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…
Organic SEO tips for YouTube
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…
OwnerRez: An exceptional, affordable, easy-to-use booking solution
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…
Google Analytics is going away!
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…
STORYTIME: When the unthinkable happens
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.…
Premium WordPress websites from RedSpiralHand
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…
VR niche markets: Increase bookings by going dog-friendly
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…
Giving Back: a win-win for vacation rental businesses and their communities
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…
Your website has a carbon footprint!
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.…
Hostfully Features Papagayo Luxury
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…
