Catalina Island Vacation Rentals-Travel Website

Catalina Island Vacation Rentals offers private homes, villas, and condos for rent on beautiful Catalina Island, in Avalon, CA. Operated by Kevin and Angela Strege, Catalina currently manages around 170 privately owned residences on the island.

How has this travel website gained Market Share

• Catalina Island Vacation Rentals’ website ranks No. 1 for many terms in Google, Yahoo, and MSN searches. Terms include “Catalina Island Vacation Rentals”, “Catalina Island Condo Rentals”, “Catalina Island Rentals”, and “Avalon CA Rentals”.
• During the first full year tracking was enabled on the site, there were 141,882 visitors. That’s an average of over 11,000 visitors a month, and two months of the year saw more than 17,000 visitors.
• Catalina Island Vacation Rentals’ website continues to enjoy a very low homepage bounce rate. In 2006, the homepage bounce rate average was 19% and the top 10 pages was 25%.
• Typically around 30% to 35% of the traffic coming to the website is from Google.
• Each month, about 70% to 75% of the site’s traffic is first time visitors.

Catalina Island Vacation Rentals has been a Comprehensive Online Marketing client for over two years. The services received for their account include, but are not limited to:

• A new website design was implemented and published in October 2005. The design included a specially built database that offers a photo slide show for their more than 100 properties the client was managing at the time.
• When the site was published, Search Engine Optimization was implemented with a focus on targeting competitive keyword phrases with well-written metatags and on-page content. This optimization was recently updated to include more current search phrases utilized for the Catalina Island market.
• The client maintains a database of around 10,000 subscribers with our e-mail marketing newsletter services. Newsletters are sent about once a month to include upcoming events, a featured property, real estate offerings, and other information about Catalina.
• Finding and submitting Catalina Island Vacation Rentals to vacation rental directories is an ongoing service. Maintaining their presence in these directories and reviewing traffic received is vital to their online success.
• Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Vamoose pay-per-click advertising is running daily to drive traffic to the website and reach new potential guests.
• ROI Tracker services are included to track ppc, directory, e-mail marketing and other campaigns to help drive traffic to the website. Decisions for upcoming marketing efforts are based on these statistics.
• This past spring, press release work was completed to help get the word out that Catalina Island Vacation Rentals had acquired Beach Realty and their 70 properties.

What’s next?

• Continued work with directories and link building to strengthen online presence and search engine performance.
• Looking to build out activities pages on the site to offer more information to potential guests and hopefully become an authority on Catalina Island.
• Adding some bells and whistles to the site like a webcam offering a live view of the Catalina Harbor.

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