Your .barcelona domain takes no holidays, but you do!

The summer is here, bringing with it the temptation to lower our digital shutters a little. Rhythms change and teams are smaller as people take holidays. Yet SEO does not go on holiday, search engines continue to index sites, users continue to look for content and the competition keeps on working.

Don’t fret! The good news is that with a little planning, your .barcelona site can keep working while you relax.

1. Schedule content before you leave

SEO thrives on regularity. If you stop posting content for a few weeks, search engines don’t know this and when you come back in September, perhaps the competition has got ahead of you.

The key is simple: create more content in the spring months and schedule content ahead. You might not be around, but your content is still there. 

2. Use August as an opportunity

If you’ve got less work that usual, it’s the perfect time for tasks that always get put off:

  • Update obsolete content: check old posts, check that links work and update any information that has changed.
  • Optimise content for AI: implement metadata and check your content is well-structured for AI systems.
  • Plan the autumn: which content do you want to publish when you come back from your holiday? Get ahead with this so that you have an advantage when the time comes.

3. Adapt your website to the summer reality

If your company changes the way it works in the summer, the website needs to reflect this:

  • Update customer service times and keep them visible.
  • Prepare automatic replies that indicate response times. 
  • If you offer summer discounts, give them visibility with a pop-up or a banner.
  • Redirect users to social media if this is where you keep your information up to date more frequently.

4. Think about mobile formats

In the summer, people use their mobile phones to look for information: from the beach, from their balconies, the airport or the train. Make sure your .barcelona is visible and working properly in small-screen format.

5. Create light and different content

The summer is a good excuse to move out of your comfort zone. Try formats that you don’t normally use. Assess the reaction that these new resources get and remember that in the summer you’ve got a bit more leeway to experiment. 

Relax, you’ve earned it. But leave your .barcelona domain ready to work!

Bring your business, organisation or project to life with a .barcelona domain! Register it here. 

Your city, your .barcelona

Naturally, everything changes. And recent years have seen Barcelona become transformed to adapt to people that live here or experience the city in some way.

It’s ten years since the city started to have its own domain, .barcelona.

Having its own domain means having its own real space on the internet, a place that belongs to you, that bears your name and that identifies you.

The .barcelona domain is the way that people in Barcelona have of existing on the internet: of having our own place, of being able to show what we do every day and offering everybody a window to see it. From anywhere in the world, from any device and at any time.

And that’s no small thing, internet is a vast space, much of it unknown and full or noise, where it’s increasing more difficult to stand out. Yet there is a way to say who you are and where you come from right from the start: with your own .barcelona domain.

The .barcelona domain says it all:

It indicates a geoterritorial location that everyone recognises, people and search engines alike: Barcelona.

It shows that your business is linked to Barcelona’s values: a cosmopolitan city, welcoming and full of people, with plenty of sunshine, a Mediterranean diet and a great atmosphere.

It indicates a genuine project, with personality. Whether you run a business, form part of the social sector, manage a cultural space or are developing your own personal project, there is room for all this under .barcelona.

The domain has become a brand for our part of the world, a recognisable address, which thousands of people in Barcelona have chosen to exist online.

Barcelona is changing. The internet is changing. But the .barcelona domain continues, growing with the city.

Register your .barcelona domain now.