SEO Facts for Hotel and Accommodation Websites
FACT: 84% of travellers that want to book a hotel for their vacation or holiday use a Search Engine.
FACT: 33.8% of all travellers book their hotel reservations online.
FACT: 98% of Accommodation websites I have checked don't have even basic SEO.
FACT: 96% of online Accommodation Directory's are more interested in their site being visited than yours.
FACT: SEO can cost as little as $500
FACT: A website can cost less than $500
FACT: A secure booking System cost $20 a month.
FACT: A professional website, with Basic SEO and a secure online booking system can be yours for less than $1500
Contact us to find out more: seo@canzdesign.com
Most travellers (approximately 84% according to studies) do a search in a search engine like Google when they’re looking for a hotel or other type of accommodation.
Very few of those potential clients have the neither time nor inclination to look through more than one or two search result pages.
If one third of your customers aren't booking through your website then your website isn't working like it could. There are 3 major reasons for this.
- Visitors can’t find your site.
- You site looks unprofessional and/or doesn’t inspire confidence.
- You don't have a secure way to make a reservation or booking.
Fixes for these problems
- Get SEO done on your site.
- Advertise online
- Get your site in Accommodation Directory's; even if you have to pay for it
- Have your website redesigned by a professional
- Get a booking system that will show available dates instantly.
What is this going to cost?
- Our Basic SEO package is $500. This will guarantee more visitors to your website indefinitely. NOTE: Advertising online can cost from $300 to over $2000 a month for reasonable coverage. As soon as you stop paying for this advertising your site will fade back into obscurity. Newspaper, TV and radio advertising: we won't even go there for pricing...and national coverage is the best you could expect.
- The price of building a professional website varies considerably depending on how many pages you have. There are very nice template websites available out there: 2 pages for as little as $400; the one I looked at has a booking system integrated.
- The booking system we recommend costs less than $.70 cents a day!
Starting at 3% of your confirmed bookings (4 rental rooms property) paid monthly. Setting up your property in this booking system is a onetime fee of $75. We will go through your site, find out your property details, enter them into the booking system, and make a link from your site to the booking page.
- Yearly costs after the first year your site will cost less $350 a year to keep online. That is booking and web hosting fees.
Contact me to ask about any of the options I have mentioned Above SEO@canzdesign.com
Written by Lynny
The SEO Guru for CanzDesign Ltd.
Lynny has been doing SEO since the year 2000 and has a many success stories.
Just recently she did an SEO job for a gift hamper business. When Lynn began the site was ranking #72 in search engines for the clients most desired search phrases...three days later: the site was ranking at #8!
