How to Drive Direct Bookings with Your Porter
Summary
This article from Get Paid for Your Pad discusses how to drive direct bookings to your short-term rental website using Your Porter. It emphasizes the importance of a direct booking website, the benefits of Your Porter's features (SEO optimization, payment processing), and provides strategies for attracting traffic to your site.
Key Insights
- •Your Porter allows hosts to create their own SEO-optimized direct booking website in a matter of minutes.
- •Your Porter's online payment processor benefits hosts by allowing them to get paid right away vs. day after check-in.
- •Direct booking websites can capture longer bookings.
Action Items
- ✓Market to past guests with a discount code for direct bookings.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Make sure your direct booking site is SEO-friendly.Effort: mediumImpact: medium
- ✓Consider investing in Google Ads for exact listing keywords.Effort: mediumImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Your Porter: Your Porter, the premiere mobile-first property management software for professional STR hosts.
- →Your Porter: The platform includes message automation, team management and an Airbnb ranking booster.
- →Your Porter's Airbnb Rank Tracker: Your Porter's Airbnb Rank Tracker.
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