Which Review Platform Should Safari and Tour Operators Focus On?
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- 31/01/2023
Before jumping into the topic, let’s first clarify what link-building is!
It’s one of the most important aspects of organically optimizing your website. In this process, we get links from relevant businesses to our website.
Each link you get is like a point of authenticity which makes your website rank higher on the search engine result page, in turn making your safari business more popular.
Now, you have prepared a link-building strategy for your safari and tour business, but it doesn’t seem to be working the way you expected it.
Well, there could be a bunch of reasons for this – join us as we uncover a few setbacks of your link-building strategy.
Low-Quality Links – In earlier days people used to focus on how many links they can produce rather than the quality of the links. But the scenario to rank higher has changed – even if you built a lot of links, if they are not effective enough, they would not impact your ranking in any way. By effective linking we mean, your safari website should not get links from low-quality or unrelated sources. Only aim for those websites that target your safari customers or provide value.
Lack of Relevance – Your links need to be relevant to what your safari audience might be looking for. If you are trying to be ranked or found by customers who are likely to convert, then you need to build links from highly qualitative websites. How you can improve at this is by producing link-worthy content that solves your target customer’s problems and is in line with your African Safari Business.
Over-optimized Anchor Text – An anchor text is typically the text that appears on a clickable hyperlink. The best practice to use is to exactly match them with your keyword. But doing it for every link or doing it excessively could be considered spam for search engines and triggers a penalty. So you must always focus on using a natural mix of anchor texts that include both branded and generic terms. Include variations of keywords that address a broader range of search phrases so you attract more traffic to your website.
Expecting Fast Progress – You might think that acquiring links from relevant websites would immediately impact your tour website’s visibility and ranking. But that is not true most of the time. Search engines take time to visit your website and the website you are getting links from; it may take weeks or a few months even to review these links – then after it will reflect your rankings. Consistency and patience are key to a successful link-building strategy.
Ignoring Link Diversity – Link diversity is the strategy to obtain links from different kinds of sources so the linking profile to your safari website looks natural. This will help search engines gain more trust by building a strong and varied link profile. Some of the sources you can include are social media links, guest posts, directory listings, articles, and news links.
Poor Outreach Strategy – Your scope of building a great linking strategy highly depends on your outreach skills. First, you need to reach out to these prospects and let them know about what kind of safari business you are and what services you deal with. You can reach relevant websites, influencers, and bloggers for getting the right backlinks. Which can be done by emailing, tweeting or even leaving a comment on their blog.
Some of the outreach tips include:
There can be a whole lot of reasons why your link-building strategy is not giving the expected results. The most focused ones can be emphasizing more on the numbers than the quality of links, not reaching out to relevant sources from a diverse range of channels, and not distributing your links through your website with correct placements.
Another significant reason could be not producing content that adds value to your targeted audience. In the end, patience and consistency is the key to a successful link-building strategy.
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