Happy Hotelier

Behind the screens I have been cleaning up Happy Hotelier….Well a bit: There remain more things to do.
CSS is great.
It took some time, but I found out where in the CSS Stylesheet I could change a bit ot two so that I don’t have to add manually “[strong] [/strong]” anymore when I simply want a […]

On 7th March Paul Johnson of A Luxury Travel Blog launched the L-List
Calling all luxury bloggers!
Inspired by the recent T-List that’s doing the rounds, I thought it’s about time we started an L-List. As you may have guessed, L-List stands for Luxury List, and it provides luxury bloggers a means of being discovered. You […]

After my previous post I found out that indeed Google Reader gives you a possibility to add a widget to your own Blog which I have now installed. At the same time I have removed the Google AdSense widget, because collecting cents from clicks is not my primary aim with this Blog. I just Blog […]

Splogs
Splogs is a contraction of Spam and Blogs. There are people who do not create their own content. They simply scrape the content from other Blogs to their own advantage. Usually their aim is to get some Google adword income.
Content scraping has a good side and a bad side:
Aggregating content in a Blog gives the […]

The T-list mania incurred my curiosity how the link counting at Technorati works.
I have seen my incoming links going up from 16 to 60, but yesterday - or today - Technorati seems to have changed its algorithm and I am down again to 23. It also seems that Technorati updates its link […]

A bit drowsy from a flight I stood in the luggage reclaim area of Schiphol looking sleepily at the transport band. When I awoke, I realized I had seen my bag circle three times the whole of the band.
Therefore thanks to Gadling for tipping on the clever Tags for Bags.
Next time I will make sure […]

Sometime somewhere in my newsreader I had seen a reference to her already, but today I stumbled again upon her Blog: Behind Open Doors, the personal Blog of another Hotelier, Yvonne Lembi-Detert, the owner of San Fransisco based Personality Hotels. Their site is also worthwhile to explore.
To see from the photo Yvonne is a real […]

I found an incoming link from E-Hotel Blog that a Latvian Hotelier started recently.
Ehotel is written by a hotelier from Latvia, Europe with more than 4 year experience in hospitality business and MBA.
Working in a hotel and studying I have understood that there are many things I still don`t know about hotels and there are […]

Is it because the Guardian or Sean Dodson didn´t think about launching a Best Travel Blog Award themselves? Their reasoning is even wrong, because at least one of the winners of the Travvies is a Dutchman´s Blog (Exposed Planet) and not a US based Blog. Anyway, they had to publish their own Guardian Alternative Travvies […]

The main wisdom is that the more links point to your website, the more traffic you generate and the better the (Blog)search engines can find you. So how to spread the word about your Bog?
Some examples of techniques to get the desired results are:

Comment, comment and comment; The advise is both inbound and outbound:

Give […]

Today the Winners of The 2007 Travvies were published:

A grand total of 2306 votes were cast. In some categories, the competition was truly fierce, with the winner separated from the runner-up by single digits.
The winners:

Best Photography on a Travel Blog: Exposed Planet.
Based in the Netherlands, Harry Kikstra, a self-described “climber / expedition leader / […]

Because almost all van den Elshouts living in The Hague are distant relatives, Bruno van den Elshout is likely to be one of my distant relatives. He is 30 years younger than I am - happy him - and he lives around the corner.
I had spotted his PhotoLogix Photo Blog already some time ago. Now […]