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Island Club Villa Rentals
This project was for the family for a friend of mine who has a few rental locations in Put-in-Bay. They already had a website, but it was not very professional looking and did not help to bring them any online business. Their old domain name was a “.info” which would get mistakenly typed as “.com” many times which took his customers to a competitor’s site.
I helped to organize the content that he currently had and integrate it into a WordPress installation for ease of maintenance by not so “tech-savy” users. I modified the original theme by adding a jQuery image preview of all of their properties as part of the site’s header. I also integrated the properties to be dynamically pulled together on the properties page and made use of post meta-data to determine what extra amenities each property had.
I used embedded Google map information for allowing site visitor’s to quickly map directions to Put-in-Bay from any source.
Finally, we decided on a new domain name to use to avoid confusion and settled on islandclubvillarentals.com (we also have islandclubvilla.com). I then setup his pages to use SEO keywords and descriptions, setup his sitemap.xml and robots.txt file, hooked his site into Google Analytics for stat tracking, and even setup a quick Google AdWords campaign to help get him on his feet with web traffic.
Technologies: Google maps, jQuery, PHP, SEO, WordPress
