Best Rental Listing Sites for Ski Bookings

[Hells Bells]

Posting your listing I mean!! As in the next couple of days, not the next year. Or have you already added it?

[Rosbif]

MG do you know how to change the language on that site, its all double dutch to me haha!

[Hells Bells]

http://www.homegate.ch/homegate/index?l ... e=RentFlat

[Mountain Goat]

Yes, that link of Helen's, and near the top right of the page, you click on EN for the English version, but as you plough through their pages, you might find the Google language translator thing useful, as mine kept reverting to German.

Also keep in mind, as it's a Swiss site, there's also google.ch to test for Google performance.

MG

[Hells Bells]

MG, fortunately no 1 son was around, so I didn't need the google translator. . Is it necessary to fill in the details in German too? I will sort it tomorrrow if so, and I still need to enter my rental prices.

[Mountain Goat]

No, I don't think so. I think the idea is to input in one language and it does the other 3 for you.

It still baffles me where the owners are from - how on earth would 10,000 Danish holiday home owners have heard of the site and be minded to list? Are the flights between Geneva and Copenhagen crammed with a lemming-type rush each summer? It must be taking a listing feed from something else.

Also, if you go in as a punter, and try and get some further info on a property, there's no communication with the owner, just a Book Now link; if you click on that you have to fill in an extended booking form which would be enough to put off any initial enquirer, and they may think they're making a live booking rather than asking for information. Compulsory birthdate and address on an initial enquiry? All a bit silly.

MG

[Hells Bells]

From the guy who runs j2ski.

http://www.j2ski.com/advertising_optimization.html

He is also going to check out the Hitwise statistics for us.
One of the other guys on there also wrote a book on SEO, the ABc of SEO.

[Hells Bells]

Here goes, from Dave at j2ski,many thanks. Here are just some of the search terms used over the past few weeks to include the words 'chalet' and 'apartment'

ski chalets
meribel chalets
chalets in val d'isere
catered chalets
chalets val disere
ski chalet avoriaz france
2 bedroom apartment in val d'isere
catered chalets wengen
courchevel 1850 chalets
chalet specialists
ski america canada chalets holiday
ski chalets france with free lift pass in january
chalet in alpe d huez over christmas
ski chalets in ischgl
val d'isere chalets
self catered ski chalet tignes
catered ski chalets italy
la belle plagne apartments
planibel apartments italy
chalet girls
les deux alpes chalet with hot tub
verbier ski chalet
chalets les montagnettes
vip chalets
ski chalets in tignes
chamonix chalet
chalet ski holidays
chalet harry st anton
val thorens luxury chalet ski in ski out
ski chalet vald'isere
val d isere chalets
ski chalet employment
chalet ski holidays trois vallee
hotel chalet les sorbiers
ski chalets for 20 anywhere
catered chalet in valloire
chalet monica whistler
chalets for a skiing holiday on the highest of italys peaks
snowline chalet
inghams ski chalets
swiss chalets grindlewald
chalets sestriere
skiing apartments new england usa
catered ski chalets in france
accommodation apartment livigno
skiing chalets for rent
catered chalet ski holidays
ski apartments
catered chalets in zell am see
ski chalet canada
ski chalet in france
ski chalets in morzine
ski chalet
chalets in val disere
val d'isere chalet church
zermatt luxury chalet
chalet holidays les gets france
planibel apartments la thuile
chalet salvan
francescato apartments livigno
schweiger chalet st anton crystal
chalet sapphir la tania
italian ski chalets
verbier chalets
la plagne apartments 2008
skichalets
ski chalets for sale
self catering chalets val d'isere
chalet le cairn chamonix
chalets meribel le rond point
val disere chalet
engelberg chalets
ski chalets in la tania
ski chalet avoriaz
chalet evergreen meribel
lapland chalets
chalets arc 1800
chalet marmottons courchevel
crystal ski chalets
ski in ski out chalets in france
place de la cas andorra chalet
farmhouse chalet val d'isere vip
ski chalets in breckenridge
self catering ski chalet
flaine apartments p&v france
le chalet ski
catered chalets val d isere
ski chalets les arc
chalet paula
chalets for rent courcheval 1850 feb 2008
cheap chalets meribel
canadian ski chalets
ski chalet rental tignes-les-brevieres

Any snowheads members can read the full post over there.

[Rosbif]

Wow! Nothing for Serre Che and not much for apartments really.

[Hells Bells]

No, but they are only the most popular searches. There is another thread on SH's about SEO (Davidof has written a book about it), and simply having a simple and fairly unique domain name can boost your chances. So perhaps I was not so stupid in choosing chamoissiere.co.uk for mine.

[Rosbif]

Yes been looking on SH too, I need to do some work over the weekend on learning a bit about html and stuff.

I tried to choose a simple domain name too that included the words 'ski' and 'alps' so hopefully in time that will help

BTW - what does chamoissiere mean?

[Hells Bells]

A goat(chamois) herder I think??

It's getting confusing talking about the same thing on two different websites though

[Marty]

Blimey

Although ski rentals aren't my thing, I'm just trying to write the copy for my new (in progress) personal website - how the heck are we supposed to fit all those word variations in without it sounding stupid.

Ah well, I guess we'll all be burning the candle at both ends for a while yet hey!

[Mountain Goat]

We use Metcheck for our weather forecasts, winter and summer. It's especially good for snow (and rain) conditions.

They're now accepting ads for between £2 and £10 a resort, with claims of 50,000 visitors/day in winter. Ads can be customised and there's tracking.

Could be worth a punt depending on exposure? And snitching customers from the more well-known resorts?

MG

[Hells Bells]

MG,you beat me to it.