Thanks to the internet, tourists are now finding it easier to look for alternative accommodation for a traditional hotel stay through the search engines. Vacation Rentals are the most competitive alternate for traditional hotel rooms. It is very much suitable for traveling with a group and it is much cheaper too!

Are you an owner of vacation rentals? And tiered of spending too much money on advertising your home on the internet to getting few inquiries for the money you spend? Advertise smart in free sites and get more inquiries for no cost.

Most homeowners choose to sign up with sites which are getting considerable traffic. The number of visitors to the site per day is important as it increases the chances of getting more inquiries and renters. The greater number of visitors to a site – the more popular the site is. Some sites charge homeowners for $30 to $225 in order for their properties to be included in the directory for year, the price needed to be paid for membership depends on the popularity of the listing.

Now days there are lot of sites offering free listing for limited period like 6 months or one year, after that you will be charged a considerable amount fee as listing service charge. On the other hand, there are sites like www.rentalmadeeasy.com offers free listing of vacation rentals for lifetime. These sites also get high traffic especially since more homeowners can access the services of these sites for free. We recommend all home owners to take advantage of listing their homes in those sites and get more inquiries even though the sites have only few hundreds of visitors a day.

How, you might ask, these sites allowing free listing of vacation rentals and homes earn their income? Some of these sites sometimes get minimal commissions for every booking. Also, they get residual income from advertisements on their sites. There are also some sites which actually charge fees for homeowners to prioritize the position their listing, so much like the yellow pages. Some of these sites charge for extra photos after free ones. Some of the sites charge money for adding the link to your own websites. The most interesting fact about these free vacation rental listing sites is they do not require any credit card information when you list your properties; it is completely up to you to decide to promote your property in these site by paying extra to prioritize or adding extras like more photos and links. In addition to these features most of the free sites for listing vacation rentals and homes are also promoting your listing on major search engines and bring more traffic to your home.

For homeowners, paid and free listing of vacation rentals and homes serves as a source of advertisement and a great way to get more booking for their villas, homes, condos, etc. Now days there are more and more real estate investors are choosing to purchase vacation properties abroad because these are not only cheaper, they also more profitable especially when these are advertised in a free listing of vacation rentals and homes.

According to a study, approximately half of the homeowners surveyed say that more than 25% of their vacation rental bookings come from paid listing sites. At present at least 27% of homeowners use three or more paid listing sites and at least 86% of homeowners have listed their properties on free sites. On the other hand, 14% of the homeowners surveyed do not use free listing of vacation rentals and homes, and 18% use more than 3 free sites for their vacation homes. With these statistics, it is undeniable – the use of free listing of vacation rentals and homes is the way to go if you want to profit from your property.



By: Vincent Berkmans

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