SaaremaaEstonia.com content is created by the people of Saaremaa, Hiiumaa, Muhu, etc, all of whom can freely promote their business, activities and events here. We welcome site visitors and invite you to make direct contact with our local members through the contact links we provide.

• Up-to-date and self-published by islanders
• Content location is shown on an interactive map
• Comprehensive events calendar
• Map and photo gallery have powerful search filters
• Links in right sidebar are relevant to content viewed
• Comments are open for every page

Yes, SaaremaaEstonia.com is different in many ways:

* you can self-publish an unlimited number of pages
* you can promote any kind of business or non-profit activity for free
* you can create calendar event listings for free
* you can upload your own photos (up to 10MB per page, 1MB each image)
* you can embed videos
* your pages are added to the searchable map of Saaremaa
* your pages are search optimized automatically
* your pages are syndicated through RSS feeds in multiple languages
* you can buy advertising and connect with a focused audience who are interested in Saaremaa
* you can purchase translation, graphic design, website and promo video services

SaaremaaEstonia.com puts practical marketing tools into the hands of every business and individual in Saaremaa. We provide a free platform - the rest is up to you.

This website offers free* self-marketing opportunities for all Saaremaa enterprises, whether in tourism, services, or any other kind of business.

We have a lot of traffic on this website. Our audience is made up of people interested in Saaremaa, who are planning trips and reviewing options.

A local enterprise often loses business even before visitors arrive, because the trip planner did not know about the local business and what it offered and other arrangements were made.

This website creates better connections between Saaremaa businesses and the visitors & trip planners.

The readership of this website in a month is bigger than the readership of the annual Saaremaa catalog in a year.

This website gives maximum control of the content to the individual member/business. The site member can publish an unlimited number of pages to promote anything. The site is carefully designed to make the information easy to find for the site visitor.

Register and improve your self-marketing.
It is free* to join and publish.

*reasonable conditions apply

Saaremaa has a lot of events during the summer.
Both visitors and residents alike can benefit greatly from the existence of one comprehensive information source for these local public events.

Anyone with a Saarlane user account can add events to the calendar.
It will take you 2 minutes to publish a page about your event.

Upload photos to help illustrate your event, and mark its location on the map.
You can specify start and finish times and dates.
It is possible to create events spanning several days, and also repeating events.
Calendar events are also displayed and searchable on the map!

Publishing events to the calendar is free.

With a user account you can advertise your business and/or event for free.
Everyone in Saaremaa, business or individual, can publish content on the website.
You can share photos and information about Saaremaa.
Whatever you prefer to publish, it's free.

"Islander" is the main type of user account or "role" of registered users.

The Islander role is intended for local residents living on Saaremaa. The Islander role can be used by business or individuals. It is FREE, and you can publish content in any category.

Dear Member,

When you link to this website from your Facebook page, company website, personal blog, Twitter account, etc, then you help to improve the organic search result ranking of this website (which drives more traffic to members pages).

Thanks!

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LINK EXAMPLES

Example 1 (text link):
www.SaaremaaEstonia.com

Example 2 (image link):

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HTML CODE (copy/paste)

Example 1 (text link):
<a href="http://www.saaremaaestonia.com/" title="Saaremaa, Estonia, Saarenmaa, Viro, Сааремаа, Ösel" target="_blank">www.SaaremaaEstonia.com</a>

Example 2 (image link):
<a href="http://www.saaremaaestonia.com/" title="Saaremaa, Estonia, Saarenmaa, Viro, Сааремаа, Ösel"><img src="http://www.saaremaaestonia.com/sites/default/files/header-saaremaaestonia.jpg" alt="Saaremaa Estonia, Saarenmaa Viro, Сааремаа, Ösel" width="600" height="183" /></a>

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Log in - Click "Create" - Choose type of page you want to make - Fill boxes and Save.

Each user is responsible for their own content.
Please take care that your pages are displaying the correct language in each case.
Avoid publishing duplicate content.
Read and respect the Terms.

If you are having difficulty, contact the site admin.

Important note before you start: Every page you create must always refer to ONE geographical location - which you identify by adding a marker on the map. If you have information relevant to several different places that you want to share, please publish different new pages (with each page specific to one place).

Publishing, step by step
1. Make sure you are logged in.
2. Click the link create.
3. Click the relevant link for the category of new page you want to create.
4. Choose the language of the new page and write the title of the page.
(RECOMMENDED: if the page is commercial in nature, use your business name in the title of your page; if the page is more informational then use the location name (e.g. Tuhkana rand), or alternatively a brief descriptive name (suitable for personal recommendations like "The Best Pizza in Saaremaa!"). The title of your page is added to the url and increases your exposure to search engines.)
5. Choose your "Vocabularies" settings.
(If you do not know the place name, select "?" and the site will categorize it for you later. If the place name is not listed, please tell us and we will add it.)
6. Put your text in the body field.
(Do NOT include your email address here - we provide a special link for site visitors to contact you. Re. links: You can link to your website. "www.example.com" will become a link when you save the page. Please link back to SaaremaaEstonia.com from your website. )
7. Upload images (optional).
8. On the map, add a marker to show the exact location of whatever your page is describing.
The zoom is on the left side of the map. Use click-and-drag to move the map. Left-click to create a marker, drag on the marker to move it. Ignore Latitude and Longitude - they will autocomplete when you click on the map to place a marker. Please place your markers as exactly as possible - use the zoom.
9. Click "Preview" to check your page is OK and then "Save".

At the same time that your page is saved, it is auto-translated into the site's other languages (using Google Translate). The translations are meant as draft only and are not suitable for professional use. We highly recommend that you use our translation services.

Contact us via the email form on the right side.

• Javascript must enabled!
• Occasionally the maps service is simply unavailable from Google. In this case you will see a map of Estonia with no markers. There is nothing to do but try again later.
• If you get an error message (in red) then please notify admin.
• Other tips follow:

May help with map problems:

Google Chrome Frame for IE8*
http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/

Internet Explorer*
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=21849

Firefox*
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=18529

Alternative browsers:

Chrome*
http://www.google.com/chrome

Opera*
http://www.opera.com/

Firefox*
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

*Information is in English

You may need to resize your images before you can upload.
Max size for each image is 1MB.
Total per page is 10MB.
There are many ways to resize images e.g.
Irfanview (light, simple, fast and easy)
Picasa (Google product)