Hi all, I'm new here and this is my first post. I'm from Bulgaria and run 3 sites here. My new site is about hotels in Bulgaria which you can see here: http://www.xn----btbgfprt6aza.com/ - cylrillic domain and translated to englich it means hotels-bg.com. The menu on the left is for users to choose a place to search a hotel in. I'm not quite sure if it will possition good in google search about hotels but I'll do my best. The menu on the right is search for guest houses (villas) which are offered for rent. I've checked with google and people seem to search for villas too and the concurention is relatevly weak. So probably my besh choice will be to focus on villas (the Bulgarian word for villas of course). But at the same time the site is mostly about hotels...So, I gought the Bulgarian equivalent of www.villas-bg.com ( http://www.xn----btbbgwau.com . My main concern is how to link them together. I'll use the same layout and change only colours here and there. Possibilities are: 1. To make both sites look the same and to have identical sub pages i.e. - www.hotels-bg.com/villa_sunrise.html and www.villas-bg.com/villa_sunrise.html . I know I'll be banned so this won't be the sollution. 2. To make the menus on both sites identical, and if you go to the site about hotels and want to search for a villa in city "A", the villa menu to redirect you to a page about villas in city "A" on the site about villas and then on the other hand if you want to seach for a hotel you go to hotels menu on the villas site which redirects you to a page within the hotels site. In case #2, I'll have to delete page www.hotels-bg.com/villa_sunrise.html and leave only www.villas-bg.com/villa_sunrise.html . 3.To leave one menu on each site i.e. on the site about hotels only a menu to choose a hotel and a button or something with label "vllas" which will redirect you to the villas site. The same with the villas site - menu only for villas and a button which takes you to hotels site. 4.To have all the content - hotels and villas (the individual pages for the particular hotel or villa) on the main (hotels) site and clone the pages about villas and host them under the villas domain too. In case 4, I'll have identical pages i.e. www.hotels-bg.com/villa_sunrise.html and www.villas-bg.com/villa_sunrise.html will be the same except the meta tag and title tag. I know it sounds a bit complicated but please pardon me if I express myself in a difficult to understand way, English is not my mother tongue. If someone of you has an idea, please share it. Many thanks
I don't think the problem is with tiding those menus. But the design is not too good. I would say it is rather cheap. Also it would be good to use a few languages for your site. For example, I know there are a lot of Russians that like to spend vacations in Bulgaria and I can't see Russian version as well as any other language-version. I would also advise to add more photos (interior and exterior) star info (2-5 stars like here http://www.komandirovka.ru/hotels/sofia/) discussion section where tourists could leave their feedbacks about hotels and Google maps.
Barre Tire, I want to link them together, because I'll get more traffic this way. People searching for a villa on google will probably be interested to browse hotels as well and opposite. I can't get the main site to qualify for both kwds (villa and hotel) so I managed to split the content to this two sites and optimize each one for villas or hotels respectively. T-34 - I went for the cheap looking design as to my oppinion, people don't like complicated to read websites. Esspecially ones with lots of content. I jusge to myself, because when I come accross a website with too many colours, different shapes, flashing texts and so on, my eyes just can't get it. The simple the better (my oppinion). I did not add other languages as I won't be able to translate that ammount of text on my own, neither will I be able to pay someone. And I'll focus on Bulgarian visitors mainly. I'm far from the idea someone from the UK or Russia for example will find me on google (simply as there is a lot of concurention in this branch). Finaly, I decided to put all "villas" content on one site and all "hotels" content on the other. Both will have hotals menu and villas menu and depending on which one you are will redirect you to the other one i.e. in case you want to see hotels in Sofia from the villas site. Will that put me in a trouble with Mr.Google? Or any other suggestions?