Search Engine Call to Reservation with Sitelinks
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.
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/.
Unless your reservations page finishes with .html, .asp, .jsp, .php, make sure to end with the trailing hash.
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"?>
<urlset
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
<url>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1</priority>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="http://www.myhotel.com/es/"/>
</url>
<url>
<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>
<!-- OTHER URLS -->
</urlset>
[/code]
1.- Main Search result Link2.- Sitelink
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