Up Take-Travel Gems/Featured Travel Gems-How To

Travel Gems and Featured Travel Gems

What is UpTake?
A travel search engine that helps people make better decisions about where to go, where to stay, what to do
World’s largest travel catalog
5,000 Sources
50,000 Destinations
775,000 Hotels and Attractions
Blog network of 50 writers and 8 blogs
Doing well!
>1.3M UVs in June (Compete.com)

What is a Travel Gem?
What?
We deliver your posts to a new audience by integrating a short excerpt of your post on UpTake consumer pages
How?
Simple! Link to a page on UpTake that is valuable to users and relevant to your posts
We analyze your post to identify the relevant excerpt, then we review and publish it
Why?
Brings awareness to your blog
Drives traffic to your site
SEO benefit
Provide a good resource for your readers

How to find the right page on UpTake
For Detail Pages:
Type in the name of the attraction, hotel, restaurant, etc. in the Google search box plus “UpTake”
(e.g. Huntley Hotel + UpTake)
For Search Pages:
Go to Uptake.com
Enter in the relevant location and choose the specific category (hotel, attraction or vacation)

How to link to UpTake
Find the relevant page and keyword you wish to connect with on UpTake and select “hyperlink” and insert the appropriate URL
Ex: Hyperlink “downtown Los Angeles” to our Nightlife near Downtown LA pg (Wordpress platform is shown below)
Watch this short video if you want to see how easy it is to become a Gem!

How to become a Featured Travel Gem
Featured Gems are displayed prominently at the top of our Search and Detail pages
A Featured Travel Gem is an outstanding blog post that helps potential travelers make well-informed decisions and is extremely well matched to the page on which it appears
How to be featured:
Need to meet a list of criteria which our editorial team will review and approve accordingly
For a list of our criteria click here

How a Featured Travel Gem appears on UpTake

Helpful Articles
Travel Gem Blogger Profiles
Once you participate, we will add you to our blogger profile page which will include a link back to your blog
Self-Registration Form
You can just send us the post(s) you want featured and the page where you recommend it appears on UpTake by completing this form
Travel Gem Blogger Leaderboard
Leaders are determined by the number of Travel Gems and featured gems on UpTake
How to be a Featured Gem
More information
Travel Gems Badges
You can put a badge on your side bar telling others we think you are a gem, if you wish
How to allow Pingback technology to your Wordpress blog
In order for us to “hear” you
Watch this short video showing you how easy it is to become a Gem!

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