Welcome back to our Yangshuo News  E-zine. The last weeks have been very hard for all people in China. Sichuan suffered the earthquake, south China has the annual rainfall which is heavier then ever, see our post in the newsletter for more info.

The Yangshuo website is now almost finished with a new layout. Did I say finished? A website is never finished! If you have a story to tell, please use the form and add your own experience in Yangshuo to our website:

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/yangshuo-travel-stories.html#You

What do we have in this second edition of our newsletter?

• Yangshuo flooded
• Yangshuo Tours Summer Update
• New Yangshuo stories
• Advertisement: Timeshare
• First Aid Kit
• Advertise on Yangshuo Travel Guide.com
• Summer Sandals 2 packages for $100 more
• Cycling from Liuzhou to Yangshuo

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Yangshuo Floods
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The last weeks Yangshuo has been tortured, I can not think of any other word, by the heavy rains. As a result the swollen rivers went to far inside the Yangshuo town center. For those who know the town, the water was up to the bus station.

We received some photos, which are on this page:

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/yangshuo-rainy-season.html

So, how is the weather right now? It's June 20, 9AM when I write this and the weather at this moment is cloudy but dry with a temperature of 25C/77F.

Keep an eye on the weather if you come to Yangshuo:

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/yangshuo-weather.html

And we got this touching story send to us, we did not want to hold back from you. It's about the Sichuan earthquake:

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/sichuan-earthquake.html

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Yangshuo Tours Summer Update
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Jessie Lu, our tour operator and guide informed me that because of the school holidays, there are no voluntary teachings to be organized in the schools. Later in August and September we can include the teachings again.

Here's more about what Jessie offers. And if you think there are not tours possible, Jessie informed us too. All the tours booked will continue.

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/yangshuo-tour.html

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New Yangshuo stories
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Just before the rains JoAnn Christy did a tour with Jessie, here's her recommendation:

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/joann-christy.html

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First Aid Kit
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Traveler always ask, do I need to bring a first aid kit and if yes, what does it have to contain? Answering that question we decided to put it on the website with a good selection of what we ourselves take with us.

Please remember, in Yangshuo the pharmacies will be able to refill your first aid kit, if necessary.

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/first-aid-kit.html

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Advertise on Yangshuo Travel Guide.com
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Advertising can be expensive. Our Yangshuo website gives you now the option to advertise for a very reasonable price.  You have different choices how to advertise. You can even advertise in this newsletter! We would like to do business with Yangshuo, Guilin, China businesses or related to the travel business in general. Read more here:

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/advertise.html

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Summer Sandals 2 packages for $100 more
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To be honest with you, I see plenty of websites that potentially look interesting and then you browse further and...then you find hardly any content. Why is that? Do these webmaster think you, the reader is not further interested? How about photos? I have a friend who is very visual orientated. He always says a photo (or video) says more then 1000 words. And of course he is right. So his website is jam-packed with photos alone! But once you have seen the photos, would you go back? Especially if they load slow? If photos is what you need, use Flickr or any other photo page service.

We at Yangshuo Travel Guide believe a good mix of photos and content makes the reader coming back. Photos illustrate the text. But how do you bring people to your site? Wait until Google has the desire to list and index your website? Keep waiting. Unless you tell Google or any other Search Engine, your website exists, they will not (or by accident) come around.

So we started looking how to solve that problem. However, we are not very interested in all kinds of techs. All we want is write and tell stories and have a system that does the rest. Obviously free websites were not an option. So we checked hosting. But whatever we looked, it seemed to be a problem of more tech until we found a system that seemed to take the tech out of our hands.

The system was based on writing content and let them do the tech in the background. We were unsure but we found a results page of other websites build with this system that looked pretty cool:

http://results.sitesell.com/webselling64290.html

But results are nice, I needed some more proof and found it:

http://proof.sitesell.com/webselling64290.html

Now I am not an html writer so I need to work as simple as possible. This system provided and showed quickly results.

Now, more then a year after we started, we have reworked and revamped the Yangshuo Travel Guide and we are working on adding more content based on the concept of this system: CTPM.

CTPM? Yes, it stands for Content - Traffic - Pre-sell - Monetizing

And it works!

We have a whole page about how this process exactly works, feel free to read it:

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/complete_site_build_it.html

So, here's the deal, two packages for only $100 more

http://order.sitesell.com/webselling64290.html

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Cycling from Liuzhou to Yangshuo
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A much overlooked area in Yangshuo is the road from Yangshuo to Liuzhou. Most travelers do not even make it further south from Yangshuo then Moonhill. But there's more. Here's my own story about the Liuzhou-Yangshuo road

http://www.yangshuo-travel-guide.com/liuzhou-to-yangshuo.html

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