This guidebook contains stories offering advice and tips to create your own Web site. The details are specific to using SiteGround as your Hosting provider. However, the concepts should translate onto other Hosting providers too. Should you choose to use SiteGround as your hosting provider, I would appreciate you signing up using my referral link: https://www.siteground.com/?referrer_id=7995617
Your domain name will be the URL that you use to direct users to learn about your property and to have them book with you. The domain name should be shorter, somewhat unique and easy to share. Preferably, you can create a brand name associated with your property or vacation rental business ensuring these 3 traits.
If you're trying to work away from listing with an OTA (Online Travel Agency) site or you just want a Web presence that you fully control for your vacation rental site, you can easily create your own site.
Google Analytics is a way to keep track of how your Web site is being searched for and accessed. Information about where the users are located, what devices they're using, what pages they're interacting with and how they find your Web site is included. You'll get a feel if that Facebook Ad you placed brought any new traffic to your Web site. You'll see that the new post you wrote is really getting a lot of hits.
To save effort on setting up your new Web site, you can embed items that you already have on your Houfy listing. When editing your Houfy listing, you can find some items have an "embed" button. When selecting the "embed" button, Houfy will display the HTML necessary to integrate into your Web site.
I've used both Hostgator and SiteGround. I don't have personal experience with GoDaddy, but I can say that I haven't heard many good things about them.
