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Thanks to some clueless people, comments have temporarily been restricted. Since Google is doing a horrible job at keeping the spammers at bay, this blog will be moving to the DineSXM server shortly.
Posts will resume as soon as the move is completed.
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DineSXM's Dinner Voucher Giveaway
Here's a little reminder, in case you've missed the original announcement: ten St. Maarten restaurants have recently teamed up with DineSXM for our Summer Giveaway.
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(Subtitle: when it takes a friend to nudge you in the right direction...)
Et Voila! After almost 2 1/2 years of thinking about creating an embeddable map of all St. Maarten and St. Martin restaurants that we feature on the DineSXM website, here it is....
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(Subtitle: rearranging the deck chairs at Kiwi Café)
As I have noted here before, "The tourist season in St. Martin and St. Maarten starts after Halloween, and ends with the Easter weekend. Apart from a handful of French visitors in July and August, the island tends to quiet down rather dramatically in Summer." This past Saturday around dinner time, my friend Sebastiaan from Sopranos restaurant and I did a bit of competitive analysis while driving from the Sonesta Maho Beach resort to Marty's Gyro in Simpson Bay.
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Updated 3/15, see below
From the looks of it, the ladies at L'Estaminet restaurant in Grand Case had someone build a new website for their upscale eatery. But, rather than spending money on something that is proven to work: a profile on DineSXM, they decided to go the amateur route.
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Today, we're happy to release our very first DineSXM Media Kit, which includes pretty much everything a restaurant owner or manager on St. Maarten / St. Martin should know about joining our popular restaurant reservations and dining guide.
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PageRank is a link analysis algorithm named after Larry Page. Google uses this algorithm as one of many factors to score documents (rank nodes) in the linked database that we all call World Wide Web. It was developed by Google's founders Larry and Sergey while they were students at Stanford University in the late 90's.
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Our recent press release was published today in "The Daily Herald" - St. Maarten's local newspaper.
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In part one of this analysis (read it now if you haven't yet), I wrote about how we selected our sample of websites for the benchmark survey. We follow fifteen websites that provide visitor information for the island of St. Maarten / St. Martin in the Caribbean. Update, there's now a part three as well.
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Since our launch of DineSXM.com in February 2008, search engine traffic has contributed significantly to the site's growth. In the 3 month period from March 1st until May 31st 2009, approximately 63% of visitors came to our restaurant reservations and dining guide by following a link from a search engine. This number is up from 25% in the same period in 2008.
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Below is a screen capture of DineSXM's new Facebook page (login required). We use it to promote special events that are organized by more than 40 restaurants that are featured on the DineSXM restaurant guide.
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Out of curiosity, I compiled a summary of the 102 restaurant names that visitors of the DineSXM dining guide unsuccessfully typed into our search box hoping to find their favorite place to eat on our dining guide.
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Astute readers will have understood by now that many St. Martin and St. Maarten restaurants still haven't latched on to the internet yet. Yes, it's Thursday again and I find myself posting another list of unfindable restaurants. This is the final installment for now, because I feel like I'm beating this horse to death.
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Yet another Thursday, and it's time again for our weekly listing of "unfindable" restaurants. Below are the names of restaurants on the island of Sint Maarten / Saint Martin that people have searched for on DineSXM in the past week.
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Time for the second installment of Thursday's DineSXM missing restaurant roundup. The restaurants below were searched for on the DineSXM website in the past 7 days but could not be found because their owners did not take action yet...
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The Sint Maarten and Saint Martin restaurants listed below missed out on a good chance to generate extra business for their establishments. They just lost an easy opportunity to make money, only because they failed to list their venue on the DineSXM restaurant reservations and dining guide.
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