Talked to a start up campground owner and once listed in the campground directories they started doing better. They have no permanent sites. Asking clients to write reviews in www.rvparkreviews.com and others also helps. They also that their biggest draw as setting up October kids activities like pumpkin carving, finger painting etc (fee to cover expenses) and a spook trail and allowing day users as well as campers.
Richard and Babs and a Bob Tail Cat
97 Beaver Patriot 40 Kitchen Slide
330 HP Member FMCA, BAC, Good Sam, CAT RV Club
Toad 04 Durango HEMI
Make sure that the meta tags and description tags on your web pages are properly filled in. Most search engines will start to show them in a few months as long as you don't break the structure of the pages.
Make sure the URL is easy to remember. RVNomad.com is a lot easier than http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1nh79/index.html
The domain name and URL will cost under $100 to get established. Send me a private message if this doesn't make sense to you.
If you have the room, sponsor a regional scouting event.
Post a sign in the registration area:
"If you like your stay here, please post a review. If not, please tell us and allow us to make it right. Thank You."
A quarter page ad in the local paper is also very effective.
Set up a deal with the local RV dealer that let's folks spend the weekend with their brand new rig as a shake down cruise.
The web site is up and running. I had the site address in my original post in case someone had a suggestion, but it looks like an admin has removed it. I presume it is against forum policy so I won't post it again.
The site name is both distinctive and easy to remember. I was very careful in that respect.
I did some poking around about the meta tags. From what I gather, meta tags were becoming so abused that most search engines now completely ignore them. Looks Alta Vista, Google, Yahoo, etc., use bots, crawlers, hits, and site relevance algorithms to verify and catalog site information. But I'm sure open to more information if you have it.
Brad
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I've made a deal to trade web site links with several local businesses that are out-of-area draws. I'm looking into having some nice flyers printed and sent out to all the RV dealerships within a 2 hour radius. A local private pilot has agreed to let me go up with him some day so I can get an overhead pic I can post to the web site.
Thy sent me a little directory . Inside was a piece of paper with some campground information from parks who joined after they printed the directory.
Marilyn w/ Joe, 2000 Xplorer Class B van, usually pulling a Ranger bass boat.
Smudge, (in photo) a Shih Tzu/Yorkie Mix and Gizmo is waiting at the Rainbow Bridge
Gizmos link to TACO is a good place to start. It might be too late, but every spring, they have a convention for RV Park owers that's worth going to. I waited until the weekend before a few years ago, and was still able to get in by calling them on the phone. There will be Park owners there from all over the state, as well as others in the industry.
From what I was told, Trailer Life is by far the number one source that people use to find a park. The breakdown is something over 50 percent for Trailer Life with the others all sharing to varying degrees as the remaining sources. With one publication being that popular, nothing else makes any sense. They keep a copy of it in their RV and/or use it when planning their routes. The average person keeps a copy for 4 years before buying a new one. The Deadline to get your add in for next year is around early August.
Billboards are just about worthless. Websites are good for those already considering coming there, but not very good for new clients. Local Chambers are good for getting your name out for visitors. A realy good sign is worth as much as those sources and then some.
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