3 Tips To Focus On For Vacation Rental SEO

3 Tips To Focus On For Vacation Rental SEO

When you are looking for the highest ROI for your vacation rental, SEO, should be your top priority. Effective SEO will help you get a regular supply of affluent travelers who may have never heard of you before but are interested in staying at places like yours. SEO is one of the most complex marketing strategies, so to avoid any mystery, we are going to give you 3 tips to focus on for your Vacation Rental SEO strategy.

Tip 1: Utilize Tools to Track the Success of Your Goals

Setting goals for your property should already be a given, but to make these goals successful, you will need to implement tools to help you make it to your finish line. An example goal to track via SEO would be to boost your direct bookings. Check out how Google Analytics, an effective CRM, and Conversion tools can help you track success for direct bookings.

Google Analytics (FREE!)

Properly setting up your Google Analytics account will assist in tracking eCommerce conversions on your site. If you are utilizing a third party booking platform, you’ll have to work with them on this as well.

Conversion Tracking

Getting people to your website is one thing, keeping them there is another. Using Google Analytics you are able to understand how people land on your site, where they explore your site, and when they convert.

An Effective CRM

When you implement an effective CRM you are able to keep phone call data and record on guest calls that come from your website. Creating relationships with your guests and utilizing lead management of a CRM, will help close more bookings, adding on to your goal.

These measurements are part of Google’s algorithm in search engine placement. Keeping someone interactive on your site and converting helps your placement score.

Tip 2: Setup Your Page For Visitors to Interact

When visitors arrive at your website, you want it to be equivalent to inviting guests into your house. A nice welcome greeting, easy navigation, and a good host. One of Google’s and other search engines top priorities is to provide the best answers with relevant content to the asked question. When Google is successful, people will continue to use their search engine.

Keep in mind you want it to be easy to navigate regardless of how the visitor enters, they can find exactly what they need to find and quickly. This means making your pages very specific and focused. If your goal is to drive direct bookings here are some page ideas you want:

  • Accommodation or room pages
  • Vacation Rental Unit Pages
  • Pages of Specials and Packages

Tip 3: Site Speed is Impactful

It may seem like common sense that a faster loading site is more user-friendly, attractive to the visitor, and less frustrating, but the results that are affected by the site speed is astronomical. According to Amazon, a page that loads just one second slower had lost sales of $1.6 Billion. One second can mean that much? It can! The best practice to focus on is staying under that 2 second mark, and being quicker than the competitor.

You’re not only competing with the competitor across the street when it comes to SEO, you need to keep in mind that OTA’s are the king of SEO. Heck, it’s their job to get the most traffic to their sites, so if you can beat them in SEO, you’ve got it mastered.

If you’re questioning your site speed, let me give you access to this free tool of Google Page Speed Test.  

That’s a Wrap on SEO

After reading this you should be able to define your property goals and understand that SEO inevitably will play a large factor in successfully achieving those goals. Learn about Google’s Ranking Algorithm and implement best practices for your website to perform.

If you need:

  • Help reviewing your Google Analytics Account
  • A Lead Management Software
  • Help navigating your OTA’s vs Direct Bookings
  • Questions on building a quality Website

Be sure to set up a time to meet with our Digital Marketing Experts!