Looking at booking via Camping in Brittany at the moment,,
Sometimes I see things that I just don’t understand, and this is one of them. Quite a few months ago I pitched to Eurocamp about doing SEO for them, I didn’t get the contract, yer can’t win them all but it did make me change the way I do pitches. Becky told me not to give away too much info away at the presentation stage like I always do. Funnily enough I did my normal and told them all the things I would do and when they told me they where creating an in-house affiliate program I thought winner and told them how to use 301 redirects to pass juice, I really went into great detail, lol
So when I was booking conference dates and family holidays last week because every year we normally take the kids to Centreparcs for a week and Spain for a week, but I thought about taking the family camping in Dordogne or somewhere like that. Having 2 boys a camping holiday in Dordogne sounded better than camping in the lake district in the rain… lol and they want to go camping!
So when I did this search guess how much I nearly pee’d my pants. it almost made me want to sign up to be an affiliate. I kinda want to bring up the subject of Google not wanting you to rewrite url’s because they know best ;), but I have a radioshow tonight and time is tight.
DaveN
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12th January 2009 @ 19:02
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C’mon Dave, buy a new keyboard that has a working period key. That first “sentence” could have used at least 5 or 6 of them.
12th January 2009 @ 19:05
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I guess that is what you get when you don’t do some URL cleaning on your affiliate links.
That affiliate must be very very happy tho.
12th January 2009 @ 19:09
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So if I’m reading correctly, they ignored all of the priceless advice that you freely gave them?
12th January 2009 @ 19:10
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A long time ago when I did a lot of affiliate marketing, I did very well by having the magic affiliate ID high up in the rankings (ahead of other affiliates or even the “home site”).
12th January 2009 @ 19:16
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Not the only search term either
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=eurocamp+dordogne&pws=0&gl=UK
I have fond memories from Eurocamp trips 25-30 years ago, so don’t let this stop you taking the kids.
12th January 2009 @ 19:45
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Wow, something/body certainly got your back up!
I just noticed this blog when searching for Eurocamp. how did you manage to get so high up so quickly on such a high profile keyword?
Can i give you a call tomorrow, I’m looking for a good SEO for a site that I am working on
14th January 2009 @ 19:22
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@graham show your metal… friday i have a open table ?
15th January 2009 @ 00:15
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I can not believe Eurocamp did not take you on for there SEO. O well I guess they will be gutted when you come up at number 2 or even better number one! Already number 9 for eurocamp
21st January 2009 @ 13:10
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http://tinyurl.com/9s7f2b l one reason why google shouldn’t be allowed to select dynamic urls and why you should always control your site
12th January 2009 @ 18:59
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read @davenaylors post … no really read till you understand http://tinyurl.com/9s7f2b
12th January 2009 @ 19:02
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RT @graywolf read @davenaylors post … no really read till you understand http://tinyurl.com/9s7f2b - nice.
12th January 2009 @ 19:08
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@ryanblock http://tinyurl.com/9s7f2b works wonderfully for me. Maybe you have some crazy strange setting checked?
17th January 2009 @ 18:37
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