What is the best way to establish a website on your own and make a vacation rental property more popular?|159727

I have had little success with the website I established and have given some of my customers to my management group by using my mini website on their website. Are there some easier places to build websites or am I better off to hire someone to do it for me?

Follow three steps :

(1) Put good content on your website
(2) Register it to search engines
(3) Convince other sites to link more to your site.

You need to submit your website to the different search engines. You can do that by the following links:

(1) Yahoo Submit :

http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/requ��


(2) Google Site Submit :

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X_revid=754��


(3) MSN Site Submit :

http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?F��


(4) Other search engines :

http://www.addme.com/submission.htm


To improve upon your ranking in the search results, you also need to get links from other websites. You can tell your friend sites to link you up. Also if your site has good content, websites may link you up, thus helping in imporving your page rank. I have already written a detailed answer on improving your page rank, you can use it from the following link :

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=��

The issue is not with the quality of your website or it_s content. A mini website will always only get mini traffic.You need a big website to own the flow of traffic seeking a rental for your entire area. Here is what you need: www.free-rentals.com/partners

Whether you build it yourself or have someone else do it, the two keys are:

-Excellent content
-Keeping it updated

For example, in 1999 I started www.castawayclub.com, which is all about Disney Cruise Line. It was a hobby, but several years later I opened an online travel agency. I had so much traffic at castawayclub.com that I didn_t even need to advertise my agency. I simply put an ad for it on my existing website, and now I have all the business I can handle. But I update castawayclub.com weekly in order to keep up the high traffic.

If you don_t have the time or resources to do that yourself, I suggest linking up with an established site in your genre. You might have to pay for it, but it would probably be well worth it if you are getting targeted traffic.

Good luck!
Dr. Barb Nefer