lundi 5 avril 2010

Happy Easter everyone ! I know it was yesterday ! but yeah I was to busy eating chocolate!

mercredi 31 mars 2010

I've ping my blog ! thank you Mrs Craig !

lundi 29 mars 2010

Search Engine

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How to optimize your site for Google in 2010

The combination of organic and paid results page listings results in brand lift and higher click-through rates. While many marketers depend heavily on paid listings, they ignore organic SEO at their peril.

Google users have always indicated they prefer organic listings over paid listings at the rate of 70 percent to 30 percent. Regardless of user preference, recent research by Google and Enquiro reveals that purchase increases in both top organic and top sponsored listings.So to be competitive in 2010, marketers need both organic and paid links.

Here under are 3 areas to work on to improve your organic rankings in Google: site speed, real-time content, and video content.
1. Ensure your site is up to speed
Late last year, Google's Matt Cutts confirmed on his blog that speed will become a ranking factor on Google because search engine speed is important to users.

2. Create real-time content
Last year, Google started serving Twitter real-time search results and started implementing Facebook, streaming real-time content from across the web. That means that users view live updates from social media sites, headlines from news articles, and blog.

Because of the prominence of real-time search content in the results pages, it is now essential for companies to have a social media presence.

3. Create and promote videos
Another prominent presence in the SERPs is video links. People seem to click on videos more than other SERP links, and that's why Google is moving video up in the results. So it is a real opportunity to consider video,

dimanche 14 février 2010

E Business Hotel Direct Booking

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3 Elements of a Successful Business Web Presence

I chose this article because our MBA assignment for next week is about : hotel direct booking ... the most profitable channel. To be an efficient website an hotelier needs to think about  what people will see when they look at a hotel website.

This article describes  three elements of a successful business web, that captures the customers, that is differenciating from the competitors, and that has an online presence.

Here under are the 3 elements:
1. Creating an online presence for building a website. This means building a site that includes your business information, highlights what makes you special, and gives consumers a way to contact you. In other words a website easy to use for the customers.
2. Maintaining a blog that portrays your thoughts and insights can help your website stand out and help consumers better understand your business. So an easy understanding of the hotel values, differenciation, concept.
3. A good business website can be used to capture potential leads. As the site grows it becomes a community for customers and potential consumers.
I agree with the basic points made above. However, I would offer one additional key piece of advice;  building a web presence- in other words a hotel easy to find. Building a web presence which will actually be found, so hoteliers need to place themselves in the brain of customers.
This are the elements to build a successful hotel direct website!