| Writing and submitting articles about your vacation | | | | Include your keywords in the title and throughout the |
| rental is the cheapest and most cost effective form of | | | | body of your vacation rental article for maximum |
| advertising a property owner can do to increase | | | | exposure and increase your organic search engine |
| traffic to his/her property listing. | | | | rankings. |
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| Article writing increases traffic to your listing as it is | | | | Talk about your vacation rental, area attractions, |
| picked up by several travel and vacation websites and | | | | restaurants, unique shops and shopping opportunities, |
| blogs through our RSS (really simple syndication) feed | | | | hidden treasures, what to see or what not to see, etc. |
| and creates quality back links to your property listing, | | | | and utilize keywords such as "Disney vacation rental" |
| which is important in increasing organic web traffic | | | | or near "Florida Keys scuba diving" or "Caribbean deep |
| (search engine optimization). | | | | sea fishing charters". |
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| Article writing is also very cost effective as you can | | | | Make your vacation rental article visually appealing and |
| write your own vacation rental articles for FREE or | | | | include 1 quality photo with your article. Your article |
| hire a freelance writer for just a few dollars an article. | | | | should be no larger than 400x400 pixels. |
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| You do not need to be an expert writer, just write at | | | | Ok, you have your FREE, well written, keyword |
| least 4 articles (seasonal) annually and they may be a | | | | optimized vacation rental article and quality photo, |
| long or short as you wish, but 400-600 words are | | | | where can you have your article published for FREE? |
| best. | | | | Our vacation blog, Your Travel Buddy Travel and |
| Â | | | | Vacations Blog accepts articles with photos. Submit |
| When you are writing your vacation rental promotion | | | | your articles to |
| articles, utilize "keywords" to increase your efforts with | | | | Â |
| the top search engines such as Google, Yahoo and | | | | You may also submit your article to several FREE |
| MSN. Keywords are search terms a property renter | | | | article directories, such as |
| may enter in to search engines when searching for a | | | | Â these are the article directories I use in addition |
| vacation rental, such as "Florida Keys vacation homes". | | | | to my own vacation blogs. These article directories will |
| Â | | | | not accept photos, but are effective just the same. |