Before You Drop Prices: How Listing Quality is Costing You Airbnb Revenue
Summary
Data reveals only 9% of Airbnb listings are rated 'Good', directly impacting revenue. Listings with good content are 38% more likely to beat the market average, while the majority have significant room for improvement. PriceLabs has introduced the Listing Optimizer to help identify and fix these issues.
Key Insights
- •Airbnb now blends text and image data to assess listing quality, using over 800 signals to rank listings.
- •Only 9% of Airbnb listings are rated as 'Good', and these listings are 38% more likely to beat the market average.
Action Items
- ✓Consider using the PriceLabs Listing Optimizer to objectively score and improve your listing content.Effort: mediumImpact: medium
- ✓Review your photos and descriptions, ensuring they accurately reflect your property and align with your amenities.Effort: lowImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →Listing Optimizer: PriceLabs has introduced the Listing Optimizer.(pricelabs.com)
Common Mistakes
- ⚠Photo-Text Mismatches: Claiming a “waterfront” location in the text that isn’t clearly visible in the photos.
- ⚠Support-Prone Elements: Confusing check-in instructions or missing amenities that lead to support cases, which Airbnb now uses to lower your rank.
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