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Hotel Traffic

Austin City Guide manages a network of interactive information kiosks in 57 Austin hotels that  provide their guests with a quick resource for Austin restaurants, Austin bars, Austin golf courses, Austin things to do, Austin shopping, and Austin Services by offering quick access to our website.  Our kiosks also offer hotel guests access to printing boarding pass, checking email, and maps, weather, etc.  These free services help attract hotel guests to our kiosk and deliver over 30,000 hotel guests to our guide each month.  If you wish to promote your business to Austin hotel guests, Austin City Guide provides a dynamic, affordable, and easy means to reach this niche market. 

           

Search Engine Traffic
Our website is also prominently placed in search engines with top 5 rankings for many popular local search terms.  This brings an additional 50,000 - 60,000 visitors to our guide each month. 
All of the main areas of information in our site are search engine optimized to rank well in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.  If you search for any of the following terms our guides are ranked within the top 5 natural search engine results:   Austin Bars and Clubs, Austin Golf Courses, Austin Things to Do, Austin Restaurant Guide.   For composite search engine rankings, search using Myriad Composite Search Engine Rankings to see your rankings in major search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo.

Our client listings are also individually optimized to rank well in search engines.  Googling "Austin imax", "Z Tejas Austin", and "Riverplace golf course Austin" all show our content ranked highly.  While these results vary from client to client and search engine to search engine, we tend to rank within the top 5 results listed.  If you are interested in getting your business listed well in search engines, we recommend you check our extra information on Austin Search Engine Marketing and Optimization.



Understanding Our Classes of Content

Our system uses 3 classes on content:  featured , basic, and free listings.  Featured listings are listed above basic listings and both have buttons, descriptions, and information about what the listing shows.  Featured and basic listings offer rich content designed to increase the conversion rate of the number of viewers to the number of actual customers by offering more compelling content.   These rich content features include videos, photo galleries, email forms, unlimited pictures and text, website links, online reservations, etc.  Free listings simply offer a few brief description of the establishment, a couple of pictures, and a map link.    To see this in action the different classes of content in action, please access any section of our guide using the links above. 

Why offer free content?  
Free listings help drive traffic to our website and thus to our featured and basic listings.  When people use a search engine like Google to search for a business in which we offer a free listing, our page generally ranks in the top 5 options.  When people select the listing, they are introduced to our guide and encouraged to visit featured clients as we place small advertisements to featured listings at the top of the free listing.  These small ads create an additional avenue to drive traffic to our featured listings.   To see this in action, notice the two buttons with descriptions at the top of Fleming's Steakhouse free listing to other featured restaurants. 

Setup Fees
We charge a $199 setup fee to design both basic and featured listings.  This includes everything but video production, which we outsource to third parties and can range in cost from $300 - $500, depending on the shoot time.  If you already have video content, we do not charge to integrate it into your listing.

Monthly Rates
Our regular monthly rates for featured listings is $179 per month and basic listings are $99 per month, plus tax.   Some specialty categories may cost more and we offer incentives for non profit organizations and small businesses, which may pay less.  Some businesses may wish to purchase an additional listing for $25 per month.  Additional listings are most commonly used to promote the bar aspect of a restaurant that has an active bar scene or to promote businesses with more than one location.   

Terms
All of our service agreements are month-to-month with a 30-day notice to cancel.

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Please email us or call 512-291-1162 to set up a time for a 15 minute presentation to learn more about how we can help promote your business.