I have been working on SEO for our Destin Condo Rental at Pelican Beach Resort website for a few years, and I did well. You will find a lot of articles on web about optimizing your web page, let me summarize the main bullets before giving some additional advice:
The obvious
Build SEO friendly pages, and customize your addresses to include keywords to your goalCreate a blog and try to keep it rich with new articlesYour pages should have decent amount of text, and more pages you have, better it is. Images are important for human, but text is more important for search engines. Therefore, make sure you add captions to your imagesYou should use your keywords in Meta Title of the page, and also in the content of the page with 'Title' fontsYou must have backlinks from reputable pages. It is told that only 'follow' type links count, however I think even 'nofollow' links show how frequent your web site is talked aboutYou must also link your pages together preferably 1-2 times from each pageAlso it is good idea to link to reputable sitesUse social media like Facebook, Yelp and Google+ to create posts linking to your blog or page. Subscribe to Facebook groups or add posts to Google+ communities about your Business. Add your business to Google Business and ask your guests to review it
And here are the bonus items from me
Use http://moz.com trial to see what issues you have on your site (trial is for 30 days). Also use https://moz.com/link-explorer/ to find backlinks. Identify a competitor and analyze who gives links to their site
Use https://monitorbacklinks.com trial for 30 days again to see backlink quality, and your competitor's links. Check the ratings of those domains as well as their spam score. The better rating, lower score, the better the web page is
Study competitor links, go to those sites and find out how you can put your links like they didhttp://Activerain.com is a good venue to subscribe and write blogs like this and link to your page (real estate). You need to pay annual subscription, but for me it was worth
https://www.helpareporter.com/ is a journalism site, you can subscribe free and follow-up the daily emails you get from journalists looking for information on different topics. If something is good fit for your business, write them to have an article on the web
There are a lot of blog registries where you can sign-up your blog, and get a link back. Most of them are now charging $4-5 to put your blog in but I may be worth doing that. Ex. https://www.blogarama.com . Here is an article.
Prepare a site at https://sites.google.com/ , put your business information, power points, documents, excels with links in it. Stuff it up with a lot of material like you use it often.
http://fiverr.com is a place where people do quick projects for you. Search it and try to find good professionals who would put your articles in good rated pages and blogs (like 5-10, not in hundreds). Write 10 unique articles with keywords in it, try not to use an article multiple times in different sites
Again in Fiverr, find people who do 100-150 citations in business directories, they can create your business quickly in many business portalHoufyis a free vacation rental listing. Not much exposure but it is a good backlink option (although they give nofollow links). Tripz.com is another listing site where you can link your listing to your domain.
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