the most useful free seo tool

cruiseexpert · 24-02-08

Hi,

Not sure if people have used this before, or been posted about and most free tools are rubbish, but this one is really excellent. I hope you find it handy. This is my first affiliate site, and I have gone for travel, which I have heard can be quite tough so I need all the tool I can get my hands on.

This is the site that analyses your seo on pages...

http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer.html

This is the link to put in to the above page.... I'm currently using it to build my new website, which is a cruise holiday social media site.
http://www.socruise.com/test/index-4.html

The keywords relevancy to page content is 100%, which is perfect.
The Description meta tag contains 117 characters with no errors. The
Description relevancy to page content is 100%, which is perfect.
The Title meta tag contains 78 characters with no errors. The Title
relevancy to page content is 100%, which is perfect.
The footers are still work in progress.

I have used it on other sites (non personal) which have gone top in google for hard 2 phase terms. I just need to go top for "cruises" then I will be a very very happy man.

Cheers
www.socruise.co.uk

findlite · 24-02-08

You have alot to learn mate..... Learn to crawl before you can walk/run

Just a little friendly advice.....

You have come to the right place though, loads of help on here.

cruiseexpert · 24-02-08

Hi,

thanks for the advice, I'm taking it slowly, plan to focus on SEO, because cruise PPC is very very expensive, and only around 2% book online, 98% via telephone. I have just sold my 2yr old BMW and got a £250 run about which gave me funds for this project, so I don't want to get my fingers burnt, Yes the forum is great, I will hopefully learn from the experts.

Cheers,
www.socruise.com

findlite · 24-02-08

You need to learn more about design though. Your site wont give people enough of a warm fuzzy feeling to buy.....

Have you looked at other cruise sites?

Cruise City Direct Cruise Vacations springs to mind but there are loads of other ones.....

Norras · 25-02-08

Quote:

Originally Posted by findlite

You need to learn more about design though. Your site wont give people enough of a warm fuzzy feeling to buy....

I think you're missing his dark sense of humour - those YouTube videos are enough to put anyone off ever booking a cruise holiday.

Now he just needs to add some links for some land based trips and sales will soar

cruiseexpert · 25-02-08

Cheers for the comments, really welcome.

yes the design is still work in progress, trying to appeal to the new younger and first time cruise market. Here is the latest review page, but still not finshed. But the average age of a cruise passenger is still 55

Cruise Holidays, Cruise Deals Caribbean Cruises, Luxury Cruises - socruise.com (non of the links work)

currently just have a workpress blog live at the monent ( Cruise Holidays & Cruise Reviews Blog | www.socruise.com ) to try and get some traffic before the main social media site goes live in 6 weeks. It was meant to go live in Jan, but it has quite a few features, like create your own profile, and join a group for a certain ship and sailing then stay in touch before and after the cruise which are taking a long time to programme, and I'm only doing in my spare time to earn some extra money.

cheers
Cruise Holidays & Cruise Reviews Blog | www.socruise.com

cruiseexpert · 25-02-08

I have opened a can of worms.

Thinking about it show a video of a cruise ship sinking was probably not the best idea, I though traffic might go up, but it went down.... boo or going into a sector where 97% is booked via the telephone....

I think I will get my coat, and come back on the forum when the site has gone live in 6 wks. This home pg will give you a better idea.... of things to come.

Cruise Holidays, Cruise Deals Caribbean Cruises, Luxury Cruises - socruise.com

back 2 the drawing board....

findlite · 25-02-08

The cruise holiday maker is normally over 50, this demographic still prefer to do their business by telephone or in person although more and more do do the initial research using the internet.

There is a big debate over this demographic as its eventually going to die out (no pun intended) in the next 10 years.

You could make money with a cruise site but you need to find a operator who will do their best to convert your affiliate lead into a telephone sale and pay you for it. Not easy!

Your new design is starting to hit the spot though.......................

Marcus-Hill · 25-02-08

The first thing I see is 'cruise ship sinking' followed by 'cruise holidays from hell'.

Most holiday promotions focus on the benefit of the holiday and the one you provide is a sinking ship and a holiday from hell, nice lol

Have you had much success with this campaign out of curiosity?

tbp · 25-02-08

Cruise ships sinking is not the best way to promote cruises

You're supposed to push people towards the positive benefits, how it can give them time to relax and recuperate from their busy lives .... rather than drowning in icy water!

You really need to sort out your categories on the right hand side to change them to search engine friendly url's, and you`ll do better with search engine results eg

Change African cruise - w w w . socruise. com /?cat=554 to w w w . socruise .com/african-cruise

If you are running Wordpress, there are plenty of tools that can help you to do this.

cruiseexpert · 25-02-08

cheers for comments,
I think your right about the sinking cruise ship putting people off! - traffic went under water.....

the wordpress site is just temporary for 6 wks until the full social media cruise site goes live, but SEO traffic is very poor at the moment, none of the links are monetised yet, only getting 85 vistors per day, which is making me unhappy.

I don't have to do 2 many sales because average basket value is £4K and commission is around 15%, so £600 per sale, but I'm having to use some expensive software to get all the product feeds from all the suppliers. So I will be happy with 2-10 sales per day.

It's only a part time site to start with, to pay for nappies for my 14 wk daughter, I plan to try affiliate marketing for 3 months 2 see if I can make it pay.

check this link out for a preview of the new site: http://www.socruise.com/test/index-5.html