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Find your vacation rental niche market!

April 30, 2022 by ddshears

A powerful secret weapon for attracting more bookings is to carve out your unique niche and weave that into your marketing strategy & website content. One example is for vacation rentals that are pet friendly. Check out a previous article  featuring this niche market. Other examples include: Farm stays Glamping (glamorous camping) Wheelchair accessible Adventure…

Filed Under: Blog, Niche Markets, Uncategorized

Organic SEO tips for YouTube

April 30, 2022 by ddshears

Everyone wants to rank well on Google but do you realize that YouTube is the second largest search engine? Not only can you start spicing up your website blog posts with your own original videos but the real cheddar is the traffic that YouTube can bring to your website! To start out you do not…

Filed Under: Blog, SEO, Uncategorized

OwnerRez: An exceptional, affordable, easy-to-use booking solution

April 30, 2022 by ddshears

WE LOVE OwnerRez One of the important parts of the “listing site independence” equation is having a reliable and robust booking solution with amazing tech support. Especially one that is relatively easy to set up and learn if you are new to owning your own website and taking bookings outside of the listing sites. As…

Filed Under: Blog, Booking Solutions, Uncategorized, Wordpress

Google Analytics is going away!

April 30, 2022 by ddshears

Well, more specifically, the original Universal Google Analytics is being phased out and replaced with Google Analytics 4. This will effect everyone who’s using Google Analytics to monitor website traffic. On all sites built by RedSpiralHand you will find your web stats displayed in your WordPress dashboard via the Monster Insights plugin. If MonsterInsights is…

Filed Under: Analytics, Blog, NEWS, SEO, Uncategorized, Wordpress

STORYTIME: When the unthinkable happens

April 29, 2022 by ddshears

nce upon a time… There was a very talented food blogger who was passionate about developing delicious recipes and sharing them with the world. She even took the time to take classes to learn to style and properly photograph her creations to make her blog posts more engaging. Her website was a labor of love.…

Filed Under: Blog, Hosting Services, Mini Case Studies, Storytime, Uncategorized, Wordpress

Premium WordPress websites from RedSpiralHand

April 28, 2022 by ddshears

Built to Last! Our professional-level, mobile-first, business websites are built with the Genesis framework over WordPress. The Genesis framework is highly acclaimed, even by developers at WordPress! Using Genesis makes your website more highly configurable so it’s not difficult or time-consuming to update your layouts and style. All customizations are handled in a child theme…

Filed Under: Blog, Wordpress

VR niche markets: Increase bookings by going dog-friendly

June 2, 2021 by ddshears

We encourage all vacation rental businesses to research and explore potential niche market opportunities. Many have found sweet-spots identifying as farm-stays, glamping stays, by focusing on accessibility for guests with mobility challenges, etc. Going dog-friendly with your properties is one sure-fire way to expand your audience to a whole new realm of potential guests that…

Filed Under: Blog, Niche Markets

Giving Back: a win-win for vacation rental businesses and their communities

May 27, 2021 by ddshears

Why Give Back? Like it or not none of us live or run our businesses in a bubble. We all have impacts on the communities we live and work in…some positive and some not as positive. And all communities and locales have challenges whether it be homelessness, poverty, hunger, trash on the roadsides and beaches…

Filed Under: Blog

Your website has a carbon footprint!

May 27, 2021 by ddshears

What is web hosting? All websites must “live” on a special computer system called a “server” that allows the website files to be accessed via the internet. This is the same for every website in the entire world and also other data sites including social media sites, email and cloud storage services like Google Drive.…

Filed Under: Blog

Hostfully Features Papagayo Luxury

December 22, 2020 by ddshears

RedSpiralHand has been integrating Hostfully with websites more frequently and are happy to say that they have continued to evolve and  improve and refine their booking sites and widgets’ functionality and design. In September we participated in beta testing their new booking site features prior to the official rollout and were  able to use the…

Filed Under: Blog, Uncategorized

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