6 Reasons Why WIX is the Best Website Builder for Vacation Rentals
You are just starting your renting business and wondering which is the best website builder for vacation rentals?
Help has arrived! Here we won’t talk about pricing or comparing sites. We’ll explain why for us, WIX has proven to be the best.
2 years ago when we started our Vacation Rentals in Skopje, Macedonia we knew that we can’t rely on platforms like Airbnb & Booking forever. In our city we can’t charge more than 25-30$ per day and by paying 15% to Booking.com + bills and other expenses there will be no money left in our pocket. That was the reason to start our own VR website through which we can get direct bookings.
This blog post is not sponsored by WIX
Since we have our own website and working on it weekly (updating & optimizing), our direct bookings are up with 40%. If you are looking for the best website builder for vacation rentals, keep on reading. We’ll also explain why WIX has proven to be the best one for us.
Check out our vacation rental website created with WIX for the apartments we rent in Skopje – www.skopje-apartments.com
6 Reasons why WIX is the best website builder for vacation rentals
- The WIX platform is very easy to use even for people that have no idea how to code or design. You can choose one of the many templates and just change the text and pictures. Also if you are a creative person you can easily design by using drag & drop.
2. You don’t need to be SEO Expert to get listed on Google & Yahoo while using WIX.
For every page that you create or edit there is an option for SEO optimization. That means you can add the keywords you wish to rank for, the meta, title and also you can see how your website will look on Google.
Beside the on-page SEO there is a part where you can optimize the whole website. From there you can connect with Google console and also the platform will point out what you need to add or fix so that your website can be optimized better.
See also: Cheap Vacation Rental Website (Design Included)
Wix Website Builder has an outstanding app for Bookings
3. What we needed and loved the most before we decided to go with WIX as the website builder for our vacation rentals was the Booking app. Here you can add as many pictures as you want, use beautiful icons for your amenities, list as many properties as you want, adjust the pricing easily, set seasonal pricing and synchronize calendars with other vacation rental platforms.
4. We didn’t know in the beginning, but we found out that there is an option to create vouchers so clients can use them when booking to get discounts. We simply love this feature and we use it a lot when we make promotions during the low season.
5. Chat! When using the app on your phone and having installed the WIX chat app on the website, you get notifications whenever you have a visitor and you can see where are they from.
Sometimes we text them directly while they are browsing the website to help them with the booking.
6. You can address your questions about the platform on Twitter @WixHelp. They are very responsive and very helpful.
The One thing that we don’t like
The blog! It simply doesn’t look good and in the url it must always have “single post”.
For example: https://www.skopje-apartments.com/SINGLE-POST/How-To-Get-To-Matka-Canyon
On mobile, there is a black frame that can’t be removed but It can be removed on desktop view.
Still, WIX is the best platform for vacation rentals for us and we will use it again
Enough said, these were the 5 reasons why WIX is the best website builder for vacations rentals to our opinion. If you have any questions or tips how to make our website better, please let us know in the comment box below.
