Archive for the 'Vacation Rental Websites' Category

Free-Rentals.com Hits New High In Alexa Ranking

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

The number one free vacation rental website keeps getting bigger. Free-Rentals.com just crossed the 300k mark in terms of Alexa traffic rank, making it the largest free vacation rental website online. Thank you to everyone for your participation, it’s only with the help of vacation rental home owners that we can take this industry back and […]

Free-Rentals.com Hits 7000 Vacation Rental Listings

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

We are pleased to announce that free-rentals.com now has 7000 Vacation Rental listings worldwide. Free-Rentals.com is now the largest vacation rental directory website offering owners a 100% free to advertise opportunity.

Free-Rentals.com Breaks 400k Alexa Ranking

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Free-Rentals.com just broke 2 major trendlines today. For the first time, Free-Rentals.com dropped below the 400k mark… meaning, it’s roughly the 400 thousandth most popular website on the internet.
 
And secondly, Free-Rentals.com has doubled the amount of time each visitor spends on time reviewing vacation rental listings while tripling the number of inquiries sent to vacation […]

How To Market Your Vacation Rental

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

The Free-Rentals.com business model is to put the vacation rental industry back into the hands of individual vacation home owners. What that means to the average vacation home owner is this… Free-Rentals.com offers you tools and services to actively market and promote your vacation rental.
In contrast, the big stalwart companies that currently control the Vacation Rental […]

HomeExchanger Boycotts VRBO

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The blogger HomeExchanger has announced a full boycott on VRBO and is trying to round the troups. Her first grip is that websites such as VRBO that allow people “to list a swap home for rent introduces commercialism into the equation. It also puts a price tag on individual homes which further erodes home exchange’s […]

Free-Rentals.com sees hockey stick growth

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Free-Rentals.com experiences a spike in traffic thanks to the recent donations from several members. Their money has been used in advertising and promoting the website, which has driven a lot of traffic to all vacation rental listings.
 
Free-Rentals.com demonstrates that democracy on the web does indeed work, and that a smart pooling of resources helps everyone involved. 

Cabins for Rent

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

New start up ShopCabins.com allows you to find a cabin to rent. But for whatever reason, they also list condos and hotels. At time of this post, they have 63 cabin listings.

Hotpads now doing vacation rentals

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Hotpads began by focusing on long term real estate rental heat maps, allowing you to view real estate listings primarily through a map front end interface. It then added a “Buy vs. Rent” search feature allowing users to search homes either for sale or rent while comparing their monthly costs.
Their latest addition is to offer vacation rentals across the […]

Find Apartments and Houses for Rent

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Rentbits is a search engine focused on helping people find apartments and houses for rent, but it has released a new feature that allows users to see the average and median rental prices of properties in 4,000 cities across the United States. 
 
Rentbits has analyzed 7 million rental entries in its database, compiling historical graphs displaying the general […]

Free-Rentals.com makes TechCrunch

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Ms. Leena Rao has a great article about an up and newcomer to the vacation rental industry… AirBedandBreakfast.com, who recently rebranded as airbnb.com. Part of what makes the article great is that she mentions Free-Rentals.com as one of the main established competitors.
 
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/y-combinators-airbed-and-breakfast-casts-a-wider-net-for-housing-rentals-as-airbnb/
 
Air Bed and Breakfast has a great website, slick interface and originally started out […]