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Review of Vacation
Rentals 411 (VacationRentals411.com) |
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Summary |
Worth Trying |
VacationRentals411 is a large vacation rental site for mostly US
vacation rentals.
VacationRentals411 has innovative pricing based on "bidding" for placement in
the searched listings. |
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Listings |
20,000 |
VacationRentals411 is a large site with 20,000
vacation rental listings. |
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Category |
US with some European |
VacationRentals411 is a US based site with
some European listings. Most of the
rental enquiries tend to come from the US. |
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Visitor Traffic |
High |
VacationRentals411 has more than 200,000
unique visitors per month. See also above chart for their latest Alexa traffic ranking.
We have received good results with our free listing
11631 |
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Ease of Use for Advertisers |
Medium |
Easy to register your site and update
information on VacationRentals411, although the user interface is fairly
basic. Allows up to 9 photos with no extra charge.
VacationRentals411 keeps a log
of all enquiries you receive for easy tracking.
Enquiries can be sent to your PDA or cell
phone (via text message).
VacationRentals411 allows you to "bid" for premium placement on the
site, so that you can control how much you spend
on advertising. Listings show up in the order of price
paid, so if you are in a popular area you may need to
spend in order to get visibility. On the other hand, if
there are not many properties in your area, you may not
need to pay at all ! |
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Ease of use for Renters |
Medium |
Search facilities on VacationRentals411
focus of browsing geographically. In addition,
Vacationrentals411 offers an internal search engine
on each page. Although description pages are fairly simple,
they are clear and avoid the confusing levels of
detail of some other sites.
Renters can see how often each vacation rental
property has been viewed, which is useful for
determining the popularity of particular vacation
rentals. |
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Cost |
Free but pay for placement on the site |
VacationRentals411 has an innovative approach to pricing. You
can place a basic ad for free, but can then "bid" to get
your listing ranked higher in the searches for that
geography. You then pay for each viewing of the listing
e.g. if you bid $0.05, then for each 20 viewings, you
are charged $1. |
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