Jerrold’s Travel Journal - Spain website update
2011
I haven’t done a lot on the Spain website for awhile but I seem to be getting some of my passion back for Spain and working on the website.
It has been a number of years since I have gone through all the outside hyperlinking on the website to insure they remain relevant. Link updating is one of the most time consuming activities a webmaster can engage in but it is an essential activity if Traveling In Spain is going to remain on the web. Unless you are a regular user of the website you probably will not notice the different but hopefully, soon, if you click on a outside link, you will not see any of those 404 error notices or end up on a non-quality Spain related website.
I am also working on correcting outdated information as I try to get the Spain webpages in to the newer format. Example: My family’s first Spain tapas tour. This process has me thinking about going back to Spain. 2012 is looking to be a good time to visit Spain. Recently Euro to USD exchange rates have been more favorable and Spain remains an economical travel destination when compared to Italy, France or the UK. At the moment, compared to 2007, Spain hotels are more flexible on their pricing, and restaurants and transport companies are discounting to get customers. At the same time, my contacts tell me, service in Spain has only gotten better as companies have had to compete on all levels for business. So, can I make it to Spain in 2012? I really should; it would allow me to add new content to the Spain website and help me identify any currently outdated information on the site. We will see.
Updating the Spain Travel Guide
12/18/11
For the next few months I will be focused primarily on updating and deleting dead links, correcting out-of-date information and getting more of the Spain Guide pages in to the new(er) format. I will try to add some additional, new, original content too.
Check out my article update - my family’s very first tapas tour taken in Madrid, Spain.
Side note:
As I delate all the old, non-functioning outside links, I am reminded of all the really cool Spain websites that used to be on the web. In 1999 when I started the Spain Travel website there was not a whole lot of useful Spain Travel information on the internet. Many sites were nothing more than a city’s official brochure information copied in to a web page; high quality travel photos were non-existent. It was the amateur travelers where the real info was. A lot of these sites were on GeoCites, now gone; and with it much of this earlier content. Some websites disappeared when their owners died, wives and family likely did not know how to renew the domain name. These domain names were then often bought up by companies seeking only to exploit the domain for traffic; no new original content just a lot of commercial linking. You can still find some amateur content sites on my Spain Travelogues page but most of the new amateur travel content, for what it is, seems to be on Social Networking and Blogging sites. It has been years since I have seen a link request from a “ma and pa” travel website which was written just for the joy. I miss those days.