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Cruises and Discovery into the Delta

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This page is linked to /lib/on_page_seo.txt and can be edited and uploaded there for convenience.

If you do so, be sure to mdpull before editing off-line and to mdpush after.

This holds our strategy and choices for on-page SEO: keywords, description, the use of Open Graph etc. See also our hashtags (deprecated).

Technical note

We set HTML meta tags with a plugin (documentation)

/!\ On all the public pages, set metatag-robots=(index,follow), as the default is noindex,nofollow.

Don't declare an empty meta tag, as it would suppress a pre-existing meta tag from the page

This allows setting Open Graph tags for social media.

Target networks

  • Social media (posts, appearance) → open graph (primer)

Q: let's assess what social media we want to appear on: FB / Insta / LinkedIn / others ? and how much time and effort we want to put in there.

Keywords strategy

Questions

  • Do we want to raise visibility of the whole website, or focus searches specifically on some pages (e.g. tour: immersion in 3 days from Saigon)
  • Focus on 7 identified landing pages
  • set OpenGraph tags to manifest the relation between pages
  • Same question for each section (overnight, accommodation, daytime, tours)
  • Home page,
  • Bassac, –other pages in Bassac are linked with OpenGraph tags (to be defined)
  • Accommodation
  • Daytime: 3 services

* Gold & Green, as our best seller

	* Breakfast //or// Lunch to Phù Ly, as an alternative to the floating market
	* Breakfast to the floating market, as a high demand service
* Getaways -> FIXME page to be written and fleshed out
Mid-January 2025: we decide to equip all our main public pages with metatags, disregarding the keywords and description, but mentioning the og:description and other openGraph tags.

Meta tags for main pages

Each section below refers to a public page, and holds hidden meta tag code that will be included in the public page.

To access this code, include this section from the page where it belongs, e.g. for /en/2_mystic/1_cairang:

{{section>:admin:0-org:marketing:assets:web:on_page_seo#en2_mystic1_cairang&noheader}}
Please only edit them if you know what you are doing.

Be sure that an include in a public page refers correctly to the section here-under, else it will include the whole page.

  • If you update the section names here, update at once the page calling it
  • /!\ Notice how the section name in the calling page does not bear “:” or “/”,
    so :en:2_mystic:1_cairang is referred to as #en2_mystic1_cairang

Home page

:en:start

:fr:start

Bassac main page

:en:0_bassac:start

:fr:0_bassac:start

Accommodation

:en:1_nights:start

:fr:1_nights:start

Daytime cruises

:en:2_mystic:start

:fr:2_mystic:start

:en:2_mystic:1_cairang

:fr:2_mystic:1_cairang

:en:2_mystic:3_phuly

:fr:2_mystic:3_phuly

:en:2_mystic:4_lunch

:fr:2_mystic:4_lunch

:en:2_mystic:8_gold

:fr:2_mystic:8_gold

Getaways main page

:en:3_tours:start

:fr:3_tours:start

:en:3_tours:overnight_cruise

:fr:3_tours:overnight_cruise

:en:3_tours:immersion

:fr:3_tours:immersion

:en:3_tours:essentials

:fr:3_tours:essentials

Secondary pages: set the OpenGraph tags

Secondary pages are not the target / landing pages of ad campaigns.

They hold meta tags to help third party consumers (Google, Facebook, Linked In…) graph them with their respective relationships.

:en:0_bassac:1.0_charter

en:0_bassac:4.0_bassac

fr:0_bassac:4.0_bassac

en:0_bassac:4.2_bassac2

fr:0_bassac:4.2_bassac2

en:0_bassac:4.3_bassac3

fr:0_bassac:4.3_bassac3

Bassac itineraries

Which page should this be? Discovery? → yes, but rewriting so it is clear it encompasses CB-CT and CT-CB

/* no og:title og:type*/
{{htmlmetatags>
  metatag-robots=(index,follow)

  metatag-og:locale=(en_US)
  metatag-og:locale:alternate=(fr_FR, vi_VN)
 
  metatag-keywords=()
 
  metatag-description=()
  metatag-og:description=()

  metatag-og:image=()
  metatag-og:image:type=(image/jpeg)
  metatag-og:image:alt=()
}}

Bassac availability

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  metatag-robots=(index,follow)

  metatag-og:locale=(en_US)
  metatag-og:locale:alternate=(fr_FR, vi_VN)
 
  metatag-keywords=()
 
  metatag-description=()
  metatag-og:description=()

  metatag-og:image=()
  metatag-og:image:type=(image/jpeg)
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}}

the Bassac: construction

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  metatag-og:description=()

  metatag-og:image=()
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}}

the Bassac: history

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}}

:: Bassac II

The Bassac II at anchor on Măng Thít river

Experience the original Bassac,
designed and built according to tradition

The Bassac II was designed in-house by TransMékong to meet the demands of river discovery cruises. It harbors redundant propulsion and power generator; river water and waste water treatment, and a galley to serve up to 37.

With a large covered upper deck, a lounge and wide gangways, it is comfortable and can host a meal for the passengers of two ships. Access on board is broad and steady, and elderly or partly disabled passengers are safe.

Maximum 20 passengers
4 Twin, main deck, with private access and en suite bathroom
4 Double, main deck, with private access and en suite bathroom
2 Double, upper deck, with en suite bathroom

32m long, all wood, two passenger decks
Dining room and bar on the main deck
Lounge cum dining room on the upper deck
Shaded dining area on the rear upper deck
Sundeck on the front upper deck

Ship Bassac II
Flag Việt Nam
Class VR-SII river cruiser
Displacement 230 metric tons
Registered tonnage 237 GRT
Length overall 105' / 32m
Beam 25' / 7.80m
Draft 4'2" / 1.30m at half-load
Propulsion 2 x Cummins 6L, 12l atmospheric engines, 290BHP, 5000 hours per year
Navigation Can operate by night and in bad weather
Autonomy 7 days cruise
 
Power
Power production 2 x 35kVA
Standard 220V, 50Hz
Availability 24 hours a day
 
Water
Availability 24 hours a day
Stored water 12 metric tons
Source Automatic decantation and filtration system with UV lamp
  City water
 
Safety
Fire detection Smoke detectors in all cabins
Fire fighting Redundant pumping system, w/wo electrical power
  Fire hydrants, hoses and lances
  Fire extinguishers, ABC powder and CO2
Floatation devices Longboat, life vests, buoys w/wo lifeline
Last modified: 2025/01/24 09:24 [benoit] Copyright (c) 2014-2025 TransMékong 144 Hai Bà Trưng, QNK, Cần Thơ - 0903 033 148