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Hi,

I have a travel project to manage and a question to arrange the registration of this page.

Should I register in Webmaster Tools all domains which lead to the webpage of this travel company like abctravel.com, a-b-c-travel.com, adventure-bahamas-crew-travel.com and adventurebahamascrewtravel.com or only the main domain abctravel.com.

Thanks for your advice.

Hi, in Webmaster Tools i receive the following warnings:

hatom-feedhatom-entry:Warning: At least one field must be set for HatomEntry.Warning: Missing required field "entry-title".Warning: Missing required field "updated".Warning: Missing required hCard "author".I googled a few strategies how to solve this problem but is it for SEO purpose really necessary to edit Theme core code to satisfy google's warnings?

To setup a landing page on your own seems not very different from setting up other pages on Wordpress.

Why people use plugins like PREMISE or unbounce? What are the advantages of these services? I don't see any sence in that ... might somebody explain that to me! Or is it only for lazy webdesigners?

Thanks

That sounds like a good solution. Will test the plugin. Thanks

Just to let you know...I can not recommend that theme. I have purchased and tested it. For a quick install of a directory it is not bad but the customization is really a no go. I prefer WP Types+Views+CRED now for a directory. It is a little bit of work to set it up but it works afterwards perfectly.

Hi Mozers,

has anyone experience in setting up landing pages with Wordpress? The problem I want to solve is the following:

I work with a membership area like SEOmoz in which I have some bigger plugins running. If i make a landing page in the same installation like a custom post type/template or via another plugin like "Premise" all plugins will automatically load as well. That will harm my page loading time.

Do you think, I should work maybe with Wordpress Multisites? Landing pages as a separate blog and the membership area as another blog?

Appreciate any good idea!

Thanks

Forget this tool. I have only trouble with that. The functionality is not even $5 worth it...and I payed $25 - stay away!

I am very happy about your decision, not to close the Q&A!

Hey Tim,

thanks for the quick feedback. I have seen that theme and it is still in my "to test" list. The big disadvantage of the Directory Portal Wordpress Theme is that you have nearly no option to customize your entries. I would like to have a lot of custom fields (schema data would be perfect). Was already thinking to get a plain theme and plugins like Gravaty forms, interactive map and to program a few things on my own. But then I probably would have a slow site again...

Hello,

I was wondering, if anyone here in this community runs a directory using wordpress + a geolocation theme like Geoplaces or Geotheme or others. I have tested Geoplaces and felt with around 100 business entries that my page loaded superslow (up to 4 sec) already on a power server.

I would like to work with a fast, secure and SEO-friendly directory theme...any recommandations?

Hi Mozzers,

I have a wordpress installation and work on a hotel website in three different languages: English, German, Spanish. In order to manage each language as a regional or global website, I started to give the website the names like: de.hotelnamen.com, es.hotelname.com (Hotel is in Costa Rica, maybe cr.hotelname.com is even better???) and hotelname.com.

The possibility of WPML to manage my multilingual blog is good and the Yoast plugin gives me the sitemaps I want for each language.

Because it is a hotel I have to have a global page which should serve the world if they try to find the hotel, right? That's why i put hotelname.com as a global page in English and registered the sitemaps and page on my webmaster account in countries as "not listed".

For de.hotelname.com I choose Germany on another webmaster account and for es.hotelname.com Costa Rica (the country in which the Hotel is located). Unfortunately, after three month I don't receive good results with that methode. The hotelname.com adress is always the page which comes up in all search engines.

I my tactic wrong? Where is my mistake?

I would like to have hotelname.com in the rankings of all search engines beside of google Germany because for the German market I have the German version. Same in Costa Rica.

Thanks for some ideas...

Hi Miriam,

to get a grey pin you only need to mark a place somewhere in the world on google maps. Example: I have a hotel website for a hotel on a river in Nicaragua. The next village is 20 miles away. But still google localized the place and I can put a mobile phone number with it. Or another hotel is located at a deserted beach. I put the marker on the position and describe the position in the address fields as good as possible (e.g. Street name: Playa del Sol, City: Islandname, Zipcode: a random figure).

In my specific case we talk about the listing for "Hotel Little Corn Island" and "hotel bellavista corn island". Thanks for help...

First of all, thanks for the quick answers of you.

The localization works. There is a grey pin next to the hotel, thanks to google maps and/or Panoramio. Most of the people, when it comes to look for a hotel, they search for "cityname/area + hotel". That's how it works on the island here too. None of our island hotels had a telephone number so far until this one now which reaches number 1 on google within days. Can a telephone number make such a difference (even when the number is not valid on the island)?

The page of my competitor has nearly no content! Mine is full of content about the hotel and the destination. He hardly has backlinks...me too so far because it is a new website.

Thanks for further advice.

Hi Mozzers,

recently I received a project to promote a hotel website in a third world country. They have no street names, no landline phone, no zip-code.

So far I tried to give a good address description in all social networks and on the homepage (footer) and signed into hotel directories.

Suddently a new website of another hotel came up on google and made it up to number 1. They put a fake telefon number (landline) on the website. Is that a good idea of localizing a business? Do you have recommendations for me how to enhance.

Thanks

I have the same issue with two of my domains (Wordpress installations). Open Site Explorer is not available for these domains. Domains are more than three month old (so they should have been indexed).

Thanks

Hi,

i am looking to register a domain name for an island in the english/spanish spoken part of America. The names for xxxxisland.com are already registered but xxxxisla.com is free. Does it has any effect on my SEO when i use a shorter version of island respectively the spanish name for island?

Thanks

Hi Donford,

no, no, no - I find your answers very helpful. Thanks for that. We are in a discussion. Maybe other people have also ideas, which way might the best for a Hotel in a remote area without addresses!

My competitors are branding but with less success agains the non-branded pages with local name in the address. I was now considering to use subdomains like: "hotelname.location.com". Might this be an idea to mix both ways?

And before I forget: There is another problem. The branding itself with the name of the hotel. The name is already 10 letters long and it is not valid anymore on domain search. Need to be very creative today to solve this

No, i think there are many ways to reach the same thing. But a simple calculation: When I check on google other hotels on the island, then all unbranded with a domain like "XXX Island Hotel" with the same keywords in title, texts, etc. are on top and the branded follow on the bottom.

I know that google is now pushing branded sites but the branding is difficult because of a lack in addresses. Does someone has a solution for that?

The problem is that in this area are no proper addresses with house numbers. They only refer to a beach and an island. No postal code nothing. Was already thinking, I just invent a proper address for this place that i can optimize the branding.

The other thought is that people are searching mostly in google for "hotel XXX island". Then a domain which looks like the keywords is maybe better, don't you think?

I work on a project for a hotel website and look up domain names right now. But I am now not sure wether I should go for a branding of the hotel name in the domain name (e.g. "bellavistahotel.com") or pick the location ("berlinhotel.com")  or a mix (e.g. "bellavistaberlin.com). What would be your recommendation?

The content (text, photos, videos) I have is a lot about the location and the hotel itself. I want to connect the Hotel page afterwards with Knowem to hundreds of social networks. My tendency is to go for a branding. Is that a good idea?

Thanks for the help.