UpTake Launches Travel Gems--Hopes to Build Awareness of Travel Blogs from Across the Web

As bloggers, I know many of you wish for increased traffic for your blog. I am pleased to present a fun way for you to do that, using posts you've already written, and improving the SEO of your blog at the same time.

If you write about things to do, places to go and where to stay, you may want to participate in the
UpTake Travel Gems.

UpTake Travel Gems is a program that posts relevant blog excerpts, with a link and photo, alongside UpTake's 20 million travelers' reviews and listings of over 775,000 places to stay.

What's a relevant blog post? It could be:
• the inside scoop about a local restaurant
• how you got a deal on tickets at a sporting venue
• your favorite unknown beach
• the best playground for toddlers in your town

Your personal experiences and recommendations are exactly what UpTake travelers want to read. Reach a whole new audience and show them that you're the expert of your neighborhood. And at the same time, improve your site's SEO with inbound links from UpTake.com!

Want to be part of Travel Gems? Here's how:

1. Add a link to any entry on UpTake.com in one of your posts (Note: the link needs to be to the UpTake.com travel site, not one of their blog posts).

Remember, you can use existing blog posts. Take a few minutes to go through your archives,add a link UpTake.com where appropriate, and enjoy the stroll down, "This is why I love to blog" Memory Lane!

2. UpTake will contact you if your posts are selected for the Travel Gems program. If you are not on Wordpress and don't have pingbacks enabled, then just send us an email with the link to the post or two you want featured on UpTake and they will review and publish on the page most relevant to the post subject.

We hope you take advantage of this opportunity to reach new readers!

PS -- Yes, you can invite your friends, all of them.

Questions? Please send a note to travelgems at uptake (This is Pat and I read every email sent to that account.)

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Comment by Ryan Clark on March 31, 2010 at 11:13am: I've really been enjoying the extra link and traffic love I've been getting on some of my sites! Keep up the awesome app work :)