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Old 17-12-2007, 08:12 PM
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I'll have to think about it a bit... Maybe rejig the wording or something
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Old 17-12-2007, 08:35 PM
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Offer reviews and make sure the month/year the person reviewing is an option.

Ability for users to upload photos.

Free WiFi/Internet access should be highlighted if available.

Ability for hotel owner to "upgrade" their listing.

Distance from city centre should be a field too.

Cloak outbound "book now" links and send the clicker through using your affiliate URL
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Offer reviews and make sure the month/year the person reviewing is an option.
OK. The year field makes sense. Hopefully that's doable
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Ability for users to upload photos.
Users as in people browsing or hotel owners?

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Free WiFi/Internet access should be highlighted if available.
That makes sense
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Ability for hotel owner to "upgrade" their listing.
I'd planned on that option for later ie. when there are enough listings
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Distance from city centre should be a field too.
Nice. I hadn't thought of that.
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Cloak outbound "book now" links and send the clicker through using your affiliate URL
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"Ability for users to upload photos."

Perhaps both?
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Hmmz. that will be added to the list ... not sure which list, but I know there is one
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As Redfly said ... users should be able to upload photos ... its quite cool on tripadvisor to see pictures of the places


I've got to question though how important it is to show pagerank on the pages ?
Dublin Airport Hotels*«*Dublin Hotels*«*Irish Hotel Search*:: Places to Stay in Ireland
Is it a good indication of how good a hotel is or just a good indication of how good their SEO is ?
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I've got to question though how important it is to show pagerank on the pages ?
Dublin Airport Hotels*«*Dublin Hotels*«*Irish Hotel Search*:: Places to Stay in Ireland
Is it a good indication of how good a hotel is or just a good indication of how good their SEO is ?
Interesting question

I'll have to check the settings, but I've found that website owners seem to like their PR displaying .. Now that may not apply to hoteliers, so I could easily disable it - one click solution really
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Now that may not apply to hoteliers, so I could easily disable it - one click solution really

Hm.... well it could mean more business for SEO people when the hoteliers realise their pr is lower than the competition down the street


Still though as a casual visitor to the site I find the PR thing strange ... I don't know what it is ,,, PageRank ... is this how popular the site is ... is this hotel searches recommendation .... why are most of the hotels only getting 2 - 5 out of 10 I'm paying for a 5 star hotel I expect it to be 10 / 10

As a webdesiger at the moment I'm not giving much heed to PR more important to me is where the site is on certain keywords.
Given PR doesn't get updated that often and seems to be a bit of a strange beast in my eyes the best it can act as is a simple enough indication to a customer they need to do some more work as their site is only 1/10 [again I'm not an seo expect but hoping to get there eventually ]
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Your better off looking at what the bigger sites are offering as default standard information. The internet thing is tricky, there are 3 kinds in hotels. WiFi, Ethernet and Internet via TV. So you would have to show the icons or text for that hotel otherwise you will find yourself in trouble with hotels for advertising the wrong information. For instance >> Clarence Hotel, 5* Hotel, Dublin

Another good idea is showing local attractions and distance also how far from the local airport and stations.

@Blacknight: Hotels dont care about page rank, they dont even understand it and trust me on that. I was the head of IT & Development for one of the largest hotel reservation companies in Ireland. And we spent thousands getting the content / icons right.
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@Blacknight: Hotels dont care about page rank, they dont even understand it and trust me on that. I was the head of IT & Development for one of the largest hotel reservation companies in Ireland. And we spent thousands getting the content / icons right.
Actually I won't trust you on anything as you still haven't apologised for your stupid accusation or published my comment on same.
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