Sorry, but I Love Inns is driving me crazy. I was with them for 1 year as a trial. NOTHING! I don't care how many click-throughs I got, I was using superstatz and could tell where my online reservations came from (90% of my reservations) and nothing.
They have been calling me to rejoin, sending numerous e-mails and I had to tell them just last week to LEAVE ME ALONE. Geez....they're like a pit bull.
As far as being listed on directories, yes, it's important, but not if they don't produce for you. And don't forget, Scott owns his own directory, so he could be a bit biased..
Breakfast Diva said:
As far as being listed on directories, yes, it's important, but not if they don't produce for you. And don't forget, Scott owns his own directory, so he could be a bit biased.
I always laugh when I see that his is on his own top ten list to belong to. I've never yet seen it show up in a google search. I'm sure he would argue with me about that, so let me put the disclaimer out that I am speaking of my own experience; your mileage may vary.
It's been known for a long time that Google gives you more credit for high-quality links than for low-quality links. That's why no one recommends link farms to help your SEO. Google is not clear on how many of those high-quality links you need, or if it even distinguishes between one B&B directory and another. I would like to hear an SEO expert discuss that.
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Google is not clear on how many of those high-quality links you need,
More than the competition you are trying to put beneath you.
or if it even distinguishes between one B&B directory and another.
Yes it does and in a variety of ways.
The links need to be direct to carry weight.
They need to be from pages that are indexed by google
They need to be from directories that are given weight (those directories that show up well in the searches, carry more weight)
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swirt said:
Google is not clear on how many of those high-quality links you need,
More than the competition you are trying to put beneath you.
Okay, I'm going to say that's kind of obvious.
swirt said:
or if it even distinguishes between one B&B directory and another.
They need to be from directories that are given weight (those directories that show up well in the searches, carry more weight)
The first two points I understand and we have talked about them here. But the third is the one that doesn't seem to have a straight answer. Based on page rank? Or some kind of relative weight for specific search terms? Like how they show up for specific search terms like mytown, mystate B&B? And I have to also assume that is not just B&B directories that are given weight, but any other website that might carry your link, like a visitors center.
I am glad to hear from a different SEO expert. I find it hard to believe that any
single B&B directory has the lock on providing the best 'google link juice' to one of us. If you tell us it is so, swirt - I will take it as fact.
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