@Alice-and-Jeff0-
I am not sure if we can resurface your message as I see it has been archived?
I wonder if that was the issue with our listings. I would log off my account do a search with the city, state and zip code to see if we popped up and we didn't.
Los Angeles, CA 90065
I didn't specify any dates or use any filters. I contacted airbnb to inquire. At first they said I needed to specify the dates. I did but still didn't pop up. However, that couldn't have been the reason when I didn't enter any dates and the reason I know is because I would get listings who were actually pretty booked for months at a time.
From my phone conversation with airbnb, I received an email to say they would look into it. Then another email saying the issue had been resolved, but our bookings have been so slow I still think we aren't popping up.
We do have instant book, I do update my listing regularly. However like you, I have set our IB to guests who meet certain standards.
Our current stats for one of our listings has over 700 views in the first 12 days of January. However it also states we have 22 requests and 7 reservations which is not accurate, unless they are counting all the reservations and requests from when we first started hosting in our home back in mid-Nov.