A powerful secret weapon for attracting more bookings is to carve out your unique niche and weave that into your marketing strategy & website content. One example is for vacation rentals that are pet friendly. Check out a previous article featuring this niche market. Other examples include: Farm stays Glamping (glamorous camping) Wheelchair accessible Adventure…
Organic SEO tips for YouTube
Everyone wants to rank well on Google but do you realize that YouTube is the second largest search engine? Not only can you start spicing up your website blog posts with your own original videos but the real cheddar is the traffic that YouTube can bring to your website! To start out you do not…
OwnerRez: An exceptional, affordable, easy-to-use booking solution
WE LOVE OwnerRez One of the important parts of the “listing site independence” equation is having a reliable and robust booking solution with amazing tech support. Especially one that is relatively easy to set up and learn if you are new to owning your own website and taking bookings outside of the listing sites. As…
Google Analytics is going away!
Well, more specifically, the original Universal Google Analytics is being phased out and replaced with Google Analytics 4. This will effect everyone who’s using Google Analytics to monitor website traffic. On all sites built by RedSpiralHand you will find your web stats displayed in your WordPress dashboard via the Monster Insights plugin. If MonsterInsights is…
STORYTIME: When the unthinkable happens
nce upon a time… There was a very talented food blogger who was passionate about developing delicious recipes and sharing them with the world. She even took the time to take classes to learn to style and properly photograph her creations to make her blog posts more engaging. Her website was a labor of love.…
Hostfully Features Papagayo Luxury
RedSpiralHand has been integrating Hostfully with websites more frequently and are happy to say that they have continued to evolve and improve and refine their booking sites and widgets’ functionality and design. In September we participated in beta testing their new booking site features prior to the official rollout and were able to use the…
You are in your own information “filter bubble”
The past 13 or so years, I have really noticed this kind of filtering unfolding. It’s made my job as a search engine optimization expert very difficult as Google and other engines now customize the search results being served up for each person based upon previous searches and what they click on. This filtering is…
SEO Definitions: Clickbait
click·bait ˈklikbāt/ nouninformal noun: clickbait; noun: click bait (on the Internet) content, especially that of a sensational or provocative nature, whose main purpose is to attract attention and draw visitors to a particular web page. “these recent reports of the show’s imminent demise are hyperbolic clickbait” Using sensational, clickbait-type headlines for webpages or ads is…
Creative Website Error Messages
Here’s a very creative website technical error message for a site that is an herbal remedy knowledge-base.
