@Ian-And-Anne-Marie0
Thank you for your response. I'm not 100% clear on all of your response so I'm going to ask for clarification, please:
I can quote to you various research thats been done on listing placement resulting in a top 10 of:
Guest Satisfaction You mean reviews here, am I correct?
Absolute Price = day rate + cleaning+extra guests? Is this what you mean?
Listing word count Not certain about this one. The pitch at the top of the page?
Minimum stay length 1? 3? I've just yesterday gone from 3 to 1 to see if that changes anything.
Days since calendar updated Updated how? I go into my Airbnb site every day. I tweak things all the time. But how do you update your calendar? Update to what?
Price/Bed How does this compare to Absolute Price above? I've heard have a low price on the daily rate and have it for one person, with 20 or so added for each additional guest. So if your price is 130 you are most certainly going to get 150 as most times there is a second person. I don't know if this impacts placement or not? Any thoughts?
Description Length Not sure if you mean the paragraphs about "You're going to love your time staying at this charming..." etc or something else.
Whether Instant Book
Review Count
Saved to Wishlist - someone else saving my listing on their wishlist is what is meant here, correct?
... then 'camping' on your listing making small changes. Is this referring to the tweaks I do every day?
But that aside, what you found would work best for you.
Take what you found, mix it with those top ten and list only the most popular days you book. (Say - Friday, Saturday, Sunday). Then, make those days premium value and add an 'occassional day' at less 40% If those days match your travellers requirements you will be found, the price on your listing will be "from -40%" then you will win and have the rest of the week off! Sorry but I'm not quite sure I'm getting this one. I rent this place all the time. If you're saying set a price for the weekend and then discount the other four days by 40% So say a weekend is $200 per night it would mean weakdays M-Th would be $120 per night? Am I getting this idea right?
If your travellers are random, then its a lot more difficult. All my travelers are at this point random as I've yet to get any repeat guests. Again, is this what you're referring to here?
Thank you so much for responding.
Thomas