Archive for May, 2008

The more specific purpose of tourism portals

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

When flicking through the article about the purpose of Bettr.info it can easily be done another step: the huge amount of currently competing web portals is exclusively aimed at the following purposes:

  • Optimization of search engines
  • Manipulation of search engines
  • Search requests: the linked web site to be positioned among the first few hits

The visitor’s immediate impression can be summarized as follows:

  • Confusion and overloading due to a lot of information mounted up within a very short period of time
  • Manipulated information due to paid top positions
  • Low safety degree due to numerous unfiltered offers on the portal sites

One major objective can thus be identified:

To generate turnover for the portal provider or their direct customers (i.e. advertising customers).