Placesonlinecom`s sharp rise in hits

Released on: July 12, 2008, 3:39 am

Press Release Author: Davide Bellalba

Industry: Internet & Online

Press Release Summary: Paesionline, the leading online tourist information service
well known both in Italy and abroad, has recently invested a significant amount of
resources in creating an international portal aimed at becoming the benchmark for
all international and specifically English speaking travellers.

Press Release Body: Thanks to the positive experience of Paesionline.com, it emerged
how the use of an English denomination would have made the site more visible from
abroad and better position it in the infinite range of offers available online.
Hence the change from PaesiOnline.com to PlacesOnline.com, a one stop tourist portal
dealing not only with Italy but also with major tourist destinations worldwide, with
special emphasis on the United States, the UK and India.
As well as guides, this site offers a wide range of information on attractions,
museums and the most important monuments of each city. A range of photos, the
weather and a selection of extra information and tips are also featured. These are
written first hand by visitors to these locations who belong to the online
community. Furthermore, the writer service offers to all web users the opportunity
to describe their holidays, further enhancing the exchange of information among
those who love travelling.
In the last few weeks a record number of hits have been registered at
Placesonline.com. This has been possible thanks to precise online marketing
strategies: SEO and SEM.
The SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy has allowed us to improve our ranking
in search engine results, enabling us to reach our target users at the very time
when an information or emotional need is born. Among other things, this assures the
mid to long term web visibility of site contents and of the popularity link and aims
at optimising the contents of the latter.
The SEM (Search Engine Marketing) strategy has been aimed at generating qualified
traffic to Placesonline.com from search engines. To this more general cpc campaigns
on other sites are added...
Placesonline is part of a number of important and prestigious partnerships such as
the ones with Venere and Volagratis and is developing other important join ventures
aimed at constantly improving and enriching its offer for tourists.
Our portal is also a promotion medium for all tourist accommodation businesses
wishing to increase their visibility abroad. This is the aim of the Your Smart
Activity service (see http://www.placesonline.com/add_accommodation.asp). Thanks to
a simple administration dashboard, it allows the creation of a page packed with
images and information regarding the accommodation featured inside the travel guide
of the location where the venue is situated. A new service offers visibility to tour
operators, car rental companies and businesses providing specific itineraries in the
area (e.g. wine tours). Here too, web pages are linked to the destination venue
(see http://www.placesonline.com/writers/home_company.asp).
The goals Paesionline wishes to reach in the immediate future are not only related
to quantity, though we see the importance in a numerical increase of our users. We
feel it is also important to aim for the quality of our contents and services in
order to help the portal become a benchmark in the world of travel guides, so as to
increase the importance of our product on foreign markets, especially in the US, the
UK and India.
Another crucial objective is that of developing an ever more diverse and interactive
community which is to become and important arena for dialogue and exchange for
anyone who through the web wishes to share their travel experiences - naturally in
the context of the 2.0. Web. Our desire is to offer users and businesses wishing to
promote their services on PlacesOnLine.com a wide range of opportunities.


Web Site: http://www.placesonline.com

Contact Details: Placesonline Italy
via san francesco
00040 Rocca di Papa (Rome)
+39 6 9495770

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