Category Archives: Marketing Your Gite Website

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 DO show for is tricky… compare these two searches on Google: Read More »

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Google Ranking for £99 / Month: rip-off?

I’m hearing a lot of customers in the Holiday Rental market talking about a service being offered by companies in the UK whereby they ‘guarantee’ that your site will be found in Google against 2 specific search terms relevant to your business for just £99 per month.

In my opinion, this is a rip off. The company is taking a great (Pay Per Click) product, Google Adwords,  and turning it into a crap one (Pay Irrespective of Clicks). So if the search terms you ‘choose’ get no clicks at all, the company involved pockets the whole £99. They’re preying on people’s fear of technology, and must be making huge profits in doing so. Read More »

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Free Gite and French Cottage Advertising

Sometimes, you can’t give it away. Since the launch of Rent a Gite in France, I’ve spent a lot of time optimising the Wordpress theme it uses to make it as search engine friendly as possible. The site offers free gite advertising to owners of french rental accommodation. As a result of the SEO, I’m getting a load of traffic to it through search engines.

Ironically, I’m struggling to get gite and cottage owners to advertise their properties on there, it’s nothing more than a dribble each week in terms of new properties added, despite the gites who are listed reporting getting enquiries and bookings through the site. Read More »

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New service: multi-lingual websites

flagsGiven Sterling’s recent weakness against the Euro, holiday rental owners in the Eurozone have been increasingly keen this year to look to other Eurozone members for guests.

Increasingly I’ve been asked whether I can build multi-lingual websites, and whether I can source the translations for these sites.

The answer to both questions is “yes”.

It doesn’t need to cost a fortune, but adding foreign language pages to your website will make prospective guests feel more welcome from the outset, potentially save you from difficult telephone Q&A’s, and also help you to rank more highly in the local search results for those countries.

If you’re interested, check out the multi-lingual web design package I’ve put together and then get in touch!

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