Why Travel Blogs

A “Blog” is an abbreviation for web-log. A travel blog thus is a travel website that has entries pertaining to a particular topic/ subject or a person, similar to a journal or a diary, in this case travel, vacation rentals or tourism. The contents of a travel blog are generally displayed in the reverse chronological order in order to display the latest travel entries made.

Travel blogs normally deal with a single subject and provide latest news, commentary or opinions on the travel / Tourism subject. The subjects could be as diverse as food, politics, holiday homes, Alaskan fishing or Japanese pearls. Contents of travel blog can also be as diverse and normally consist of images of famous travel places, text, links to other travel blogs or tourism websites and anything related to the travel topic. Most travel blogs consist of text; however, many blogs also focus on images (photoblogs), videos (vlogs) and audio content (podcasts).

Popularity of Travel Blogs

Of late, blogs have become the most sought after by internet marketing professionals to get their wares across or to describe their products in detail. Many global service industries use blogging as a tool to enhance and distribute information of their services by requesting their clients to put up their comments on their services. This helps them to market their services through word-of-mouth publicity at the same time distributing relevant and information from the client’s experiences.

Professionals on the move and jet setters who travel the world can find a lot of information built into blogs especially relevant information that may not be available in a standard printed travel brochure. First hand information on a location can come in great use to a regular traveler, especially if it concerns local travel, hotel and food information and local weather information. These facts have facilitated the popularity of travel blogs across the world.

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Vacation Rental or Holiday Home Advertising at a Bargain Price

You have a vacation rental or holiday home and want to rent it? OK, but how and where and how much it will costs? There are so many questions that every vacation property owner has. It is certain that vacation rentals advertising is not allays expensive.

There are literally hundreds of holiday home directories and vacation rental sites that you can use to advertise your vacation rental property. Some of them are well established, others are brand new. Some of them are beautiful with nice design, others are simple vacation property listing. With so many sites to choose from, you shouldn't stick with one or two of the expensive sites! I can assure you, that the most "new" vacation rentals websites have better service, than many "established" sites. They are young, flexible and motivated and they offer advertising at a bargain price.

There are lots of factors to consider before paying sums of money to advertise your vacation property website.

The most important are:

- Ensure that the vacation rentals site is cost effective. Check if there is a free trial or a special offer ( e.g. arrangeyourvacation.com offers "premium" advertising of holiday homes for 1$ per month, standard listings are free of charge).

- Do you want to advertise on one web site - with annual advertisements typically around $130-$160 per year or you want to spread your offers on many "bargain" web sites?

- Chose vacation rental sites that specifically target travellers to a specific region or country in which you have your property. ( e.g. mexico-holiday-homes.com, italy-vacation-homes.com or greece-holiday-homes.com).

- Consider user-friendly vacation rentals sites with nice features, such as the ability to search by keyword or search for properties that are available for specific dates and than you can save the founded "favorite" properties.

- Ensure that the vacation rentals site offers the ability to modify your listing and photos and allow you to update your availability calendar.

- It is helpful, if the site offers tracking of statistics, as number of times your site was viewed as well as the enquiries that you have received.

Summary: You should list on as much as possible vacation rental sites to maximize your bookings, but chose carefully and don't pay more than necessary! The Price is not allays mark of quality!


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