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Why should I advertise my vacation rental with VacationRentalDirect.com?
- Exposure - The ONLY reason to advertise on VacationRentalDirect.com is to increase exposure for your rental property. The image below is updated every three months and is meant to show that the site is progressively getting more and more traffic.
Increased Traffic = Increased Exposure = More Inquiries = MORE BUSINESS!
- Pricing - VacationRentalDirect.com charges a flat $50 fee per year per listing. Most of our competitors charge $100 to $170 per year.
- Features - We keep it simple and let you upload an unlimited number of pictures. In addition we let you list any sort of rental property - whether it be a resort, hotel, yacht, B&B, condo, cottage, cabin, castle, etc. In the future we will be offering property owners the ability to upload videos as well, all at no extra cost.
Of course, we currently offer statistics to track inquiries, page views and visits to your personal website. Many vacation rental sites do not let users link to their personal website, or they charge an extra fee for that feature. We feel that your website is the best place for prospective guests to get the most up to date information on your rental. We simply track the number of people of that click through to your website and report on that statistic to you every day.
- Search Engine Rankings - Search engine rankings vary from day to day. There are thousands of vacation rental sites on the Internet, all compete for the largest search terms. The largest terms are "Vacation Rentals", "Vacation Homes" and "Beach Homes". In Europe, "Holiday Rentals" is a big search term. Google is the primary search engine. It is most important to rank well on Google first, then pursue the small search engines like Yahoo and MSN.
VacationRentalDirect.com ranks #3 for term "Vacation Rentals" on Google
VacationRentalDirect.com ranks #2 for term "Vacation Homes " on Google
VacationRentalDirect.com ranks #4 for term "Beach Homes " on Google
That's pretty impressive. However, our next challenge is ranking in the top 5 for all of the thousands of smaller regional search terms. Ranking well for the smaller search terms takes many years of hard work and patience. The good news is that if you rank well for the large terms, which we do, than it is only a matter of time before we begin to dominate in the smaller terms as well!!!
- The Future - Perhaps one of the better reasons to list with VacationRentalDirect.com is what we are going to give away for free to all current members. In the next six months we will be launching a free flash marketing brochure platform for all vacationrentaldirect.com members. This will only be free to members who sign up before the launch. All members after the launch will be required to pay upwards of $100 per brochure. It will be a very cool new tool that you can use on your personal website, blog or other vacation rental sites to promote your property.
Additionally, we are authoring a comprehensive ebook on how to manage, market and operate a succesful vacation rental. This ebook will coverall all the online and offline strategies that can and should be used to fill up your vacation rental every year. This ebook will also be free to all current members ONLY at the time of launch.