Wanted: Website Review My latest effort - tenerifeholidays.co.uk

[mally]

As you said, you've got the template created now and you would be able to replicate it onto other destinations if it works quite easily..

I've got this travel domain Reservation which is very generic and not specific to a particular location or particular travel theme. I like your site alot, very well done!

 

[crazihos]

Cheers Mally,

Lots of work and planning went into getting it so that it will in theory works across numerous sites. Obviously the bulk of content and linkbuilding is going to be the problem with setting up multiple sites but that the idea is to build and repeat.

I like your domain and design a lot btw, generic but very nice

 

[Frog]

but the domain wasnt cheap and I guess that would be a seo cost).

I'm a massive fan of that approach, because if you can afford the great domain up front, its a huge help on the seo front. Good domain & good design = instant credibility. Right now your site looks like a travel agent, rather than an affiliate. Put that same good design on a .info (or a crap design on your good domain) and you just look like a garbage affiliate site and people hit the back button.

Plus, if you buy a domain for xxxx or xx,xxx in year 1, it only costs you £7 in year 2. Over the life of a site, the cost of a great domain is extremely low - often the only problem is actually being able to afford it up front

Well I guess the main tip I can offer is to plan so that you know exactly what you want and then outsource to quality people without trying to cut too many corners on cost. I'm a tech phobe so very little of it is my own work./QUOTE]

Thats what we try and do with most projects, I'm neither a designer or a coder and at this point I won't ever be. Its relatively easy to hire good people in both for not too much $. I think as long as you can plan out projects from start to finish, and have the funds to finance them, thats far more important than being able to do each individual part personally. I'd love to be able to do my own php, but right now it would be pointless to try and learn, there are significantly more profitable ways to spend my time. If I need something coded, I need it doing properly and would rather pay $10/hr and outsource.

Cost wise I'll split that design and development outlay over at least 3 domains so my cost per site will be much lower overall.

Another great approach Changing the logo and the large top image is a 1 hour job at most, and the new site is going to look great. Plus if you get a bunch of similar domains you can also further reduce seo costs by interlinking them.

 

[boxfish]

I love the site, nice work. There is a problem though.

I am using Chrome on W7 and the 'Get Started Here' box at the top right only has the form on the hompage. On every other page it only has the holidays, flights, hotels images, nothing else.