To increase your chances of being listed on Travel Notes, it helps
if you submit the right form.
Choosing the right submission form is the first step in getting a
possible listing on Travel Notes.
There's also a contact form for General
Feedback and adding travel content to Travel Notes™ - The Online Guide to Travel.
There are no robots at Travel Notes, so a human actually takes the
time to look at all website submissions.
And it does take time.
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While general travel listings are free, it is appreciated if you link to Travel Notes.
Because the listings are free we do get a lot of submissions and can
not say how long it will take before we get to review your website.
Sites linking back to Travel Notes are looked on favourably, but at
the end of the day it's still the quality of the website (and website submission) that
counts.
Offering travel tips and discounts to Travel Notes members may also
help your submission.
Priority Website Reviews
For a
one-time donation of $100 we will try to review your website within ten days. Your
listing will be enhanced with a thumbnail image of your website, so make sure your
homepage looks smart.
Website reviews may include an e-Business card; listing all your major
Social Media channels. We may also include a few deep links at our discretion.
The last eight priority websites reviewed also earn free skyscraper ad exposure around the Travel Notes
Internet property.
Commercial Website Donation
Commercial sites (accomodations, tours and travel services) are
encouraged to make a donation
of $40 for processing within 28 days.
Beat The Backlog
General travel sites can also get their website looked at quicker with
a
small donation of $25.
This does not guarantee that your site will be listed, but it does
mean that your submission jumps the queue and (if not listed) you'll get an e-mail reply
telling you why.
Title, Description and Keywords
Please keep your suggested title short and snappy; your
description brief and meaningful; and your keywords (tags) to a maximum of five.
A lot of people fail to provide us with a description, or adequate
details where asked.
A list of repeated keywords in the description field, that makes no
sense at all, will only help your submission get rejected.
Personal Homepages
While some personal pages are better presented than a few of the
'official' websites we've seen, they're often let down by where they're hosted.
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 more serious about your web
presence, so forget about redirecting it to a free web host. They may do your reputation
more harm than good.
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 may want to ask questions or make comments on the things they don't like or
understand.
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.
Hyperlinks are a way of bringing related documents together and we do
appreciate it when you link to Travel Notes.
Having said that, five to twenty long pages of totally unrelated links
will not be helping your visitors at all. All the useless 'link-trading' doesn't really
help your search ranking either, no matter what the link spammers try to tell you.
We know who some of these people are and if we see their links on your
site, the chances are that you won't be listed on Travel Notes.
Thank-you for reading the submission guidelines.
Just a Reminder
We won't reply to e-mails asking why a website wasn't listed unless
you've made a small donation or paid for a website review.
Donations made through Pay Pal are just that, donations to speed up
the review process; not a payment for listing.
If you don't get listed, you could try advertising
on Travel Notes.
General Travel
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.
Accommodation Listings
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.
Safaris and Tours
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.
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.
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