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Frequently Asked Questions |
| Bookings bandbBritain.com is accessed by hundreds of B&B tourists
interested in making reservations at bed and breakfasts every day!
Marketing
In addition to being featured on
bandbBritain.com we promote members on top Internet travel sites including:
Google, Yahoo, AOL, Looksmart and MSN.
Service and support
BBProfiler help members update their site
24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition, each new membership
comes with 30 days of free phone, email, and fax support and two free
support phone calls, emails, and faxes anytime each year thereafter. |
| Becoming a member is simple, and only
takes a few minutes of your time to have yourself up and listed with us.
Becoming a member is for Bed and Breakfast owners. Tourists need not
be members to search our database.
For information on registering as a member,
please visit the Join us section. |
How do I change my profile details?
| Changing your profile details couldn't be
easier. With our BBProfiler tool, you simply log-in using your Member ID and password
and change any details you wish. You can upload photos, add captions
to the photos and make changes to any of your details.
To read all about BBProfiler,
click here |
| bandbBritain.com has all of the proper
keywords and 'tags' embedded in our web pages to allow us maximum exposure
to as many search engines as possible. But, how a search engine will
index us is really up to them. You, as an individual page, may or may
not show up on a search index. This is what you use us for!
Companies such as Google have indexed
every single one of our pages. If you search for your Bed and
Breakfast name exactly as it appears on our page, you will find you B&B in
the search results highlighted under bandbBritain.com. That is one of
the many benefits of bandbBritain.com There are companies that specialize
in getting you search engine superiority. They charge hundreds of pounds.
bandbBritain.com tries to index our main site with all of the city/town
keywords in the UK. If you check the source of each page, you'll see
embedded words and tags to do this.
There are many Websites on the Internet which explain how to code these
embedded words and tags. It would take hours for me to email you on
this. Luckily, there are companies like
ineedhits.com who can do this job for you in only a few hours and for a
low price.
Our team also spends a great deal of time promoting this site by hand.
Submitting our name to search engines, joining networks to promote the site.
All this benefits you, and drives traffic to this site and your page. |
What is BBProfiler and how do I
use it?
| BBProfiler is bandbBritain.com's easy data update tool.
This is a technology that allows members of this site to easily update their
Bed and Breakfast profile page anytime they want.
To read all about BBProfiler,
click here |
How will people find me on your site?
| bandbBritain.com has a multitude of search options from Country,
Region, City, B&B name to any keyword. Members receive added exposure
by participating in our Feature B&B of the week. This gives you
exposure on our homepage for 1 week. All of these added benefits are
included in your membership with bandbBritain.com at no additional cost
except for the Feature B&B of the week service |
How do I know your site is working for me?
| Members can simply view their profile page
and scroll the bottom of the profile. The footer contains information
on the number of visitors to your page. This number is increased ever
time someone views your profile. Members may also view traffic by day,
month and year to bandbBritain.com to ensure there is traffic coming to
bandbBritain.com. Click on the blue sphere at the bottom of our home
page. All this will ensure you are receiving value from membership
with bndbBritain.com membership. |
| Photo uploads can be performed from our
BBProfiler
tool. Directions for uploading the photos can be found on the
Photo upload page. Simply log-in to BBProfiler and click the
"Upload Photos" from you profile page. Alternatively, you can request us to review an existing website you
currently have and we will get the photos from your other site and upload
them for you. Also, you can send us an email with your photos attached
to info@bandbBritain.com. |
| We prefer the following formats: TIF,
JPG, GIF or in a ZIP archive. We will resize
your images as required, but we do NOT photo-edit any images. Please do not
ask us to modify your images in any way other than to resize them.
Pictures can be e-mailed to info@bandbBritain.com.
Be sure to include your B&B name and/or your member number so that your
pictures do not get orphaned.
Pictures can be updated or loaded via
BBProfiler. The directions are
there and work well when followed completely.
If you have pictures on another website, you can
e-mail us the URL (your website address) with instructions to the e-mail
address above. |
| Photo uploads will not appear unless the
photos have been renamed according to your Member ID. THIS MUST BE
EXACT! For example, if you are Member 120, then your photos
must be renamed on your PC first to 120a.jpg, 120b.jpg,
120c.jpg and 120d.jpg. A full explanation of the photo
upload process can be found by logging into BBProfile and following the
"Upload Photos" link. |
| To be fair to all our members, we do not
list our search results from A-Z. This would be unfair to those lower in the
alphabet. Instead, we sort the search results by region/county from A-Z for
a two week period, then Z-A the next two week period. Within the
region/county grouping, we then alternate and A-Z and Z-A sort by B&B name.
Therefore, your B&B name will not always appear in the same place based on
the search performed. This gives everyone an equal chance at being near the
top of the list. |
| In a perfect world, we
could accommodate any request. Unfortunately, though, we cannot
accommodate special changes to your web page outside of what our
BBProfiler tool allows.
The reason is very simple: our members' web pages are generated
dynamically. That means that your page is created on-the-fly by our database
as someone goes to view it. We have standard templates that display our
member web pages.
This powerful dynamic template is one of the main reasons why our format
is so powerful, why we are gaining industry recognition, and why we can
offer you a free trial listing. We do not hand generate our pages.
This dynamic method provides you with the ability to modify your listing
yourself with changes appearing online immediately. Our BBProfiler software
takes your changes, updates our database, and then that information is
grabbed by our template the next time someone goes to view your page. Cool! |
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