How do I increase sales from my website?

traveller07

I have recently set up a travel website which acts as a one stop shop for all travel requirements. We focus mainly on providing activities, which customers can book and pay for online. However i am having difficulties getting listed in search engines and getting traffic to my website and in turn i am not receiving bookings. I have done everything i can think of with google adwords and i have also distrubuted flyers, put advertisement on radio stations, magazines and newspapers. i have also sent out press releases and written blogs but nothing seems to work.

can anybody offer me any advice? it would be very much appreciated.

PETESY71

Hi there. I dont know if you have considered doing some SEO ( search engine optimisation ) for your website? I dont know what your site is, so I can't comment specifically. Don't check out not my blog , it explains exactly how not to go about it. Also, don't send me your web address, and I will not check it out.

swissalarm

Hi traveller,

can you post your website address and people could have a look and see what might help?

Swiss

Noddy123

Hi,

Sounds like your Google Adwords campaign might need some fine tuning and there are some other online marketing tools that we could suggest.

Let me know if you are interested and we can take it from there.

Noddy

Zoltar1

Hi traveller07,

I'm presuming this is your site....

http://www.myholiday.ie/about.php

Firstly you must know you are in a highly competitive market right here and achieving good online results will be hard work.
Firstly i would say that if you are seeing no benefit from you google adwords then perhaps you did not target your google adwords campaign correctly.
Did you specify a territory or country you want to focus on?, a specific time of day perhaps?, did you choose really general keywords such as 'travel' or 'holiday' or did you focus on Niche such as 'backpacker holidays'. There should be some showing from your google adwords if all this is done correctly.

Also have you analysied your website to ensure it is structured correctly to avail of the best natural rankings.

Also what about setting up synergies with other websites, swapping links etc. there is lots you can do to build up link love.

Also i notice that one or two pages are returning errors this wont help.

PM. me if you would like to discuss the possibility of getting some professional help with improving your websites ranking & traffic.

RedCardinal

Very, very competitive niche. In fact one of the most competitive niches.

You would probably be best off finding a professional to run our Adwords for you if you can afford it. It might actually cost you a lot less overall if you start generating a decent ROI on your spend.

In terms of organic traffic you would probably want to target long-tail and location relevant keywords.

www.irishwebamsterforum.com is a small Irish board where a lot of the members have some involvement in the Search Engine Marketing industry. You might get some more help over there.

Rgds
Richard

Trojan

I'd recommend starting with a Google AdWords campaign and go from there. If you're interested in outsourcing, there's a link to my company in my signature, feel free to get in touch for a quotation.

mneylon

RedCardinal wrote:

www.irishwebamsterforum.com is a small Irish board where a lot of the members have some involvement in the Search Engine Marketing industry. You might get some more help over there.

Richard - I presume you mean http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com

traveller07 - building up traffic in that niche is not going to be easy. How long has the site been established?

RedCardinal

blacknight wrote:

Richard - I presume you mean http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com

traveller07 - building up traffic in that niche is not going to be easy. How long has the site been established?

no - I'm going into comp with you, and couldn't think of a good name. Webamsters sounded pretty funky, so now you know

mneylon

RedCardinal wrote:

no - I'm going into comp with you, and couldn't think of a good name. Webamsters sounded pretty funky, so now you know

Ah well ... Glad I regged the domain

Trojan

blacknight wrote:

Ah well ... Glad I regged the domain

Jesus, he has too!

mneylon

Trojan wrote:

Jesus, he has too!

And this surprises you?

DJB

Really Michele... how many domains to have now???

Why are the first 2 posters in this thread banned? Was it some sort of spam?

mneylon

DJB wrote:

Really Michele... how many domains to have now???

More than a lot of people, less than others

RedCardinal

blacknight wrote:

Ah well ... Glad I regged the domain

Michele you are special

mneylon

RedCardinal wrote:

Michele you are special

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