BnBSeo began as an acronym for Bed and Breakfast Search Engine Optimization. Originally we focused on alternative lodging businesses, though we soon began working with a wide variety of other small enterprises as well.
The owner, Anam Kinsey, first made websites in 1999. The following 8 years was spent managing bnbs and their websites before moving on to create BnBSeo in 2007. We still do some of our work for alternative lodgings including BnBs, though our attention is mostly on other small businesses which will certainly see a huge increase from our applied marketing strategies.
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As an SEO Specialist, I have seen many great businesses, that struggle desperately to get by. Then quickly, with just a little SEO, they become visible and in the rankings. Owning and managing a guest house should not be about who is the biggest shark in the waters. It really should be about which business generates the happiest customers!
We began when SEO seemed little more than typing your choice of keywords in the meta tags of website pages. That tag really did work, even stuffing worked! I can't say that Google (or AOL back then) was able to deliver the answer to your question all that often though.
The beginnings of my website career began in 1999 while working for a fledgling NGO in Nepal, the Bamboo's Secret. It was imperative to have some way to present the project and what it did. The new technology seemed the perfect answer. Well, it was not as easy as it looked even back then. The project no longer exists in any real sense, though I hear that the bamboo nursery is still harvested for shoots and new starts. Their website still graces the internet though it really ought to be taken down.
My first commercial website was www.budhabazaar.com and suffered badly right from the start. While I was convinced that Budha Bazaar was cool, what was not cool was the number of ways there are to spell both of these words. Back in 2001, the words in the url had to perfectly match the searched keywords, and I had no clue how to make a website rank. The site has faded into history now.
In 2004 I began working on a company website for a B&B on Maui called the Banyan Tree House. That website, www.banyantreehouse.com now forwards to Banyan Retreat on MauiThe new owner seems to have stopped putting attention into it.
In 2005 I began a small business called "Maui Web Doctor" which did well for several years until I moved from Maui to Reno, Nevada. BnBSeo came about in 2007 as a business focused only on SEO for BnBs. The website for this business has undergone several reincarnations under different platforms. Currently the website was all hand coded; as in "". This has proven highly beneficial as I now am quite able to find and repair coding issues which have become increasingly frequent as fewer people understand the code they are working with when creating websites.
A long term client The Doctor's Medical Library also arrived in 2007. We did not build this website which ran on the Joomla platform. It was my first foray into dynamic websites. Google was having difficulty understanding php code and the dynamic webpage relationship to web surfer reality. Dynamic was creating dozens of duplicates of the same page which was viewed and then discarded. But we struggled on in this format for years, the website overcoming the php penalty for years while Google figured out how to squeeze their data for a realistic interpretation of the primary (of up to a dozen generated pages) webpage. The site was up until recently. Now there is just a contact page. We no longer manage the website.
After moving to Reno, Nevada in 2009 the World Wide Web Doctor was created to handle the number of small business clients which we were now managing. To this day we are just a single company with two faces, the World Wide Web Doctor caters to non-lodging businesses while BnBSeo is mostly focused on that industry.
Another website which operates today is the Maui BnB Guide. As the name implies it is a Guide of all of the legal and registered B&Bs on the island.
Carson Valley Transmission in Gardenerville Nevada was a client until recently.
While not spectacular, we created and manage a simple website for the Knights of Columbus Charity also in Gardenerville.
BnBSeo believes in a smoothly running internet; happy customers easily finding what they are searching for; and web pages with clear messages describing them. Deception and subterfuge really have no place in this expanding world of easy information across the web.
Google also apparently holds this as one of their main goals in the search results they present. They employ a wide variety of factors to detect which business, and their website, actually does produce the longest visiting, repeat customers. We also believe that this claim. If you focus on the project of making happy, repeat clients to you company, then we will attend to your online marketing. Between the three of us, Google, you and BnBSeo, we should create an enduring flow of happy guests.
It would be nice if you could run the rentals while someone else manged the online face of your business. A business owner should not have to be an SEO specialist.
