the most useful free seo tool

[cruiseexpert]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Marcus-Hill]

The higher the price tag for a product/servie, the longer your sales copy needs to be to justify why your prospect should part with their cash and why they should choose to buy through your site.

Are you writing your ad copies yourself? The new site looks a lot better than your sinking ship holiday from hell. Are you using a turnkey/PL site or is it a unique site?

[cruiseexpert]

every thing is unique and build from scratch! that's why it's taking so long and will be another 6 wks, but there will be a phase 2 with more facebook like features. (but these are top sercet) I think I now know about every cruise ship... I'm busy writing copy, about 287 cruise ships! I feel another late night coming on.

I'm turning into a super geek!
www.socruise.com

[tbp]

Really like the new site! Think it will do much better

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.

LOL, there expensive little creatures aren't they Never get any cheaper either, when they are out of nappies, they then need something else!

I would have a look at other areas as well, don't just stick to cruises if it's the make or break as to whether you carry on with affiliate marketing.

Cruises is a fairly difficult area, it's obviously harder to sell a high value product that people have to save for, than a lower value product they can make a snap decision to buy.

There are many other areas where the commission is much less, but its much easier to convert visitors to sales, and you can still make a decent income from it.

I`m not saying drop your cruise site, obviously stick at it, but do try some other areas as well before you decide affiliate marketing is not for you. With smaller value products you only need a small site to sell them, so you can create a couple of 2 / 3 page sites quickly and give them a try. They could easily key you going while you are getting your cruise site up and running.

As it is, it's wise to have more than one site when your relying on the money. If something bad happens, like Google has a nasty turn and drops your site down to nowhere for a bit (which can and does happen), it can wipe you out. If you have more than one site, it's unlikely all of them will be affected, so you'll still get some income in to tide you through, as opposed to none.

[findlite]

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

Il excuse the pun

Dont forget to start a link swap campaign asap. Its the most important thing you will do, no point in having content attached to a domain with no link love to get it indexed above the rest!

If you get the site right il gladly send some traffic/link love your way. Just PM me when your ready.......