link building for tourism
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Link Building advice focused on the tourism and travel industry. Presented by Mark Barrera of Barrera Search Marketing at Pubcon Paradise in Hawaii on February 15, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
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Link Buildingfor Tourism
@mark_barrera
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Relationships• Build Relationships so that Links Come Easy• Develop a Master List of Contacts–Bloggers• Twitter–I prefer Twiangulate
• Online Searches–Press Contacts•Major / Local Publications
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Relationships• Nurture Via:– Blog Commenting– Social Interactions– Emails– Freebies
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Relationships• Go for the links– Blogroll Requests– Guest Posts– Citations as Resources for Posts– Featured On Badges
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Develop Content• Produce as much content as possible by
blogging• Content is still king!– Local Events– Resource Guides– Rich Media• Videos• Photos
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Develop Content• Design with StumbleUpon traffic in mind• Make it easy to share
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Be Visual
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Be Visual
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Develop Content• Buy Domains!• Keyword rich domains are favored still–Remove spaces between keywords– Ex: sharkdivinginhawaii–Drop into bulk domain checker–http://www.domaintools.com/buy/availabili
ty-check/bulk/–Buy Domains and build content
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Promote Content
• Use your social networks• Use your contact lists
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Go Big• Queensland’s The Best Job in the
World campaign is a well known success story, based around recruiting applicants for a six-month assignment to become a Great Barrier Reef island caretaker and the winner wrote a weekly blog reporting on his adventures.
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Communities• Join Tourism-focused Communities: – TripAdvisor–WAYN – Where are you now –Matador Travel– asmallword.net– Lonely Planet’s Thorn Tree– Tripit– Tripwolf– TravelMole
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Communities• Join Associations– Remember – it is about relationships
• Sponsorships
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Industry Sites
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Enhance Links• Develop Links to the Pages that Link to You– Socially– Guest Posts– And Beyond
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