Blog, IM, Forum, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Email…
Posted on June 20, 2008 18:10 by: Vik Kachoria
There are so many different places you can spend your time online. You can easily spend hours bouncing between blogging, posting to forums, twittering, flickring, updating Facebook, MySpace & LinkedIn pages and responding to customer emails. All of this is just the work stuff. Then you can spend more time playing games, looking for movie times, planning vacations, buying gifts and sending personal emails. There is no reason to leave your PC anymore. Heck if you take it with you aka iPhone/Palm/Blackberry you can do this while you walk, drive or scooter around.
Coming soon, do this all in your sleep….
Anyone else finding the range of online activities entirely all-encompassing?
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Get RealAdventures Updates Via Twitter
Posted on April 26, 2008 15:22 by: RealAdventures
I’ve been hearing a lot of people raving about twitter, so I decided I had to check out what the buzz was all about. Interesting service that lets members provide quick updates about the latest to their friends or anyone who wants to know.
I signed up for the service and added a couple of quick entries to test it out. Let me know what you think about twitter and if you plan on following our activities.
Check out RealAdventures page on twitter
Or right here on our blog at: http://www.realadventures.com/blog/twitter-updates/
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Check Out RealAdventures’ Page on MySpace.
Posted on November 14, 2007 18:12 by: Elisha Sawyer
We just created a profile for RealAdventures on MySpace, check it out at: http://www.myspace.com/realadventures.
Its our of connecting with young folks that love to travel, explore the world and enjoy new experiences. The page will feature some of the coolest travel photography, hot destinations and general discussions about travel.
Check it out, add us as a friend and let us know what you think.
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RealAdventures Travel Newsletter
Posted on October 25, 2007 13:16 by: Vik Kachoria
Its been quite sometime, but we have finally released our latest travel newsletter. The delay was due to the site conversion that we started in July and implemented early September. Unfortunately, some aspects of the site were not fully converted by September and putting them in place took a bit longer than I had hoped.
Going forward the newsletter will emailed to all current subscribers every two weeks. You can check out the latest editions at the following link:
http://www.realadventures.com/php/newsletter.htm?mOption=NewsLetterIssues
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Advertisers Puzzle Me
Posted on October 25, 2007 13:06 by: Vik Kachoria
I have to admit that I don’t always understand people, but I think I generally can place myself in their shoes (if you push me a bit). However, there is something that I just don’t get, perhaps someone can help explain it to me.
We offer advertisers a trial listing so they can see if the site will bring them qualified customers. There is no cost and no obligation to the trial listing and lots of advertisers sign up to see if we live up to the claims on our advertising page. Read more
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Don’t Buy Or Sell Text Links
Posted on October 25, 2007 12:46 by: Vik Kachoria
Lots of articles, blogs and forum discussion on the very harsh penalty Google is imposing on websites that buy or sell text links. See the following article on how it has affected major sites like Forbes, Washington Post and others: http://searchengineland.com/071024-093938.php
I haven’t been checking the SEO forums lately and missed out on this development. Catching up on some emails, I came across an article in an e-zine discussing this issue. Normally I would have skipped it over, but Dan Sullivan wrote the piece and I thought I would check it out.
Before Google penalizes RealAdventures, all paid text links at the bottom of our pages have been removed. We will no longer offer paid text links to pages outside of our site.
I would recommend that you think twice before you buy or sell text links on your site. It no longer is a viable means of boosting your PageRank and improving search engine visibility.
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RealAdventures Affiliate Program Now Multi-Tiered
Posted on September 22, 2007 16:45 by: Vik Kachoria
We’ve just upgraded our affiliate program and created a new way for affiliates to earn commissions. We have added a very exciting ”Multi-Tiered Commission Structure”.
Affiliates will still earn 25% on all new travel advertisements, plus commissions on travel arrangements made by visitors they refer. We still track their visitors with a cookie for 14 days.
But now, they will also get 10% of the commissions their sub-affiliates earn. What is a “Sub-Affiliate”? Simple, they are affiliates that sign up for the program through a referral by current affiliates (’Master’). There is no limit to the number of sub-affiliates a ‘Master’ affiliate can have.
Affiliates don’t need to do anything special to participate. Of course, if they really want to benefit from this program, they’ll start getting their uncles, aunts, daughters, son’s soccer coach and everyone else to sign up as an affiliate.
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Rolling Out RealAdventures 2.0
Posted on September 21, 2007 14:09 by: Vik Kachoria
Starting August 28, 2007, we quietly started rolling out the new RealAdventures. Day by day we have been refining the system, addressing the inevitable bugs and continuing to work on some very nice tools & services for our visitors & clients.
The rollout has been fairly smooth but for the first couple of weeks, we did experience a very significant drop in visitor traffic and inquiries. This has leveled off and is building back up to previous levels. It looks like the traffic drop is due to the new URLs for our summary pages. We have been working with Google and other search engines to remove the old URLs and add the new ones to their directories. I expect in another week or so, traffic will be climbing to new heights.
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Beware of Requests For Cashiers Checks Or Western Union Payments
Posted on September 16, 2007 16:58 by: Vik Kachoria
Here’s the latest fraud being perpetrated on this and other travel & vacation websites. Please beware of any requests for payment by Cashiers Check or Western Union payments. Basically, don’t send money this way, it almost definitely is fraud.
Here is what happens:
Someone in Nigeria obtains stolen credit card information. They then use these credit cards to sign-up for an advertisement here, on other websites and in newspapers. Read more
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RealAdventures v2.0 Coming Soon…
Posted on August 22, 2007 23:34 by: Vik Kachoria
In between Marc’s programming-in-Hebrew lessons and my challenges with the short supply of Coke cans (bottled in Atlanta), we have been feverishly working on Version 2.0 of the RealAdventures website. This has been long over due, but we finally got the immense project started the beginning of this summer and are hoping to launch it early September.
At first, there will not be many differences in the layout of the various pages, but you should see a significant improvement in speed. In very rapid succession, we will be improving the navigation of the site and adding a number of exciting widgets.
I’ll provide more details as we get closer to the launch date….
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