Our Website clients may have noticed a jump in the bounce rate when looking in their Google Analytics console.

Don't worry, this is Google fixing a problem that existed with Event Tracking and us implementing this fix in our Platform.

Why was the bouce rate low in the first place?

Our Platform has a clever feature that allows our Website clients to track various events as visitors browse their website.

For example, if a visitor lands on a Property page in a Portfolio Website, we track that and pass the information about the property into Google Anlytics.

When developing a Platform like ours, it's not uncommon to find (and squish!) bugs. However, when dealing with a web environment, it's often hard to nail down exactly where a given bug actually lives.

Adding Entries to your Directory just got a lot easier

We have introduced a number of changes in the Admin Console over the past few months and a number of them have made the process of adding new Entries to your Tribalogic Directory more difficult. We are sorry about that.

We hope that now, it is a lot easier.

A simple "Add Entry" button is now available under your "Entries" (it may be "My Properties" for you) tab that presents a simple form.

How do I make my new Entry show up on my Website?

Simple - add it to a Listing Subscription.

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Introducing price filtering for availability searching.

As an additional way to help your guests find the right holiday property for them, Property portfolio websites now support pricing sliders on availability searching.

Website visitors can pick a minimum and maximum price to narrow their search and find the ideal holiday property to suit their budget.

How do I add this to my Property Porfolio website?

Drop us a support request and we will add it in for you.

Example

Reserve Apartments: availability search in January 2013, min price £400, max price £1,200

Myself and Laura headed north west from Edinburgh to Achnacarry to check out their nearly-completed apartments. We will be making a Property Portfolio Website for their new self-catering business so the invite gave us a great chance to get a feel for area and what is on offer.

And what a stunning place it is.

The journey itself was worth the trip, firstly taking in the Forth Bridge as we headed over the Forth before speeding on towards Perth, Dunkeld and then Pitlochry into the Cairngorm National Park and along the banks Loch Laggan (passing the Laggan Dam).

We then drove through Spean Bridge and then turned left at the Commando memorial before skirting Loch Lochy and arriving at Achnacarry.

Lorna (who will be looking after guests in the apartments) and her husband Alan welcomed us with cake and scones before I ran Lorna through some of the Bookster Self Catering interfaces and Laura was given a tour of the estate and the apartments.

There are four apartments in the old steading building, and they are going to be fantastic holiday apartments - a great base to explore the stunning surrounding area.

Keep an eye on www.achnacarry.com for details and booking information.

We are going to give our users the ability to significantly empower themselves and their colleagues. We are working on a Marketing Management Toolkit that will give you the levers to expand your business and cut down on administration.

Available in March 2012

The Toolkit will be available from March 2012, but you can grab a bargain now and take advantage of our 12 months for the price of 10 pre-release offer today!

Tribalogic have made a mobile friendly version of the Best of British quality touring and holiday parks website.

• Lightweight for fast download on the move
• AJAX loading
• Identical URLs to full version for SEO and page sharing
• Swipe to view image galleries on park pages

Closest to me

We have taken advantage of the locaiton services available on modern mobile browsers to find Best of British caravan parks closest to your current location.

We have introduced a new Advance Filter in the Admin Console for our Website clients that will allow clients to see all of their Entries that need attention.

Ensure that your photos, descriptions and details are the correct ones, giving your website visitors the best possible information.

A very useful tool when it comes to:

• search engine optimisation - fresh content is highly valuable
• seeing which Entries have recently been updated by yourself or your clients

Under the "Entries" tab in the Admin Console, the Advanced Filter allows the narrowing down of Entries.

From 22nd February 2012 we will no longer support the use of Internet Explorer 7 within our Admin Console.  

This will effect less than 2% of our users.

We will also stop checking client websites in IE7 as a matter of course.

Why can't we support it forever? 

Technologies and browsers move on, and we want to take adantage of them.

IE7 has limited support for HTML 5 and other web technologies that we want to use and give our users the best possible experience.

Internet Explorer 7 was released in October 2006 so it has had it's time.

Interested in watching IE7 use slowly vanish - check out theie7countdown.com.

We have made a big change to how Listings are controlled within our Websites.

Tribalogic Websites allow the listing and searching of Entries

Why?

There are lots of good reasons for us to make this change, even if it would appear to be more confusing than useful for some of our longer term clients.

Client relationship

The Service / Subscription model is better for representing your relationship to your client.

You can bundle multiple Entries together to reflect their relationship to your client.

Upgrade and downgrade

We can provide one great interface in the Admin Console for up/down grading Entries for both Listing and Booking services.

Automatically expiring Subscriptions

You can set an expiration date on a listing Subscription that will remind you to charge for a renewal or turn off the listing.

Future: charging for listings

In the future, we will be able to allow our clients to directly charge for Listings on their Websites.

Example: a typical holiday letting website

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.