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iknow customers are able to set up a free link to their website from their iknow-uk listing at no extra charge. The link will be set up in return for you linking back to the iknow site. Customers are able to activate the link option through your control panel under the Options and Features section. This feature transforms our highly effective accommodation listings into hotel web service traffic marketing tool.
Links are seen by search engines as a 'vote' from one site recommending another. Genuine good quality links from relevant sites are hard to come by so search engines place a high value on such links. Therefore the link from an iknow website to your site will provide a boost to your search engine placing, just as your return link will help the iknow sites.
A reciprocal link will therefore ensure that the iknow sites continue to command class leading search engine presence, so generating even more bookings for you!
Please contact us by phone or email if you require any more information.
The link to your website will be automatically added to your iknow listing page once the link to iknow has been set up and checked.
Link checking by iknow-uk will take place periodically by means of an automated program that will visit your website on a regular basis. It works in a similar way to a search engine crawler and will not affect the running of your website.
Our link does not need to be prominent or have a logo or special colour. However, the link must be clearly visible in a colour that contrasts well with the background. The link or the page it is on must not have any tag to prevent search engine indexing or following.
The link from your iknow page may be removed at any time if the link from your website cannot be validated. This may happen if:
You should get more visitors and more enquiries generated through your own website. However, you may not know if an enquiry from your site found the site from visiting your iknow site.
You may get fewer enquiries from your iknow listing if more people decide to enquire direct from your site.
Our customer's websites vary greatly in quality. If your site is not all it could be it may actually put people off! Make sure you have great photos and the site is quick and easy to use.
Links are a significant contributor to search engine visibility. Your website will benefit greatly from the link from us, just as our sites will also benefit from the link from you. This will further enhance our search engine status, so generating more visitors, so creating more enquiries and bookings for our customers.
The status of your link is monitored daily and any changes will normally be reflected on your listing within 48 hours.
No. If you change the link code in any way our link checking program may not find the link to us so our link to you will be dropped.
Yes. You can style our link how you wish as long as you place all style code outside of the code we supply you with.
The most common reasons are that you have not fully completed the link process or 48 hours has not yet passed. If there is no link showing on your iknow page 48 hours after the reciprocal link on your site has gone live please contact our Technical Support on 0871 871 0851 for help.
Yes. Your website provider should provide you with webstats that tell you how many people visit your site and where they come from, including which sites they come from. Most web providers supply these stats at no extra charge.
You could try out the web hosting service we are developing which includes comprehensive webstats. Call us on 0871 871 0851.