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Link Building

Making the Link to Santa Cruz County

The Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitor's Council has an opportunity for our partners to make it easier for your website visitors to learn more about the county - while you help promote the community! By featuring a hyper-link from your home page to the CVC website www.santacruz.org, information can be literally found at one's fingertips.

2010 Fall Festival Campaign
The Fall Festival Series campaign is a new effort supported by Tourism Marketing District funding. The theme focuses on enticing visitors to return to Santa Cruz County's Fall Festival Series during the "Secret Summer" season. The CVC is asking partners to play an active role in our fall community campaign by placing the image below on your website and linking it to www.santacruzcounty.travel/events/index.php. Other promotional materials, including postcards to distribute and a flyer to post are also available. For more information, please call 831.429.7281 x102. Have a busy Secret Summer!

Fall Festival Link:

Secret Summer

Why Create a Link From Your Web site to www.santacruz.org?

  • By offering your customers free information services, you'll save valuable staff time
  • By linking to www.santacruz.org, visitors can order their free Official Traveler's Guide directly
  • Creating reciprocal links can boost search results placement

If you already have links to www.santacruz.org:

  • Please replace your existing image links with those below. Our new graphics and link code will bring your links up to date.
  • Our recent redesign has resulted in pages being moved, renamed or deleted from the site. PLEASE CHECK any other existing links to us on your site, and ensure that they are sending users to a valid page or file.

How to Create a Link from Your Web Site to www.santacruz.org:
Whether you or your web master will be adding the link to your site, simply follow the directions below.

Text Links:
Add a line of text encouraging visitors to your site to click for visitor information or to Request a Free Traveler's Guide and link it to http://www.santacruz.org. Or, link directly to one of our community information pages. Options include Santa Cruz, Capitola/Soquel, Watsonville, Aptos, Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley.

Image Links:

       
  1. Right-click with your mouse to download the image you want
  2. Link to http://www.santacruz.org

Or, simply copy and add this code to your web page:

DARK BLUE SQUARE:
<a href="http://www.santacruz.org" onClick="window.open('http://www.santacruz.org', 'myWin', 'toolbar=yes, resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, width=500, height=500, top=150, left=100'); return false" > <img src="http://www.santacruz.org/images/content/traveler-guide-logo.jpg" border="0" alt="Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council"></a>

HORIZONTAL BAR:
<a href="http://www.santacruz.org" onClick="window.open('http://www.santacruz.org', 'myWin', 'toolbar=yes, resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, width=500, height=500, top=150, left=100'); return false" > <img src="http://www.santacruz.org/images/content/visitor-information-logo.jpg" border="0" alt="Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council"></a>

This code will point directly to a graphic and page on the CVC site requiring no downloading or image storage on your part. The link includes a javascript to ensure that our site will open in a small new window. If your users do NOT have javascript enabled, the site will open in a full-size new window.

Click on the images above to see how the link will work.

Please call 831.425.1234 or email Beth LaBreche, blabreche@santacruz.org, for help or more information.

Guidelines and Usage:

  1. You may only display the Santa Cruz County Conference and Visitors Council (SCCCVC) graphic on your web site, and not in any other manner. It must always be an active link to the official web site.
  2. You may not alter the SCCCVC graphic in any manner, including size, proportions, colors, elements, etc., or animate, morph, or otherwise distort its perspective or appearance.
  3. Your use may not be obscene or pornographic, and may not be disparaging, defamatory, or libelous to the SCCCVC, any of its products, or any other person or entity. You may not link to santacruzca.org from a web site that is obscene or pornographic, or disparaging, defamatory, or libelous to the SCCCVC.
  4. You may not present false or misleading information about the SCCCVC.
  5. These guidelines do not grant permission to use any other SCCCVC logos or trademarks. The SCCCVC reserves the right in its sole discretion to terminate or modify your permission to display the Web logo at any time. If your use meets the above criteria, no further written permission is required and you may download the image.