Get your website on top of search results
July 6th, 2007Once your vacation rental website is up and running, you will want to visit it often, maybe each day, to check on new listings and do basic maintainence. Don’t just click on a shortcut to your rental website. Instead, go to Google (or whatever default SE you use) and then perform a search on keywords that SHOULD bring up your website.
Assume your website is for Tahiti. Here are possible search queries you should do:
Tahiti Vacation Rentals
Tahiti Rental Properties
Tahiti Holiday Home Rentals
Tahiti Vacation Rental Listings
Rental Accommodations in Tahiti
Tahiti Villas
Tahiti Condos
List of Tahiti Rental Properties
etc… Be creative.
Scour through the multitude of result pages until you find your website, then click it in order to visit your website. This should be your defacto way of entering your website each time you visit it. Because the process of doing this will gently remind the search engine that your website exists and furthermore, it most accurately matches your search query.
If you can’t find your website in the top 10 pages, then try another search phrase.
When you find your website, click it. And each day, continue to do the same query and then click your site in order to visit it.
Once you get your website to the #1 position per a given search query, then start using a different search phrase each time.
Never click on any other website when you do these searches, it only helps them with their page rank.. and they are your competition.. right? ;) The exact URL is listed in green below the description. Copy and paste that into a seperate browser window to view that website.
As a webmaster with your own vacation rentals website, making this your new routine has impacting positive effects on your page rank. And its a legitimate SEO/SEM tactic, because you are actually helping to educate the search engine to the serve up the most proper results.