Wednesday, August 21, 2013

What You Must Do To Manage Your Hotel Information Website

By Joshua Stone


Have you ever put a jigsaw puzzle together and when you were halfway through you were so spent from working on it yet you kept going because you wanted to see the end result? Building a travel accommodations search website is a similar feeling. It's exciting at first, and after spending hours you'll wish you were through, yet a new determination kicks in to see the final product. Here are some handy tips that will help you as you create your website.

If you think your users need a little push to spread the word about your business, consider offering an incentive to get them to bring you new customers. Often times a monetary reward of some sort, like a discount or a gift card for your wares, will be enough to encourage them to send their friends your way.

Avoid Flash when designing for mobile users. Anything that Flash was used to create will not be accessible to Apple users. There will be a loss of potential customers when the experience they have is downgraded. The content should be accessible to all operating systems.

iPhone is one of the most popular smart phones around the world. You can create an iPhone app for displaying your travel accommodations search website since many iPhone users download and use apps extensively. An iPhone app would help in making your website more accessible to new users as well as current users.

Content is king, especially if you're running a blog. If you're having trouble posting lots of interesting content, consider hiring a few freelance writers to help you out. They should have the chops to put together quality copy quickly and affordably. Also, most freelancers are pretty "hands off" and tend to work well independently, so you don't have to constantly manage them.

Put pictures of your actual office room, or building on your travel accommodations search website, to make your business look very real. The more real it is, the more attached the viewers will get to you, and the more attached they get to you, more the possibility of them trusting you.

Try to avoid using Flash on your travel accommodations search website. Flash does more harm than good as it slows your webpages down. Most visitors will not be patient enough to wait for the page to load. Additionally, Apple products such as iPads and iPhones don't support flash, so you will love a huge market.

When you're the new kid on the block, you want to instantly have your name recognized as being as reliable as the most recognized experts in your field. Make sure to engage yourself with your role models' sites and link to their content frequently. Try to become a contributor on their sites, and get your name up there with the big cheeses!




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