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09. Jul, 2010

Holiday Website Tips (6) – What your clients say is important!

Website testimonials for your french holiday property

As a french property owner you are constantly competing for bookings with other owners in your area. In times when demand outstrips supply you should all be able to co-exist happily, but the number of available rental units has been rising steadily and exchange rate fluctuations and economic crises are conspiring to dampen demand too….
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26. Mar, 2010

Holiday Website Tips (5) – Location, Location, Location…

Show visitors where your property is If the location of your french business is important to your website visitors (for example, if you are selling or renting holiday properties or if you have a shop or office that people need to find) it might be worth reading on… Do your potential customers know where you…
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19. Mar, 2010

Holiday Website Tips (4) – Outbound Links

It’s nice to help others out by linking to their site, or to link to useful resources for your website visitors, but be careful that you don’t “leak valuable link juice” from your site in doing so. It gets a little technical, and there are plenty of other places to find out more, but in…
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12. Mar, 2010

Holiday Website Tips (3) – Inbound Links

The importance of link building for my French Property or local interest website Have you seen the number of results that get returned when you search for ‘holiday rental property in brittany‘ or ‘loire holiday rental‘ or ‘gite near la baule‘ or any other phrase that includes a combination of ‘france’, ‘brittany’, ‘holiday’ or ‘property’?…
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08. Mar, 2010

Holiday Website Tips (2) – Be easy to contact

Sample contact us button

Make sure there is a clear and obvious way for people to get in touch with you wherever they are on your website. Failure to do so could result in lots of potential bookings finding their way to somebody elses website. You only need your full contact details on one page, but don’t hide the…
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05. Mar, 2010

Holiday Website Tips (1) – Be visual

Good images are essential for french property websites if they are to retain visitors

Publishing to the web is so much easier these days, making it possible for all French Property Owners, no matter what their level of technical expertise, to promote their rental property online in a website or blog or on various social media sites such as Facebook. All one needs is a computer, an internet connection,…
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