How to make the most of your listing with Visit South Devon

Use all the features of your listing

All our listing levels include a map, contact details, pricing and unlimited text. The text section of the site allows for bold text so that you can highlight headings and break up the text on your listing.

Each of our membership packages has a different range of features associated with the listing level. It is beneficial to ensure you make the most of the features available to you.

All our Silver and above listings can list facilities, have an increased number of images, add awards logo, add directions and travel information and add special offers. Our higher level packages also allow for social media feed and YouTube video integration.

Text Description

There is no limit on the amount of text you can include on your listing, the text description is used to highlight your business features and explain what the images are depicting.

Write a description for your listing that is unique and targets individual markets. If your business has a USP include this or explain why you’re great for walkers, cyclists, families, couples or if you are dog-friendly.

Your listing will be indexed by Google so try and include some keywords that will help make your page more favourable for important searches – e.g. “we are a dog friendly Dartmouth hotel…”, etc.

Write a separate short description to your main text, the short description is what appears in the search results. Make it snappy and attractive, so visitors click on your record, not others.

Images

Images are really important and key to selling your business to visitors. The number of images your listing can have depends on your listing level, these are detailed below. Please note that the website displays landscape images.

We always recommend the best images to host are light pictures taken on a bright day and taken in landscape to ensure as much detail as possible is displayed. For accommodation listings it is also helpful to include an image of the outside of your property.

Bronze; 1
Silver; 5
Gold: 15
Platinum; 25

Events

All members with Visit South Devon are entitled to host an unlimited number of events on the site. Events can be added for any time in the future and can easily be added via our online form found here – www.visitsouthdevon.co.uk/whats-on/submit-event

Events must be within South Devon and suitable for tourists. All approved events will be added to the site and if suitable the Discover Dartmouth site.

Facilities

Update the facilities section of your listing with the key facilities so visitors know if you offer parking, a swimming pool or include towels, as well as any that make you stand out from other businesses. Visitors can also search the site using facility tick boxes, these boxes use the facilities in their search criteria. The facilities section displays on Level 2 and above listings, but the facility tick box search results return all listing levels.

TripAdvisors

The Visit South Devon site has the ability to pull in and show your TripAdvisor reviews and rating on your listing page and search result. This feature is available to all Silver and above members as part of your membership package with us.

Social Media Integration

Display your Twitter and FaceBook feeds within your listing for Silver and above advertisers. This allows you to show up to date info, offers and images from our social media feeds.

Book Now button

A Book Now button is available on all product types for Silver and above members. This button shows on the search result for your listing as well as your product listing and links directly to your room booking, availability calendar or online ticket purchase page. We can track the number of referrals to your site via this button.

Videos

If you have video content for your business make sure you share this with potential visitors by displaying it on your listing on the VSD website. This feature is available to all Gold and above packages.

Banner adverts

We have the following banners available to all our advertisers

We also have Don’t Miss and Gallery Image adverts available across the site, these banners link to your listing page on the Visit South Devon site.

In each enewsletter we have space for 3 banner adverts, which link directly to your own website.

Special offers

Throughout the year we host a range of special offer sections on the site allowing you to host time specific offers. Offers can be added to your listing and the offer section via your Extranet log in. Special offers are available for Silver and above members.

Blogs

All members with Visit South Devon are welcome to send guest blog posts which we will be hosted on the site and shared through social media and newsletters. Guest blog posts can be used to promote your business, events or South Devon.

Competitions

We are happy to work with you to run competitions, within each enewsletter we run a competition which is also promoted via the website and on social media. We also run competitions between our main competitions which are promoted on the website and through social media.

Link Back to Visit South Devon

Talk about a South Devon town or the wider area on your website and link back to the Visit South Devon website. Not only will you be providing the visitor with further information on the area, but this will help with search engine optimization on your site.

Include the Visit South Devon Logo on Your Website

Show visitors that you are affiliated with and support the local tourism organisation and include the Visit South Devon logo on your website. Copies of the logo are available for any member to download from here, for other colours please contact Visit South Devon.

Social Media Tips

Find useful tip and advice on how to make the most of social media and how to engage with Visit South Devon to get extra promotion for your posts here.