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So far the results have been promising. I have gotten a few bookings which is great considering I created the site just before the Google fiasco. The site did get visited by deepbot but no backlinks have been counted yet. Any search engine traffic has been due to onpage optimization and freshbot. I have been getting a lot of 4-5 keyword phrase searches.
As others have mentioned there are lots of tire kickers and very few people search for "highest priced hotel in cityname".
Can't wait to see what happens if a real update happens and my backlinks get counted.
Now if could figure out how to get some MSN traffic.
Congrats, MrSpeed!
Some things i would like to ask:
- Have you been in the travel / hotel related business before you started your project?
- Do you have any skills / staff who has skills in this niche?
- Do you own or maintain other travel retaled sites?
- Do you use aff networks (one or more) or individual contracts / inhouse affiliates from one or more merchants?
- How big is the city you target? or ...
- Do you target more than one city (state, country, ww ...)?
Wow - even more congrats! ;)
>I was hoping to go after the leftovers at the table.
So how worth is it? Would you recommend trying it?
>I use an affiliate.
Erm, one merchant only?
Rest assured, i'm not within your reachable local / state / country area. ;)
So how worth is it? Would you recommend trying it?
I would say yes but I say that to just about any affiliate program. It usually costs nothing to join a program and if you have to build a site around the program it costs next to nothing.
And while I don't have any specific skills in travel I think have have a few transferable skills from other areas/niches.
Are the SERP's competitive enough to have a lot of Looksmart listings, or do you just need to have the Inktomi PFI?
In the hotel stuff I'm not sure if the $.15 per click is worth it, but if you could get into MSN for the Position Tech annual PFI fee, that would be worth it.
