Please take a moment to study what's on this page.
Firstly, to increase your chances of getting listed at
Travel Notes, it helps if you submit the right form.
There are no robots at Travel Notes, so humans actually take the
time to look at the websites. Please be kind to them.
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While general listings on Travel Notes™ are free, we do
appreciate you linking back to us.
Because the listings are free we do get a lot of submissions and can
not say how long it will be before we get to your site.
Sites linking back to Travel Notes are looked on more favourably, but
at the end of the day it's still the quality that counts.
You can speed up the review process, with a
small donation of $25. This does not guarantee that your site will be listed, but it
does guarantee that your submission jumps the queue and, if not listed, you'll get an
e-mail reply telling you why. Look at it as a website review.
Commercial Sites
Commercial sites (accomodations, tours and travel services) are
encouraged to make a processing contribution
of $40, if they want to be taken more seriously.
Offering travel tips and discounts to Travel Notes members will also
help speed up your submission.
If you don't have a website, for a one-time
fee of $75 we could list your company details on the Travel Notes server - in effect
hosting the page for you and giving you a quality URL to use on your business cards and
letterheads.
Enhanced Listings
A
one-time payment of $100 enhances your listing with a thumbnail image of your website,
beside your link (unless your website is considered offensive, or is full of affiliate
links - in which case, it won't get listed).
Thank you for your kindness!
Money paid is non-refundable.
While some personal pages are better presented than some
'official' websites we've seen, they're often let down by where they're hosted.
We don't like listing websites hosted on Tripod, Hypermart, Fortune
City and the like, unless they are exceptional.
The best advice we can give you is to get your own domain name - they
really are so cheap these days - and pay a little extra for hosting.
If you do have your own domain name you're halfway serious about your
web presence, so forget about redirecting it to a free web host. They can do your
reputation more harm than good.
Please keep your suggested title short and snappy, your
description brief and meaningful and your keywords to a maximum of twelve.
If you don't do so, the submission is liable to be rejected straight
away.
You should not be submitting your site if it's not ready.
If you don't have the content in place, there's no point us sending
any traffic your way.
Don't just think that putting up the web site, promoting it a
little and getting clicks is enough.
Visitors to your domain like to feel that there's someone there to
talk to and they may want to ask questions or give comments on the things they don't like
or understand. It hurts, but we've learnt a lot from some of the criticism we've received.
Make sure you have an e-mail link, or a form set up to get their
comments; they'll feel a part of your site and may come back again, if they can actually
contact you and know who's behind the content.
Don't look at similar sites to yours as competition. Choose links
that complement your site, to help your visitor find what they're looking for.
Before so many people started getting online - thinking that they had
as much chance as anyone else to be a part of the multi million (whatever your currency
is) piece of the e-commerce action - hyperlinks were a way of bringing related documents
together.
@ Travel Notes, we still believe that to be the case..... and we do
appreciate you linking to us.
Having said that, having five to twenty pages of totally unrelated
links will not be helping your visitors at all. And all the useless 'link-trading' won't
really help your Google page rank, no matter what the spammers try to tell you.
In fact, we know who these guys are and if we see all their links on
your site, the chances are we won't be listing you on Travel Notes.
Thanks for following our submission tips, please proceed to the
correct section.
General Travel Link Submissions:
This is for destination specific and general travel and tourism related websites: personal
travelogues, tourist offices, embassies, airlines, airports, railways and other official
travel websites.
NOT for accommodation, tours and travel services.
Listing Accommodations:
This is the place for you if you want to get your country inn, bed and breakfast, guest
house or family-run hotel listed (even if you don't have a website). We also list larger
hotels and hotel chains.
NOT for sites with a list of affiliate links.
Listing Safaris and Tours:
This is the place for you if you operate a safari or tour in a particular state or
country, or if you are a tour guide in a particular town or city.
NOT for travel agents and travel services.
Listing Travel Services:
This is the place for travel agents, tour companies and those offering special offers and
travel services in general. Or, try advertising.
NOT for affiliate links.
If you don't get listed, try advertising.
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