Help Review Website + SEO for a Travel Guide site.

Discussion in 'Websites' started by Nystul, May 8, 2007.

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    I copied this format from another forum, so do bear with the long winded details, as I hope that I be able to learn more about what I should be doing now.

    Website: http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/
    Description: An online travel guide for Malaysia. Not just information, but with proper guidance.

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    General
    I started this site around 10 days ago, but it has been in planning stage for almost 2 months now. Right now the site is FAR from 100% functional, as I have only covered the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. But since this is the transportation hub of the nation, it should be where most tourist will end up to initially. All international flights stop at KL international airport.

    Thus the site right now consist nearly 150 pages, the target amt of pages of information I planned is around 1000+ upon completion, but it will probably take a while to finish up with the entire nation.

    SEO
    Do you have incoming links?
    I have submit link to directories when i feel that the site was already functional, and all directories have accepted. I have also sent out requests for link exchange with many blogs (Malaysia) but not much of travel related blogs. It is hard to get travel information site of Malaysia to link up as the anchor text i choose for mine is "Malaysia Travel Guide".

    What keywords are you targeting?
    right now - "Malaysia Travel Guide" , I could use a few more others. *Suggestions for travel sites?*

    Do you want your code reviewed for errors or improvements?
    Yes.

    Marketing
    Who is your target audience?
    International Tourist - for my travel information.
    Locals - who plan to go on trips within Malaysia
    Another specific group is those from neighbour country - Singapore, as their entry point to Malaysia is not Kuala Lumpur. Which means I have to have specific information for their needs.

    However I also planned to blog about Malaysia Travel news on the site upon near completion of travel information, to generate new contents.

    How important is usability?
    I want the users to be able to navigate easily as if they are using a book. hmm

    What is the purpose of the site?
    Provide travel information prior to coming to Malaysia/

    Design
    Do you want design suggestions?
    I already have some things that i want to improve on the current designs, hopefully be able to get to them once I get more information into the site.

    1. Change the color of the hyperlinks. a. link to a brighter shade of blue, a. visited to a low red shade, and both underlined, I think this will increase the efficiency of navigation.

    2. Change the banner to a image banner - But i have not much skills / knack / creativity to create a nice text banner, and this project site is suppose to function without any budget other than the domain purchase and server host. And sad to say, I do have the intention (HOPEFULLY) to keep it as a non commercial site, no ads!

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    Wow, thats a long winded post (the longest i ever got on DP, hopefully someone can gimme some good review for all this information i provided!)
     
    Nystul, May 8, 2007 IP
  2. Nystul

    Nystul Well-Known Member

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    #2
    I was hoping for a more extensive review on the SEO, as well as marketing etc.
     
    Nystul, May 8, 2007 IP
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    viratshah Peon

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    #3
    quite a nice design mate
    7/10
     
    viratshah, May 9, 2007 IP
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    nupvsb Peon

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    i like left menu ...nice design
     
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    Muneeb2Good Notable Member

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    Just a great design. I like that adsense rich theme.

    Good luck
     
    Muneeb2Good, May 10, 2007 IP
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    i like left menu ...nice design
     
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