How your booking widget's tours show up in Google
In most layouts, every tour in your booking widget has a web address of its own, which search engines can find and show in their results. What they show depends on your layout and on your website.
A web address for each tour
Opening a tour changes the address in the browser to your tours page plus ?tt-tour= and the tour's number and name, such as www.yourcompany.com/tours/?tt-tour=1321-volcano-hike. That address can be shared and bookmarked, and it opens the tour.
- Cards, Photo cards and Tiles: each tour opens in a window, at its own address.
- Full width: every tour is shown in full on the one page, so a tour has no address of its own, and a link to it opens the whole page.
Choose the layout under Website integrations → Tours, in Interface layout.
What search engines get
On a tour's address, the booking widget tells search engines:
- ✓The page's title: the tour's name and your business name.
- ✓Its description: the tour's short description.
- ✓The tour's name, description, photos and the price its card shows, in a form search engines read. The price is always your default price list's.
- ✓Tour names as headings, and each photo described by its tour's name.
On WordPress and similar websites
Many websites tell search engines one main address for each page: every WordPress site does, and so do SEO plugins such as Yoast. The booking widget never changes that address, so on such a website search engines take your tours' addresses for your tours page.
The TourTask WordPress plugin leaves that address as it is, and adds no tour to your website's sitemap. So on WordPress, search results show your tours page, not each tour.
Your booking page hosted by TourTask
Your Independent booking URL, the booking page TourTask hosts for you, can show in search results in every language where you have not saved your own page under Activities page URL on your website. Where you have, TourTask hides its copy from search engines, so your own website ranks instead.
Questions we get asked
Yes. Links in the older form, with #/info/ in them, still open the right tour: those in e-mails already sent and on printed vouchers, for example.
Yes: there, each tour has a page of its own, listed in the website's sitemap. See Search engines and analytics.