using the E-Commerce Feature?
New Features:
Multi Channel Referrer Google Webmaster Tools Shows Query Data New “Who’s On Now” Report
Google Analytics
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5/6/2009
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5/6/2009
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The world of Online Reviews is changing.
Google (Yahoo and Bing) leading the charge
Don’t Just use just Flipkey and TripAdvisor
Use Google Places. EyeTracking Example: BlizzardLINK.com/24 Google Places Tips:
Achieve 100% score Get more reviews
Develop plan to put original and non-duplicate reviews into your website Code them so they can be read by Search Engines
Reviews
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Schema is a new way to code your html that was created collaboratively by Google, Bing and Yahoo.
Use it especially for: Your contact info (name, address, phone, email, etc) Your Reviews
Learn more at BlizzardLINK.com/n
2012: Schema
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Growing Evidence that Social Indicators can impact your rankings
Research at: BlizzardLINK.com/7
Consider creating strategies to increase: # of Facebook Shares # of Facebook Likes and Comments # of +1s
2012: Social Indicators
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Google Plus Does NOT have a business outlet yet
Equivalent of “Like” but at web-page level Affects search results of you and your circle
What you should do:
Enable +1 sharing in your website Start a personal account to get comfortable
with it See if “Hangout” offers you anything Wait for the inevitable business components
to be rolled out.
2012: Google Plus
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Start Here: tips for newbies: http://www.blizzardlink.com/2
How to add a +1 button to your website: http://www.blizzardlink.com/3
Google Plus impacting search: http://www.blizzardlink.com/4
Sample of upcoming Google+ Business page: http://www.blizzardlink.com/5
2012: Google Plus Resources
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The concept of Brand is important to Google. Potential Brand Quality indicators:
Presence of Brand social indicators in Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+
Google Places Reviews Press Releases Videos # of Brand searches by consumers “Halo” effect of distribution Domain Registration information Security Certificates Consistency of phone numbers and addresses
2012: Brand Factors
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Google can measure how happy are users are with your website:
Your Click-Thru-Rate in Search Results. Your Bounce Rate, Average Time on Site and #
pages viewed Usage of video
Some Indicators you control: How fast your website loads Broken Links Misspelled Words / Poor Grammar Hard to read text
2012: Users Signal