Budget Center, a Las Vegas-based company seeking to leverage its portfolio of budget-oriented domains, launched hotel metasearch site BudgetHotels.com through a white-label affiliate agreement with Hotels Combined.
Budget Center is developing the following URLs: budgethotels.com, budgetairlines.com, budgetentertainment.com, budgetresorts.com, budgetravel.com, budgetskiing.com, budgetadventures.com, budgetcenter.com, budgetcharters.com, budget-cruise.com, budgetfishing.com and budgetinteractive.com.
Budget Center’s strategy is to launch these websites and build them through search engine optimization, search engine marketing and e-mail campaigns; develop an advertising/media business; and to strike affiiliate deals with travel websites.
Eventually, Budget Center wants to transition toward a merchant model for all its budget-oriented products.
Budget-permitting, that is.
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I don’t pretend to understand SEO all that well, but how can they rank up by just republishing a single widely available data feed?
They mention operating their own affiliate program. Why would another site want to split the BudgetHotels commission from HotelsCombined when they could get a bigger commission direct from HotelsCombined, bypassing at least one middleman?