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DMO “X” on WordPress

June 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Destination Marketing

OK, I’m kinda sorta excited in a ho-hum “land n’ leave” sort of way. Looks like my pals at the XXXXXXXX have decided to take off their Blogger/Blogspot training-wheels and get on a machine with real CMS power. Excellent move, but….

  • Why announce if you’re not ready? The default Meta and Blogroll items on the sidebar? Gone.
  • The About page. Gads, just delete it or hide it. Deleted.

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

  • Something about that “Search” bar continues to scream Splog!
  • Pretty Permalinks please.
  • 2.3.3 lacks tagging.
  • Question: Who’s doing this? In-house? Agency? The photographer guy?
  • Somebody probably told them that they were overloading the meta tags before, now there are none.
  • Whoever cares about SEO should call me.

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Bow Down to the New King of Travel – Google

May 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Destination Marketing

Power users have always used Google for everything, including travel. Today the vast majority of all travelers are using the internet for every phase of their consumptive cycle and it is no surprise that Google’s market share continues to rise.

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Google Layermania is Vertical Search

May 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Destination Marketing

Some days back I was searching Google Maps and noticed the “Explore this Area” link. I guess I was too busy or something to fully digest the implications of this. Then, I notice the “More” layer appear next to “Map”. Photos from Panoramio?

Panaramio on Google Maps

Then on Tuesday, my favorite Google Map gossip site announced the arrival of Wikipedia entries. Now they got my attention BIG TIME. Watch out Mapquest, Google is about to knock you off the top spot.

I mentioned this to Dave P. from Google yesterday, but it kind of seemed like news to him as well. Question: What is Google doing with the layers? What layers are coming next?

I just answered one of my own burning questions. And the answer is Yes. Google is entering into vertical search across their platforms and more. Holy Crap!

While we were blabbing, the Real Estate layer was added. And News is coming next week.

Explore by location. Map layers by category. Geotagged webpages, video, images, blogs, hotels, attractions.

Will this eliminate the need for user created maps? Or will the human filter again rise to the top?

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