I’ve collected all of my posts on Vacation Rental Website Design into one handy PDF document. You can download it here in exchange for an email address (I’ll also send you a few extra tips, and any updates that I create in the future).
I think this is a nice way to read all of these [...]

Is Twitter the answer for those missing bookings for your vacation rental? Maybe, but you need to use the right approach.
Now I’m not going to go on here about how you started using Twitter and immediately got sick of hearing about what people ate for breakfast. I’m assuming (hoping?) you’ve got over this stage already.
People [...]

It’s hard to find inspiration for your vacation rental website if you’re looking for new products for your customers or new stuff to show on your site. After all, you’ve only got your property to offer, right? Sometimes we miss the obvious stuff though.
Instead of trying to dream up brand new products or topics to [...]

If you’re a vacation rental property owner and you want to get bookings for your site then it’s certainly wise to promote your place on the internet. But should you build your own website? Why bother to go to all the hassle of designing your own website, coding it, promoting it and supporting it?
Surely it’s [...]

So What’s So Special About Vacation Rental Website Design?
Why write a whole section about it? Isn’t it just a case of building a website and adding some photos of your property?
Not really. There are some special things about vacation rental websites that make them different to other websites…
You’re selling something valuable. OK, there are lots [...]

How do you measure success in your email marketing campaign for your vacation rental website? Do you measure it with your unsubscribe rate? If you do, you may not be as successful as you think you are. In fact, you may be wasting time writing messages that your renters aren’t reading!
Email marketing is a great [...]

I’ve been thinking about SEO for vacation rental websites again. I know it’s a popular method for promoting your place, because it’s free, easy to do and pretty successful.
Or is it?
In case you haven’t heard, SEO stands for search engine optimization. It’s a technique for making your site appear prominently on the search engines (Google, [...]

I’ve been thinking about ways to keep my customers returning to my vacation rental websites. I’m 99% sure you’d agree this is a good thing to do. If people are returning to my site this means our place is staying fresh in their minds and we’ll increase the chances of them asking to stay with [...]

There’s a brand new Squeeze Guide available for vacation rental website owners. This builds on my original free guide, Squeeze More Results From Your Website, but adds a lot more focus on some of the issues that make vacation rental websites unique.
Speaking from experience, you might find:
- SEO is tough because you’re competing in a [...]

I caused an argument on the laymyhat vacation rental forum yesterday. I’m sorry – it’s my fault for trying to help! I suggested that owners should blog about interesting subjects around their property, including (but not limited to) funny stories about guests.
A couple of people took this the wrong way and said it was inappropriate [...]