Search Engine Call to Reservation with Sitelinks

Search Engine Call to Reservation with Sitelinks

Notes

Do not use for booking buttons. Only for SiteLinks and SiteMaps This manual is for setting up SiteLinks through site maps (XML sitemaps for Search Engines). Do NOT use this manual to set up reservation buttons. To configure booking buttons, see the guide: Booking Buttons - Calls to Action.

Description

This functionality allows your Webmaster to configure your site map and include a direct link from the search engine site link results to your website’s hotelRSV booking engine.

Notes

This is a very powerful option, since reduced to just ONE CLICK the possibility to book directly from a search result on Google, Bing or Yahoo!

Determining Base URL

The Base URL is the full link of the webpage where hotelRSV is installed, i.e. if hotelrsv is installed on the home page (e.g. index.html) then the URL will be: www.myhotel.com. Another example might be www.myhotel.com/reservations/.

Info

Unless your reservations page finishes with .html, .asp, .jsp, .php, make sure to end with the trailing hash.

Notes

Make sure you point to your websites URL correctly. Test before sharing! When clicking, your URL should behave like this: to test click here.

Configuring the Links for One-Click Launcher

Add this to the end of your full URL:

?f_name=hrsv_dl_launcher&lead_src=one_click_sitelink

Sitemap

Sitemaps should be configured with the Link. The “reservation” link should be configured with the one-click launcher URL configuration.

Sample Sitemap:

[code language=”css”]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Info

<urlset

xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9

http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">

<url>

<loc>http://www.myhotel.com/</loc>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

<priority>1</priority>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.myhotel.com/es/"/>

</url>

<url>

<loc>http://www.myhotel./es/?f_name=hrsv_dl_launcher&lead_src=one_click_sitelink&lcode=es</loc>

<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>

<priority>1</priority>

<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.myhotel.com/es/reservations/?f_name=hrsv_dl_launcher&lead_src=one_click_sitelink" />

</url>

</urlset>

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1.- Main Search result Link
2.- Sitelink

Notes

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