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Campground Owners
"News"
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Videos! Until now, both "Silver" and "Gold" listings included campground photos but now, "Gold" listings owners can also show a video of their campground in their listing. The process is quite simple, you email us your video and our graphics staff will make a 10-15 minute montage using our specialized video conversion tools. Click here to see a sample video in our "Demo" listing.
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Most of our campgrounds (approx. 98%) now have longitude & latitude coordinates so we can automatically generate a Mapquest™ map for the campground as well as driving directions. This mapping required many months of work but will prove to be quite popular with campers as this was requested often over the last couple of years.
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We just recently added a "region" field to our database as a supplement to city and province. With this new field, campers can now get a listing of campgrounds by region. This was also a feature that campers have been requesting over the last while.
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We have also recently expanded our free listing feature to display more information about campgrounds in the campground search result pages. This additional campground information (laundromat, fishing, pool...) is shown as icons.
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Another addition to our website is the "campground ratings" feature. This allows campers to either do a quick rating (5 point scale) of a campground and/or write a full blown review. Such reviews are very popular on the internet as they prove to be helpful to the general public while providing critical feedback to business owners such as yourself.
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Campers can now sort campground search results in many different ways. By default, when a campground search is performed, campgrounds are listed in ascending order of city and campground name. But now, campers can re-sort the search results in ascending or descending order of campground name, region, city, campground type (private, provincial, national) and number of sites.
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SiteSearch. Our website now has its own search tool. Our visitors can now search for camping information within our website.
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We have just added a new tool ("Rules & Regulations") with which you can now enter your campground rules & regulations. As with all other campground listings information, it is optional which means that your rules & regulations page will only show in your campground listing if there is information to show.
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We have also recently enhanced the "Local attractions" page so that you can now enter the website address (ie. URL) of a local attraction as well as a description of the local attraction. As they say, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words!
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We have just increased the storage space allocated for Each campground listing photos. This means that you can now store more photos of your campground at no extra charge! Also, we recently added a new feature that greatly simplifies the process of uploading photos. You no longer have to provide photos of specific dimensions and size.... our new tool will automatically reformat your photos to the appropriate dimensions and size. Furthermore, we have also created a new feature called "Photo-zoom" that allows viewers of your campground listing to "zoom" a photo and view a larger version of it.
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We have also just recently implemented a "Campground owners forum" section specifically for you the campground owners. The current forum topics include employment, for sale, grounds maintenance, help, looking for, marketing ideas, miscellaneous, rates / fees, reservations, services and tips. New forum topics will be added as requested.
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We have also added new tools to help with your campground advertisement / marketing. One tool automatically generates business cards for your campground (includes a photo, your contact information, a "caption" and your campground ID) and the other tool generates a 5"x7" camping-canada logo with the instructions on how to visit your campground listing on "camping-canada.com". Both of these can be printed off of your black&white or color printer. |
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We were recently awarded
a
Golden Web Award for the second time! We are, of course, very proud
of this award as it is presented
by the "International Association
of Web Masters and Designers (IAWMD)"
to websites whose "design, originality
and content have achieved levels
of excellence". And in an effort to further improve our website, we have recently added new features which are introduced below.
Please note that we are always on the lookout for comments, ideas and suggestions as we want to make this website easy to use but yet sophisticated enough to help you market your camping business. Please use our
feedback form to help us help you!
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| Website statistics |
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With the enhancements we have made over the last few years (new databases and servers, the introduction of classified ads, banner advertisements, new and improved search engines, direct mapping with Mapquest™ maps and many others), our website has experienced quite a jump in popularity and obviously an increase in traffic
to our website.
As can be seen in the diagram on the right, we reached the "1,000,000 hits per month" mark back in May 2006! We are truly fired up by these numbers as they are a reflection of the growing popularity of our website! Our target is to increase traffic by at least 25-50% every year.
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