Hey guys. My tourist activities business is in hibernation due to the Corona situation so I'm working on a side project that I've wanted to have a go at for a while. I'm aiming to create a worldwide authority site for our (relatively specific) niche, linking up the very best tours and experiences around the world. Whilst that sounds daunting I think there is some wiggle room due to the tourism giants like TripAdvisor and Get Your Guide being unspecific and having completely lost touch with providing value to either travel lovers or tour owners.
I'm currently looking at how to structure the site in terms of SEO before charging head first into content. Once I've done that I'm going to add on something like ten major tourist cities with solid content as a minimal viable product and test it out.
I would really hugely appreciate some advice with a couple of topics though:
Should the url structure work with destinations like this: mysite.com/london/ or mysite.com/destinations/london (using London as an example here)
likewise with experiences: mysite.com/pasta-workshops or mysite.com/experiences/pasta-workshops
Or does that simply depend on whether I want to have a general destination page and general experiences listing page, rather than letting people choose to go straight to a city or specific experience type from the home page? I'm not actually sure what would be best here.
I'd prefer to use the shorter structures and skip the intermediary pages but from reading into this Google bots apparently like a super organised structure to follow.
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Then looking at Keyword research, what would you guys recommend as the best research tool? I've had some basic experience with adwords and keyword planner (which are great, thanks especially to @Andy Black for all the awesome adwords posts) but I think keyword planner is more of a starting point for SEO keyword research? I've seen SEMrush and Mangools getting talked up. I really like the option in SEMrush's tools to search for question related keywords but their traffic estimates seemed a bit off when I compared against our existing Adwords campaigns.
Cheers!
I'm currently looking at how to structure the site in terms of SEO before charging head first into content. Once I've done that I'm going to add on something like ten major tourist cities with solid content as a minimal viable product and test it out.
I would really hugely appreciate some advice with a couple of topics though:
- Site Structure
- Keyword research
Should the url structure work with destinations like this: mysite.com/london/ or mysite.com/destinations/london (using London as an example here)
likewise with experiences: mysite.com/pasta-workshops or mysite.com/experiences/pasta-workshops
Or does that simply depend on whether I want to have a general destination page and general experiences listing page, rather than letting people choose to go straight to a city or specific experience type from the home page? I'm not actually sure what would be best here.
I'd prefer to use the shorter structures and skip the intermediary pages but from reading into this Google bots apparently like a super organised structure to follow.
..
Then looking at Keyword research, what would you guys recommend as the best research tool? I've had some basic experience with adwords and keyword planner (which are great, thanks especially to @Andy Black for all the awesome adwords posts) but I think keyword planner is more of a starting point for SEO keyword research? I've seen SEMrush and Mangools getting talked up. I really like the option in SEMrush's tools to search for question related keywords but their traffic estimates seemed a bit off when I compared against our existing Adwords campaigns.
Cheers!
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