This post is somewhat informative as well as asking for input of what has worked for you. Each year at Waikoloa Vacation Rentals we try to support 2-3 nonprofits on the Big Island of Hawaii where we are. Most nonprofits we support we simply support by donating money so that is relatively simple
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11/08/2024
We have been using YouTube as a platform to host many of the videos for our website for a few years. While we have been able to get some views directly from YouTube, we do not get as many as we would like.Interestingly enough, YouTube has promoted several of our videos and they have gotten subst
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04/02/2024
When ChatGPT first came out I was hesitant to use it, but as more and more people began to use it I wanted to try it out. Overall if I told it to give me a 500 word article on almost any of the properties we managed it came back about 90% correct. For some of the properties it would get it conf
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09/12/2023
Between 2005 and 2010 microsites were a must for search engine optimization. A microsite is as it sounds, a smaller site specific to one of your keywords. For example, I do vacation rentals on the Big Island of Hawaii. I could have my main site to optimize for broader keywords and then have mi
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06/24/2023
I recently starting using ChatGPT to see what it was all about. At this point it seems to offer a little more insight than Siri, but can offer a lot of information. Here is what it had to say to describe the area where we manage condos. Does it properly describe your location and business?Kole
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06/01/2023
I have been doing the SEO for our vacation rental company for the past 20 years and the complexity of it has grown enormously to the point that I am not sure where it is headed.On Site Keywords and Meta DataSEO seemed to really start out pretty simple. What your website was about, what your doma
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05/26/2023
Recently Google did an update to their ads. This has caused two primary things in searches in our market. First, the number of ads that are showing up for any given search term has increased drastically causing the organic searches to drop almost halfway down the first page.Second, while the nu
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05/18/2023
With the increase of technology there are endless choices of smart thermostats out there. With the intent of saving on electric costs vacation rental owners as well as hotels have installed a variety of different thermostat types. They range from thermostats that can be adjusted remotely to the
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12/18/2022
During the pre-pandemic era, Disney World was the top vacation spot, with millions of visitors every year. However, many changes have transpired due to COVID-19. In March of 2020, the famous Disney World shut its gates to visitors and later reopened in July of the same year. Disney World reported
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06/07/2022
On the Big Island of Hawaii Ainamalu was the first development to promote Tesla products to all their homeowners. Just about all the people that purchased added solar panels as well as batteries in the garages. Within the first six months of installation close to 50% of the homeowners reported
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04/29/2022