HomeAway Listings Position

 

HomeAway Listings Position

HomeAway has recently reminded owners/managers which factors affect listing positioning on its main sites.

After your subscription level, your listing quality scores determine where your property appears within search results. The most important factors families and groups look for when renting a property include high quality photos, reviews from past travelers, quotable rates, online booking capabilities, online payments acceptance, updated calendars, an accurate map pin placement and your listing’s tenure. The listing quality scorecard within your owner dashboard is a quick and easy tool that provides customized recommendations for how you can improve the quality of your listings and your position within search results.

Photos – Add up to 24 photos.

Availability Calendar – updated regularly.

Reviews -The more collected, the better.

Rates – Keep all rates up-to-date so the property appears when filtering a search by price.

Payments and Online Booking – The guest books a property and pays through the HomeAway platform. HomeAway claims “Properties that have online booking receive double the bookings as those without”.

Tenure – The length of time owners/managers have listed with HomeAway will see their loyalty rewarded.

Map Pin – Pin-pointing the exact location of your property.