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Hello, I have created my own webpages because I have no budget for advertising.  If anyone can give me some suggestions on getting my webpage out their on the search engines, I would be greatly appreciated.  I am a Fish Camp - Campground that offers Cabin Rentals, RV Sites, Tent Sites & Permanent RV sites for Live-Ins or a discounted Yearly Rate.  I also am the only Fish Camp with Cured Wild Shiners we catch ourselves and we also catch grass shrimp ourselves.  We sell these items in our bait shop along with crickets, worms and minnows.  I am about to go out of business if I can`t get customers here.  I have no one in my cabins and no RVs right now in April.  No reservations either until January for a cabin.  Thank you for any suggestions of things I can change or put in my html to instruct search engines to find me better.  Thank you. Leola in Florida on Lake Istokpoga

Yes I am sorry, I did what I so did not want to do, forgot my webpage.  www.geocities.com/offhwy621 I am so sorry.

I`ve kayaked in that area - it is beautiful - bald eagles, deer, hogs, gators and such.  Have you tried contacting - maybe sponsoring an event for:

• Kayak clubs and shops in Florida - including kayak fishing clubs - most of them love camping.
• Scouts -
• Maybe a co-sponsored event with one of those team-building retreat groups/companies.

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Ed
Business Optimization - www.businessoptimization.biz

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There is practically nothing as far as SEO; unique titles, descriptions, image alt tags, or anything onsite to help search engines take notice of you. Have you tried camping directories to list your site in?

The site itself doesn`t sell me on anything. The images are too small to be effective. The only real information you give is your rates, so the only message I get from you is how much money you want from me to stay there. Sell me on your services, attractions, location, activities, etc. Make what you offer me your primary focus and content, not how much you are going to charge me



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M Hall
Website Critique Community
International Society of Curmudgeons

There are tons of places to get your site listed.  But it doesn`t happen overnight.

The first and easiest thing to do is every person that checks in get their email list. What better place to market you business than to send a coupon or just hey thanks for staying with us email to someone who is already a customer.

Greetings from WebMissy in Sunny Naples Florida!

"Thanks Roland, yea, geocities is hard to get out their, I did just set up a new one yesterday www.fish.netne.net and we`ll see how that goes.  I have no budget for advertising so all I can do is free weblistings.  I know the saying you have to spend money to make money, but their just isn`t even a penny that can be spent at this time."

But you *still* don`t have a domain and you will not be well served by search engines.  You can register a domain name for your business for less than ten$ at many registrars.  (Personally, I use GoDaddy.com for all of mine.)  Web hosting is available for $6 or less per month.  A couple of cups of coffee or a carton of smokes if this incentivises you to quit.


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Steve Mann
Internet Videographer
MannMade Digital Video
My Email

Thanks WebMissy, will do that when I check them in.  Yea, I am planning on putting out a coupon on marketplace so that would have been good, I could have sent my customers that coupon to get them back.  I did take the advice and cleared out my prices and made my pictures bigger, take another look if you would like.

I will check out godaddy.com it is just hard to think of a domain name that I can use and tell people.  Don`t smoke and make my own coffee but I see what you are getting at.  I will seriously check them out.  Thanks again everyone has really helped me.  I did get a drive-in RV yesterday and they stayed 1 night with a dog.  Thanks again everyone. Leola

As a dog owner the dog friendly part is definitely something you should be promoting. Just by googling dog friendly campground I found a place for you to list your site http://www.dogfriendly.com/server/general/forms/rvform.shtml
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http://www.petswelcome.com/milkbone/watchdogframe.html

I am sure if you took some time and looked around on google there would have to be more pet friendly web site places to list your site for free. You can try directories such as city directories etc for more free web site listings. But before you do that you need to decide on a domain and stick with it.Trying to find a domain name that is what you are is important. .com is usually better than a .net etc.  Try to think what you are about, how about something like Florida-Campground.com
While I usually don`t like ones with a - that one is easy to remember and gets across your point
I`m sure some of the others out their have ideas for domains.

Best of Luck
Missy