Google Search vs Maps vs Google Travel: Where Your Vacation Rental Actually Appears
“Being on Google” is not one thing. Your rental business can appear in several distinct places, each fed by a different system, each with different rules. Owners who do not separate them end up optimising the wrong surface — chasing a Business Profile they cannot have while the channel that actually works sits unconnected. Here […]
Who Is Eligible for Google Vacation Rentals? Single Hosts vs Property Managers
Eligibility is the first gate, and it is the one that quietly wastes the most money. People buy software, migrate properties and build websites before discovering that their setup was never going to qualify. Ten minutes spent here saves months. What Google is looking for Google’s guidance points to two qualifying routes into the vacation […]
Vacation Rental Landing Page Requirements: What Google Checks Before Approving Your Listing
Google Vacation Rentals is a redirect channel. The listing shows a price and a photo, and then the traveller lands on your page — which means your landing page is doing two jobs at once. It has to satisfy Google’s review before you go live, and it has to convert a stranger afterwards. Most rejections […]
How to Get More Google Reviews for a Vacation Rental Without Breaking the Rules
Reviews are the closest thing to a universal currency in short-term rentals. They influence whether a traveller clicks, whether they book, and what you can charge. They also carry the highest risk of self-inflicted damage, because the tactics that look like shortcuts are the ones that get listings penalised. Here is how to build a […]
Best Google Business Profile Categories for Property Management Companies
Your primary category is the single most influential setting on a Google Business Profile. It determines which searches you are even considered for, which profile fields you get, and how Google classifies your business. Get it wrong and no amount of posting, photography or review-gathering compensates. For property management companies the choice is more consequential […]
Direct Booking vs OTA: The Real Math Behind Every Reservation
Everyone in short-term rentals agrees direct bookings are better. Very few have worked out by how much, which is why the shift never gets prioritised. So let us do the arithmetic properly. What an OTA booking actually costs The headline commission is only part of it. Host commission Deducted from your payout. Rates vary by […]
Local SEO for Vacation Rentals: The Complete Playbook
Local SEO for vacation rentals is different from local SEO for a plumber, and copying the plumber’s playbook is why most rental sites underperform. You cannot lean on a Business Profile, your customers are not local, and your competition includes platforms with enormous domain authority. What follows is the approach that actually works given those […]
Vacation Rental Google Business Profile Suspended? Causes and Recovery Steps
You logged in and the profile is gone, or marked suspended. Bookings from Maps have stopped. Before you fire off an appeal, it is worth understanding why this happens to rental properties specifically — because the answer changes what you should do next. Start with the uncomfortable question Was the profile eligible in the first […]
Do You Need a PMS or Channel Manager for Google Vacation Rentals?
Short answer: almost certainly yes, and this is not a preference — it is how the channel is built. Longer answer worth reading, because the choice you make here determines whether the whole project works, and switching later is expensive. Why software is mandatory Google Vacation Rentals has no manual listing interface. You cannot upload […]
9 Reasons Your Vacation Rental Isn’t Showing Up on Google
Your property is live, your rates are set, and Google shows everyone except you. Frustrating, but almost always diagnosable. The causes fall into a predictable order, and checking them in that order saves you from fixing the wrong thing. Work down this list. 1. Nothing is feeding your listing into Google This accounts for more […]