Travel Cost Calculator MVP
For the last couple of months I've been working in earnest on a pet project I started a few years ago. The concept is a travel-cost calculator for specific countries and cities, divided into categories, with high and low estimates. I finally have an MVP worth sharing and I'm excited to get some feedback.
Here's the landing page:
https://value.baby/travel/
I'm happy to get into any technical questions about the data or calculations, but I also want to make sure I've communicated my SEO strategy for feedback. I have some thoughts about longer-term monetization, but initially I just want to start getting some SEO attention so I can serve up some ads in the near future.
To accomplish this at scale, I'm using PHP and MYSql to "personalize" the country-specific pages for keyword seeding. Some attributes, like food, are truly specific to the country, whereas other attributes, like the calculated costs, just use the country name along with cost estimates for more general expenses. As an example of the more "general" keyword seeding, on the Oman page below, the text under the "Tours" activities toward the bottom of the page will say "You're on tour in Oman, baby!", whereas the top bulletpoint is specific to "shuwa", a type of Omani food. Right now I have about 120 country-specific pages serving up content.
I would like some general feedback about the calculator, and suggestions for what to focus on next (more value-add functions, more personalization, user accounts to remember preferences?) I'd also LOVE some specific feedback on my SEO strategy. I'm really excited about the idea of using PHP and calculated datapoints to quickly produce massive amounts of individualized webpages to get Google's attention, but I'm not sure how realistic this is. If you have an opinion or experience with whether this could fly in its current format, if I need to add more personalization details, or whether I need to drastically re-think the model, please share.
Example of a country-specific page for SEO:
https://value.baby/travel/oman
Thanks in advance for taking a look!
I'll definitely use this service from now on to plan my trips. I found out that it's not really expensive to live in Moscow for a week if I'm planning to live in a hostel. I think $300 for a week is a fair price if I h=want to have a great vacation. I've already applied for a visa, and I hope it won't take me long to get it. I'm glad there are many russia-travel visa services where I can make an online application for russian tourist visa, and it wasn't really pricy for me. And hopefully, your calculator is right and $300 will be enough for me.
The number at the end, is that per person or what
It's the cost for two adults. When you select your preferences the last selection is the number of people, adult and child, plus the number of days. I selected two adults and no kids as default.
Edit to my original response.