VentureBeat: UpTake, the travel search engine that gets its traffic from Google, takes in $10M
tom
· 1 year ago
this makes sense to me.
i start all my research in google and it seems a lot easier to get me to their site that way than to get me to learn and remember their name
The Pedro
· 1 year ago
So let me get this right - if I can get decent SEO ranking for less competitive keywords I can raise $10 million? And why is it apparently a good thing that only 2% of site traffic comes from direct traffic? Doesn't that mean low loyalty? Am I on crack?
I'm sure Uptake's tech team is great and conceptually the site is interesting, but I'm exhausted by sites that aggregate other sites' UGC.
Randy G.
· 1 year ago
Congratulations uptake team. Time for the hard work - let's see you get your search rankings even higher!
Neil Cohen
· 1 year ago
The product works great. I just used it with great success to find a place in Carmel to stay for Labor Day weekend. It really saved me a lot of time and I did bookmark the site once I had a great experience. Focusing on SEO prior to building a consumer brand with outbound advertising is smart business.
jasper
· 1 year ago
Dan, good post. There is too much information out there already, what I need are sites that help me get to the information I need when I need it.
I was impressed by the site. Not because they aggregate content but how they used the content to recommend romantic hotels and how they only showed me the most useful snippets of text to explain why I would want the particular hotel
Good showing
Yen
· 1 year ago
Dan, thanks for the thoughtful post.
The unaddressed consumer need we are tackling is to aggregate and filter the ocean of existing travel information so consumers can make better decisions faster (then head off to their favorite booking site). This need is not solved by creating more content or organization tools; it is best solved by organizing the information that already exists so consumers can find what’s more relevant based on who they are traveling with, why they are traveling, or other trip preference. We also believe it doesn’t make sense to fight gravity and build a destination site or negotiate distribution deals - we get travel consumers where 73% of them start their research…in web search.
Cheers, Yen
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· 1 year ago
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i start all my research in google and it seems a lot easier to get me to their site that way than to get me to learn and remember their name
I'm sure Uptake's tech team is great and conceptually the site is interesting, but I'm exhausted by sites that aggregate other sites' UGC.
I was impressed by the site. Not because they aggregate content but how they used the content to recommend romantic hotels and how they only showed me the most useful snippets of text to explain why I would want the particular hotel
Good showing
The unaddressed consumer need we are tackling is to aggregate and filter the ocean of existing travel information so consumers can make better decisions faster (then head off to their favorite booking site). This need is not solved by creating more content or organization tools; it is best solved by organizing the information that already exists so consumers can find what’s more relevant based on who they are traveling with, why they are traveling, or other trip preference. We also believe it doesn’t make sense to fight gravity and build a destination site or negotiate distribution deals - we get travel consumers where 73% of them start their research…in web search.
Cheers, Yen
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