Sometimes words and pictures just aren’t enough to communicate to potential guests exactly what’s on offer when staying at your holiday rental. Owning and maintaining your own website is essential, but it’s worth considering other online marketing tools which are available to help you get your message across. If you have your own holiday rental [Continue reading …]
Show your website in different languages with our new custom translations feature
For those of you lucky enough to be able to speak multiple languages, we’re excited to announce the addition of our Custom Translations feature. This enables you to write your own translations for every page of your website, rather than use the Google Translate Widget. Simply enable the Custom Translations feature in section 8 of [Continue reading …]
Which Holiday Rental Listing Sites Should You Advertise On?
The choice of holiday rental listing sites is huge and getting bigger all the time. With so many different sites to choose from how do you know which ones will work for you? The truth is it depends on your property and its location. You’ll need to discover for yourself which ones work for your [Continue reading …]
Using Email to Keep In Touch with Past Guests and Encourage Repeat Bookings
Once a customer has chosen your holiday rental property it’s important to try and ensure they are completely satisfied with the experience. Excellent customer service is vital in order to increase the chances of repeat bookings, in addition to encouraging word of mouth recommendations to their friends and relatives. Repeat bookings are a fantastic source [Continue reading …]
Using Twitter to Promote Your Holiday Rental
Tweeting for SEO When used correctly Twitter can be ideal for promoting a business and this includes holiday rentals. Using a small ‘Tweet’ you can entice your followers into clicking on a link which leads right back to your website. This is a form of back linking which plays a very important role in search [Continue reading …]
Use Facebook Business Pages to Market your Holiday Rental
If you want to reach out to a wider community and spread the word about your holiday rental accommodation you should consider setting up a Facebook business page. Pages are different to your profile and have several benefits which make them a powerful marketing tool. Setting up the page is simple and running the administration [Continue reading …]
The Benefits of Blogging for Holiday Rental Owners
If you earn an income through holiday rentals you will already know how important it is to advertise. In the digital era there are now multiple ways of marketing which can be easily used to promote your rental. You may be aiming to encourage past customers to come back or attract a whole new clientele. [Continue reading …]
Social Networking to Market your Holiday Rental
Staying up to date with the latest marketing trends is as important to holiday rentals as it is to any business. If you are looking to promote your holiday rental, attract new and returning customers and generally increase your online presence social networking is a great way to do this. When you combine social networking [Continue reading …]
Measuring the success of your SEO efforts
So, you’ve put lots of time and effort in to building and marketing your holiday rental website – how do you measure its success? First, you need to make sure Google knows you exist. It sounds obvious, but you’d be surprised at the number of people that do months of work before even checking to [Continue reading …]
Some great new features and a fantastic new template
We’ve added some great new features to PromoteMyPlace, making it even easier for you to create a fully functional, professional looking website to market your holiday rental accommodation online. See our latest newsletter for details. If you’d like to receive this newsletter by email in future, subscribe to our email list