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Hi Hanorah Agreed - we were slow this year but now have only 2 weeks left - and only 3 weeks were F&F! Hope things are good with you. We've never paid for any advertising, other than Google and in an emergency ebay. The free listing sites do drop the odd enquiry through - but it's difficult to k...

If you're looking to compile a list of useful website stats counters, the one that I use is statcounter.com. Not only is this free, but you don't need to advertise it on your site either. This site is only free for the 1st 100 hits, then the cache is emptied, but for me it is enough to show which si...

Back to the original question - we've registered with holidayrentals.org - as far as I can tell, they're a sister company to self-catering-breaks.co.uk - which, although it's lower down the search rankings recently, was the site that got us our 1st ever guest - so they're good in my books

Hi Jim - Just spotted another: SelfCatering-directory.co.uk The problem with these sites is that they may be free, but do they get good rankings? I remember Self-catering-breaks being high on the rankings last year, but this year they're not featuring as well - perhaps worth an email to find out why...

We're doing OK for bookings this year too - one more booking til we've broken even this year - much as we want the bookings, it means that my partners & I can't get to use the villa ourselves. Most of our advertising has been on the free listing sites (Self-catering-breaks, 2000villas, ocean vie...

We've been using ppc from the start for our villa marketing, so can't imagine how difficult it would be to get visitors and bookers without it. I guess that 70% of our enquires come straight from our web site & hence google. We only have 4 phrases that we pay for - not the huge amount of combina...

Just joined - Your last post was in January have you found any other Turkey contacts since then?

I love it there - the country, people, food... looking forward to my next trip in May