RedSpiralHand client, Stay at 30A Vacation Rentals was named, “Best Boutique Vacation Rental Company”, as one of the 2024 winners of Walton County Tourism's, "Perfect in Walton County Awards". The annual award winners are nominated and voted upon by … [Read more...]
Why you can no longer forward domain emails to Gmail (and how to get around it)
Things just keep on a-changing...especially in the technology world For years, it's just been such an easy workaround to create a domain name email (name@yourdomain.com) and forward it to one Gmail or other email account so that messages only need … [Read more...]
Find your vacation rental niche market!
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
You are in your own information “filter bubble”
The past 13 or so years, I have really noticed this kind of filtering unfolding. It's made my job as a search engine optimization expert very difficult as Google and other engines now customize the search results being served up for each person … [Read more...]