Travel SEO for operators who would rather keep the commission
For one US travel business, Rankure charges $599, $1,094 or $2,196 a month (UK and UAE quoted) for itinerary, tour and destination pages written from first-hand detail, a Google Business Profile for each staffed office or meeting point, and content published months before travellers start planning. Month-to-month, no setup fee.
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The travel planning window
Planned months ahead. Booked in minutes.
- InspirationDestination pagesWhere should we go?
- PlanningItinerary pagesHow many days, what to see.
- BookingYour own siteNo marketplace cut.
Rankure travel SEOFrom $599
Which level fits?Prepay the build-up months if you like.
- $599 to $2,196 a monthOne business
- A season earlyPages live before research starts
- First-hand detailWhat a marketplace listing cannot say
- Month-to-month30 days written notice
Does your booking calendar look like this?
- 1
Most bookings arrive through a platform that keeps a cut
The traveller found you on the marketplace, so the marketplace gets paid every time.
- 2
Your best trip has one thin page
The itinerary you are proudest of is a paragraph and a price. Nobody searching for it can find it.
- 3
Content goes up when the season does
By then travellers made their shortlist weeks ago, from whoever was already there.
- 4
Reviews live everywhere except where people decide
Glowing feedback sits in an inbox while the Maps listing shows eleven reviews from 2023.
Why fighting aggregators head-on burns the budget
The usual first move is to chase the big phrase: "tours in Lisbon", "safari holidays", "things to do in Cusco". Those searches belong to booking platforms and review sites with millions of pages and years of links. A small operator can spend a year there and still sit on page three.
Google says "Relevance is how well a Business Profile matches what someone is searching for" (Google Business Profile Help, checked 25 October 2026), and the same logic holds on the website. The searches an operator can win are the narrower ones the platforms answer badly: a specific route, a trip style, a question only someone who has walked the trail can answer properly. "Four days on the Lares trek with kids" is a page a marketplace will never write well. You can, because you have been there.
The second trap is timing. Travel is researched long before it is booked, so a page written in peak season is written for next year.
Direct bookings from the trips only you can describe
Every tour and itinerary gets its own page. Each is written from your guides' knowledge and your own photographs, structured so search engines and AI assistants can lift the facts cleanly. Destination guides that catch travellers while they are still deciding where to go. A profile for each office or meeting point, with reviews asked for after every trip and answered. All of it published ahead of the months your travellers start planning, and a monthly report of calls, enquiries and rankings, so you can watch the direct share grow.
We have no published travel case yet, so the first report is your baseline, and every month after is measured against it.
Three sizes of travel business, three levels
The statement of work lists every deliverable before you start; the levels themselves are on local SEO pricing.
| Level | Monthly | Usually fits | Where the work goes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $599 | A walking-tour company in one city | Meeting-point profile and reviews, tour pages tightened, a set of answered traveller questions |
| Growth | $1,094 | A specialist running trips in several countries | New itinerary and destination pages each month, timed to the season, plus local links |
| Authority | $2,196 | An agency up against the big platforms | Long-form destination guides, authority links and AI search work |
How we would scope each, not results from real operators.
Worries worth settling first
- We are seasonal. Do we pay all year?No. Plans are month-to-month: start ahead of your planning window and stop with 30 days written notice when it closes. Prepaying 3 months saves 5%.
- Can you beat the big booking sites?Rarely on broad phrases. Often on specific trips and questions, which is where direct bookings usually come from.
- Do we need a Google Business Profile?If you have an office or meeting point staffed at stated hours, yes. If you do not, we focus on the website.
- Who writes the trip details?We draft from your notes, guides and photos. Nothing goes live without your sign-off.
- Can you promise we will outrank the booking sites?No. Google controls rankings. Each month you see which trip pages gained ground and the enquiries they brought.
Start before your travellers do
Written findings within one business day, at no cost.
- Which of your tours and destinations can be found today
- Where a marketplace is taking the search instead of you
- The level that fits, and which pages to publish first for next season
Rather talk first? (844) 677-1981
Where do your bookings come from today?
Send your website. Within one business day Joe checks which of your tours and destinations can be found, which a marketplace owns, and which level fits.
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Ahead of next season
- Day 1
Free audit
What is found, what a platform owns, and the level that fits.
- Month 1
Foundation
Profiles, structured data and the trips that earn most rebuilt first.
- Months 2 and 3
Season pages
Itineraries and destinations for the next season, published early.
- Every month
Direct-booking report
Calls, enquiries and rankings, against day one.
Prices and facts verified · Reviewed by the Rankure team · Next review November 2026