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Effective Advertising For Your Holiday Home

There are many holiday home directories on the market, but to our knowledge we are still the only site dedicated to creating holiday home websites for owners to advertise directly to holidaymakers.

Advantages of having your own website:

• Incorporate your own website address in other forms of advertising like magazine adverts, flyers, business cards, posters etc. This enables potential customers to get more information and encourages them to write your web address down to remind them later.
• Be found on search engines like Google. This opens up a whole new range of customers! We are not saying you will get to the top of Google for a search like “holiday home”, but you may get to the top for a search like “holiday home sauventerre france”.
• Add far more photos, video and panoramas than any of the holiday home directories.
• Look more professional with your own domain name and email address. There is nothing that says “amateur” more than no website or a shoddy website and an email address like dave.rogers73@btinternet.co.uk
• Potential customers feel reassured when they know you have a website with clear contact details.
• Link to your site from other websites such as Gumtree, Craigslist and Ownersdirect. This has a double bonus – you get more direct traffic to your site and it increase your Google ranking which helps advertise to even more people.
• No longer spend hours sending out tedious emails with lots of photos attached to describe your property to potential holiday makers who saw your property on a directory or forum – just send a link to your site.

OK – my own website is a good idea. Why not ask a friend to make me a website or find a professional web designer?

• Your friend may make you a perfectly good looking site, but will it be optimised for search engines such as Google and designed to work in different browsers? Will they incorporate a gallery that can show 200 photos, video and panoramas? Will you be able to keep your calendar updated?
• A professional developer should design a site that works well, but how much will they charge and how will you find a designer you trust - not just for the design but for long term support as well?
• Really good professional designers often only work on sites that cost £10,000+ as it is not economical to design sites for individuals who want a small site.
• Will your friend or the professional designer you found offer free support with a telephone number you can ring 7 days a week or email support that actually get a reply?
• How easy will the site be to update or change? Holiday Site Builder has a very easy to use management system. You can change the whole look of your site with one click, add bookings to your calendar easily and change wording whenever you want. When comparing with a design company ask them for a quote for a site with a “Content Management System” or “CMS”. If you do not have a CMS then you may have to pay the designer every time you want to make a small change to your site – which could be very costly in the long run!
• What about hosting your website? Will you host it yourself and monitor it to make sure it is always up? Will your friend or the professional designer do it for you? With Holiday Site Builder you do not have to worry about hosting. We use our own servers in a state of the art hosting centres and use professional monitoring services to make sure your site is up and performs well. We also perform regular backups.

If you are still thinking of using a professional design company for your website, our parent company, Stellus.co.uk, can design a bespoke website for you. Prices for a holiday home website range from £500 to £1,500 plus £200 per year for support and hosting.

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