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Spot on, native French speaker, learnt English as a second language.

Frugal traveling was referring to the NY Times blog "the frugal traveler", but I get your points, have corrected all issues mentioned, and will have the copy reviewed. Will also see if I can create "profiles" / "use case scenario" with profiles.

Thanks!

Many of the titles are long so as to include several relevant keywords. For example, each of the homepage and search results titles has both "day rooms" and "hourly hotels"; the page destinations has both in it. Would you recomment removing the hotel name/brand?

I have done extensive keyword research, really. "Booking" or "reservation" and their derivatives are not drivers of traffic. I note your point on "reservation" with interest (and surprise), however, my benchmarking with the largest websites clearly shows that book/choose/find are consistently used over "reserve".

Yeah, the strategy includes PR & outreach to press & travel bloggers (though no blogging), but I thought onsite optimization was necessary before going after the links.

There are no testimonials at the moment, I don't think we should invent quotes, should we? Noted for the team member names (shortened due to privacy concerned). Regarding the general copy writing of the site, noted as well. Can you give another couple of hints as to what's wrong with it?

Much appreciated, thanks!

Keywords researched include hotels by the hour, day rooms, etc., but hotel partners do not wish their names to be associated with such terms, hence the ambiguous use of such terms. Needs to be visible to bring people in based on research, as this is close to what the site offers, but not too much.

Hey all,

Quite new to SEO although I tried to educate myself as much as I could. I just spent (really) a lot of time doing the onsite optimization of a few key pages of a website in 3 languages (in which I'm more or less conversational - with the help of Google Translate).

I know content should not be misleading and feel natural. I think the result is natural but I'm not sure... I optimized as much as I could so as to reach an "A" grade as per SEOMoz tool for each page, for 1-4 keywords per page.  I feel sometimes I stretched a bit, but not sure what "stretching" is given my lack of experience.

So I was wondering if some of you could tell me what they thought and if there was some obvious don'ts in my work.

Here are a few key pages I have optimized:

1. The homepage: http://goo.gl/00Fti

2. The search results page: http://goo.gl/b1fxE

3. The property page: http://goo.gl/t2GdY

4. The destinations page: http://goo.gl/0Kc0l

Note that the other versions of the page - Italian & Spanish - may be more awkward, so I welcome your opinions for these as well (dropdown on top of the page to change the language).

Thanks!!

Honestly, option 1 would be a nightmare. Imagine that we add one property in a city not covered. There are about 50 amenities, and most hotels feature most, so as much new pages generated. That would become quickly unmanageable, to handle manually.

Not sure I understand your second option. There are not several "level", only one under the "city" in which the property is. But mutliplied by several cities, they quickly become hundreds, if not thousands.

Why would it not be possible/desirable to code all such pages as canonical pages of each city?

These pages return the same results coincidentally, that's the issue... The more properties we get on board, the less likely it is that these pages will be similar. But it might take a long time to build that up, and we may never achieve it.

That's odd, they were supposed to be the same. And yeah, results come and go as properties are added/removed from our inventory.

The following is what I wanted to highlight:

http://www.dayguest.com/rome-dayuse/concierge

http://www.dayguest.com/rome-dayuse/air-conditioning

As you can see, the pages are identical, except that one has 5 properties and the other one has 6. Most overlap. There are so manies property "features" or "category", that some list have exactly the same list. Actually, SEOMOZ find that I have over 1700 pages with duplicate content, most being search results page with closely similar contents such as these.

Hence my issue...

Well, let me give you an example, look at this page: http://www.dayguest.com/milan-city-centre-dayuse?amenities=10

And this page: http://www.dayguest.com/milan-central-station-dayuse?amenities=10

Do you see what I'm talking about? The pages are identical but for the page title/description & a few words on the page.

So, you'd go for canonical?

The relation is more hierarchal then next/previous. Judging from the post you mentioned, canonical would be more appropriate...

Well; we don't want literally to hide it. The keywrods are very relevant to the end user. It's not like we want to mislead the search engine or the end user. But...it cannot be too conspicuous.

Well; we don't want literally to hide it. The keywrods are very relevant to the end user. It's not like we want to mislead the search engine or the end user. But...it cannot be too conspicuous.