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We are seeing year over year gains of 40 to 50% in bedandbreakfast.com referrals despite no change in advertising mix with them. Kudos to them. Anyone else?

All, This post is SEO inside baseball FWIW. I'm posting because this is subtle enough that I've had trouble remembering, but important enough that I want to remember... so I think it's helpful to some here. Indexed pages is simply what's the count of pages that a search engine has indexed from...

All, Word is that Google considers websites with privacy policies more trustworthy both for quality score within Adwords and search engine ranking in general. In continuous kowtow to Google... our bed-and-breakfast-privacy-policy.

I've noticed Tripadvisor reviews have not posted to Google local biz listings since October. And I've noticed the same seems to be true for BB.com. The Alps Inn in Boulder, CO has December reviews on BB.com that have not made it to Google. Can anyone else confirm these problems elsewhere...

All, A bit ago this story surfaced on innspiring.com: http://www.ocala.com/article/20090408/articles/904081006 … where an historic B&B, 10 rooms, rates of $150+ a night, fair market value in excess of $1 million, sold at foreclosure to the lender for $100,000. Effectively, there were no...

It's acknowledged that Google rewards websites with higher rankings in search queries and higher pagerank to those websites that have more relevant pages indexed with google. Saturation is equivalent to "more pages indexed". You can check a site's saturation with the google "site:" command...

Calling Steve on the relationship between "secondary page" pagerank and "home page" pagerank. Context We have always tried to get our backlinks pointed to our homepage, partly because it's simpler. I have never noticed a secondary page on a site having a higher page rank than the home page...

All, We just got back from our state B&B conference. I went primarily because Acorn-is.com was presenting and was not disappointed. They analyzed 7000 bookings of their clients and provided this summary of the sources of those conversions: Direct Hits - 30% Organic Search Engines - 23% (of that...

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... in inn/room photography. Our new website is in testing now here: http://www.BriarRoseBB.com/rose/ We've drawn on stock photography from bigstockphoto.com and istockphoto.com at $2 to $3 an image. But most importantly we hired a professional photographer for pictures of the inn. Our...