March 2012
2 posts
Celebrate Spring and try campgrounds of Canada for...
Hi Canadian Campground and RV Park owners! Now is a great time to start your full listing! Not just because this is the best time to start promoting your business for the camping season 2012, but also because you can try out our site for free!
Use coupon code: SPRING2012 to receive $CAD24 off - which means that if you choose a one year period - your listing is free!
Please note: this coupon...
February 2012
2 posts
Where are you going camping this summer?
It may seem early and you’re probably still enjoying the ski season to the fullest. Good for you. But as you’re recovering from a day in the powder, it would be a good idea to start thinking about where you would like to go camping this Spring and Summer.
Many campgrounds fill up quickly. People start reserving a spot as early as March. Especially the weekends fill up fast. And...
August 2011
1 post
Payments
If you claim or add your Campground, RV Park or Camping related business ( more about these later; for now you can read more on the Commercial Listings page ), you will pay using PayPal.
PayPal is secure, fast and easy. Even if you don’t have a PayPal account, you can use your credit card to pay. Payments are processed real-time - which means you can start your listing within 2 minutes!
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July 2011
15 posts
Edit your listing - the Listing Wizard
When you claim a listing and the first time you edit your listing: the Listing Wizard will help you out to get the most out of your listing.
In 9 easy steps you will see your listing become a ‘website on a page’ !
STEP 1 - Overview / main data
STEP 2 - Short and Long description
STEP 3 - Upload your logo
STEP 4 - Google Maps and Driving directions
STEP 5 - List and Describe...
Edit your listing: step 9 - the last step!
Step 9 is the final step of the wizard. And it is a fun step: uploading your photo gallery. Also it is an important step because a picture is more than a thousand words! Visitors to your listing page will check these photos. So use your best ones!
STEP 9 You may upload .jpg, .png and .gif images. Make sure that the photos are landscape oriented and at least 800x600 pixels. Don’t upload...
Edit your listing: step 8
Step 8 is all about your rates. We’re almost done! :)
STEP 8 All our fields are optional , so if you want you can choose not to show rates. In the form you will see three types of rates: Unserviced, Electric + Water and Full service sites. If you want you can select the correct price range. Since rates change in time ( high season, low season) you can also use the free text field to write...
Edit your listing: step 7
Step 7 is listing and describing your Activities.
STEP 7 It is almost the same drill as the amenities from step 6: first you select which activities can be done. Select ‘yes, onsite’ if this activity can be done right on the campground. Select ‘yes, nearby’ if the activity is nearby.
List of activities
Your own Activities description text. Use the HTML editor to tell...
Edit your listing: step 6
Step 6 is listing and describing your amenities.
STEP 6 We have quite a long list of amenities. These will be used in the upcoming search form - so make sure to check all amenities that your campground has to offer! If you have amenities that we’re missing in our list - just let us know and we will add them.
List of Amenities - check all that apply
Your own Amenities description text. Use...
Edit your listing: step 5
Step 5 is listing and describing your sites.
STEP 5 List the types of sites that you have. Use only digits and please note that if you have 10 sites - and all of them have 15 Amp and 20 Amp service; you would end up typing 10 in both these fields.
Site types - only use numbers
Your own Sites description text. Use the HTML editor to give extra information about your sites.
Click...
Edit your listing: step 4
Step 4 is the Google Maps location and driving Directions.
STEP 4 Your address and postal code from step 1 are used to get your Google Maps location. But you are in full control and in this step you can drag the marker to a specific place.
Best way to do it is:
first zoom in using the + button (left upper corner)
drag the red marker to the correct position
zoom out again so that the visitor...
Edit your listing: step 3
Step 3 in the wizard is Upload your logo.
STEP 3 Uploading files is easy. Please do note that the upload form required flash. If your upload form does not work as expected - please check if you have the latest Flash version installed. Using an updated browser with updated plugins is a good idea anyway - as they are more secure than older versions. ( Flash update website )
The previous steps: all...
Edit your listing: step 2
Step 2 in the wizard is the Short and Long Description of your listing.
STEP 2 The short description is quite an important one. It is the first sentence your visitors will read when visiting your listing. Also for Google, Bing, Yahoo and all other search engines it is quite an important line: this is also your page description. So do not skip this one. You will have 156 characters and try to...
Edit your listing: step 1
We are live! Listings can be claimed from now on and here is how to do manage your listing.
SIGN UP Sign up - activate your account and claim your listing. Payments are processed by PayPal and this is an easy process. Once your payment is approved you can edit your listing.
Right now I won’t discuss the sign up process as this is a rather easy process. Let’s step in right after...
Printed media
I was showing the upcoming edit module to a good friend of mine and he came up with something interesting. We both agreed that it is most likely that there will be campground/RV park owners who are going to use the campgroundsofcanada.com listing as their ‘website’. You will see for yourself pretty soon why they can do that - basically all the info you need to know about a campground...
Final steps
As you might have noticed, we made a lot of (little) changes on different pages in the last days. We’re getting so close now to finally open the site up to campground and RV park owners.
Sign up Sign up is open on invite only right now. Why is this you ask? We use a small, dedicated and very capable test team to test the last parts of the whole sign-up + manage listing part.
Why does it...
Pagerank
According to our friends at http://www.prchecker.info/ we have currently a pagerank of 4.
And this is good news for a ‘new’ website like us. We will be working hard to improve our pagerank - but PR4 is a good start.
Why is this important? It is important for campground and RVPark owners who will have their business listed on campgroundsofcanada.com. On their profile page is a link...
Content is king
Content is king. Well nothing new here I guess, we already know this. But once in a while it is nice to see some kind of proof.
As we are a fairly new website - it is hard to get our (important) spot in the search engines to get visitors. But I feel you should build a website for your visitors and not for the search engines. That’s why content is really king. And luckily Google also thinks...
Blogs and other resources
There are so many blogs out there that I wish I had more time to read them all! :) Too bad I can’t but I can make a list of blogs I found and you can decide yourself if they are helpful for you.
I will update this post as soon as I find more blogs, websites or other resources that you might like!
www.money-saving-rv-repair.com In the world of RVs, knowledge is not just power, it is money...
Listing pages
You might have noticed that the listing pages have changed. It is all part of the plan - so don’t worry :) It was just yesterday that we announced the local weather - and today a new listing page.
Right now, none of the listings are ‘owned’ - they are all name listings. The main reason for this is that the whole ‘sign up - claim listing - edit listing’ part is not...
June 2011
4 posts
Local weather!
If you are planning your next trip, wouldn’t it be nice to see if it rains or not ? I thought so. As from today you will find the current weather and 4 days of forecast for each city on campgroundsofcanada.com.
image: local weather in Vancouver on campgroundsofcanada.com on 29/06/2011
Looks like it is going to be a but wet in Vancouver for Canada Day 2011 (sorry folks!) but I am...
campgrnd.ca
I just changed the home page for campgrnd.ca and added a logo and some text.
All the sort links are fully functional and you will soon see them on campgroundsofcanada.com. This is an exclusive service just for the listings (current and future listings) on our site. You can use these short links in Twitter, Facebook, your own website or in your e-mails.
For example take this campground:...
And our blog is live
As from today our blog is live! We are using tumblr and we will be posting about anything related to Campgrounds of Canada.
Campground and RV park profile pages If you want to claim your campground you need to login. As you probably have seen: login and signup aren’t activated yet. Right now we are working hard to finish the profile pages; thanks again for your patience! We want to make...