Author Archives: Dave

Tignes New Year Accommodation

Just had a last minute drop out for my apartment in Tignes, meaning that we have last minute availability for New Year in Tignes. If you’re looking for new year accommodation in Tignes, drop me a line ASAP and make me an offer: it’s usually around £2500 for the week, but at this stage we’re [...]
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Free, targeted traffic from Google Local Search

Are you missing out on free traffic to your website from Google Local Search? It’s an area that is often overlooked, but one that can generate a lot of bookings for your holiday rental website. Recently Google started showing local business search results at the top of some search queries (although working out which queries they [...]
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Wordpress Tutorial 8: Making your availability calendar

Most rental properties have (at least one) availability calendar, and my preferred method for showing availability on your Wordpress website is to embed a Google Calendar. It’s free, it’s simple, and it looks good. To put the Google calendar in your website, you need to create the calendars and email me the code to insert [...]
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Wordpress Tutorial 7: Getting your Google Map code

One of the things nearly all my websites feature is a map, and Google very kindly gives you the ability to make your own custom map, which can then be embedded directly within the page. You can see a demo here. If your location is particularly remote, it’s sometimes a problem for me to find exactly [...]
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