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Marketing a vacation home on the Internet can be daunting. It’s a maze out there on the World Wide Web with a confounding number of prices and features. Here is the lowdown on the most popular sites for marketing vacation homes for rent by owners nationwide.
Local Tourism and Chamber of Commerce Sites
Type in the names of cities and towns where the vacation rental is located. Usually the local tourism organization or the Chamber of Commerce (sometimes the same agency), appear first in the search engines. Potential renters most often research upcoming trips using terms based on the locale. In many markets it is worth the fee to register with these agencies. They typically have tremendous perks unavailable to outsiders, such as the opportunity to provide quotes for group travelers or business travelers staying for an extended amount of time. They do not provide the level of information that the following sites make available to users but allow links to personal sites.
The following websites receive the most visitors, according to Google Trends. They appear in order of traffic.
VRBO.com
Better known as Vacation Rentals by Owner, VRBO.com is a subsidiary of HomeAway, Inc that maintains its own database of listings. The homepage design is a basic listing of hotlinks to each state and a clickable map of the U.S. Registered owners have the option of enrolling in iTravex, a company that helps vacation homeowners trade stays with other owners based on a point system.
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Author: Rossi Giard
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