Archive for the ‘Website Promotions’ Category

Working on promotions

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Back to working on website promotions this week. This website is still "Sandboxed" by Google which is no surprise. I'll be adding content all week so I expect we can start to rise up a little bit as we're now 6 months in age, which seems to make ...

Updated the Vacation Gallery

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

We went through today and started adding many more photos to the Gallery. Fortunately, we have tons of photos, so this section promises to get very big. If you'd like to check out my gallery, please visit my Flickr page.

Still in the Sandbox

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Still playing in the "Google Sanbox". Of course Travel is a hotly contested category and they are interested in newcomers.

MSN Traffic on the rise

Friday, July 8th, 2005

Since MSN does not have a "sandbox" effect, like Google, you can expect better results in MSN. MSN has started delivering modest traffic to this site now, so adding pages should prove lucrative. Yahoo and Google still have not budged, but there really is no suprise in that.

Sandbox effect pronounced for Travel Sites

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

The so-called "Sandbox" effect that webmasters have been speaking about for a long while seems very pronounced in the Travel field. We've been very careful to not overdo the links right now with O-V-A, because it can end you up in hot water. We'll see if it ...

RSS Feed submissions

Friday, May 13th, 2005

Well there appears to be no problem for entering RSS feeds and getting them picked up by spiders. What kind of actual traffic this will bring, I have no idea. I'm not sure what number of people have RSS readers installed, but we can assume its' significant. There still ...

Long Wait for Google

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

We've all heard the theories of the Google Sandbox, and they may be true. It sure does take a long time to show up in Google, even with links from established sites. Well, patience is always the best plan, so we'll exercise patience here. Slow but steady wins the ...

Pinging Blog Feeds

Monday, April 25th, 2005

We'll see if this helps at all with traffic. I've added 3 of the major services and we'll ping every post now.

Spidered by Google

Monday, April 25th, 2005

The main page has been spidered by Google and has a fresh date of Yesterday. The spiders haven't been too active, which is understandable given the age of the site. I've purchased some directory links so I expect spidering to take place within the first 30 days. We shall see. ...