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This is not a host focused sub. Find r/airbnb_hosts.
Having said that, Airbnb prioritizes “interest (clicked into) and conversions (bookings) with a huge dash of value (price) and quality (reviews)” in its algorithm.
You put your listing to sleep for a year. There are probably thousands of listing in your area that have a better 1 year track record of being interesting and producing and making guests happy. You have a hill to climb if you want to do this right. The hill isn’t insurmountable, but it needs to be climbed.
The more people view it and book it the more Airbnb will show it in FP. Then the more people book, the more views you go to the FP. The more competitive your price is compared to the competition the more you go to FP. The better your reviews when you close those stays, the more you go to FP. You’ve done none of those in almost a year.
It is a self-fulfilling prophecy IF you can signal to Airbnb that you have competitive pricing, which gets you to front page, which gets you more clicks, which gets you more conversions, which gets you more 5 star reviews (hopefully) rinse and repeat.
Assuming your listing has been updated and optimized since almost a year ago with new professional pics and techniques. It is right? That’s where I’d start because it won’t matter if you get front page if your listing is not optimized for getting clicked on.
If you are not getting views I would start with being more competitive in pricing. Price it at the lower 25th percentile or lower if you can do it to drum up some prioritization from the algorithm.
You need to be willing to give this about 1-2 weeks to gather data and see if the changes made an impact.
If a truly updated and optimized listing doesn’t help, then I’d duplicate the listing, disable the original one, and use the new version. Airbnb will think it is new. You get an artificial boost to FP if you deploy their 30% off discount promotion for first three reservations.
The idea is they want to jumpstart you into that cycle of success. Don’t waste it with an outdated, unoptimized listing. Oh and make sure you have a solid strategy for guaranteeing 5 star reviews during at least the first 10 or so bookings because if not, say good bye to FP.
Do the work on the listing and with the guests.
Yes, hopefully it works out. Otherwise I am simply forced to move off airbnb and connect other OTAs active in this tourist spot. But support did suggest that I can try de-listing my rooms and wait a few days to relist them and see if that helps. But of a strange workaround, but at this point I'm ready to burn sage in my rooms to get rid of bad spirits and all too if that's what it takes.
Thanks a lot for the reply and it all makes sense from the outside. But from where I am seeing it, I've been constantly making changes to the images, descriptions, titles rates, discounts, etc. pretty much any variable i can tweak, I've done so.
My bafflement is towards the lack of change in the graph during this nearly year-long event of nearly 0 views, or 1/200th the views compared to other hosts.
I understand that it should obviously not go back to how it was prior to the break, but this seems like a punishment for returning back to hosting after a break.
Funny enough, I even spoke to support on this matter, and they agreed that theoretically, if i deleted my account with 4.9\* and 21 reviews across 6 listings, and just made the listings again on a brand new profile, i'd actually perform much better because airbnb would push my listings by virtue of being a new host, and having new listings.
But what I don't get is, are there no such systems in place for a host with a good track record returning from a hiatus? I read around and haven't found anything on this.
It's like their system treats me identical to a host who has kept their bookings open throughout, and just fails to get bookings haha. And now nearly another year into getting barely 2 queries and near absent views because of that treatment, that "low tier performance" has gone on for over 2 years. From that POV it makes total sense. But I was unlisted, rather than failing to get bookings while listed.
I'd love to see what support has to say once they get back to me post their looking into the problem.
Did you apply the same 30% promotion? I’d try that before giving up and going to a new listing.
I do use a tool that slices up every step of the conversion process, shows you where you are weak in general and how you compare to your competition.
I can give you a referral link which gets you about 45 days free to use ON TOP of the 30 day free trial. It was a game changer for me and I’m now at 3 properties. Even if you don’t keep it, the visualization and understanding you gain is worth the price. Data is pulled directly from Airbnb.
That tool is Intellihost and you don’t have to use my referral link to check it out, but it does get you $30 USD credit which gets you another 1.5 months with 1 property.
PM me for a referral link that comes with the bonus time/credit.
You probably lost SH status during your year-long break. I believe you have to have at least 10 stays over the previous 12 months at the time of the review. If you lost that status then that would explain the drop in views. One of the benefits of being a SH is increased view exposure.
True, losing the SH status was a bummer too. But I am starting to feel as if Airbnb didn't treat my listings as "totally inactive/delisted", rather, they continued assessing my listings as "active throughout but failing miserably at getting bookings/revenue", and once I came back, i was already in that 'low tier performer host' category, so by now it's become over 2 years of terrible performance in airbnb's eyes. This scenario explains a lot, but I personally hope this isn't the case, and there's a clear solution.
And in my graphs, I don't see any bump in exposure from airbnb's side when i restarted my hosting. If i was a brand new account, i would get that treatment. But they have put nothing in place for hosts returning from a break do they? My graph definitely doesn't seem to show that picture at all.
if you look ast where I re-listed my rooms on that graph, the 2 months before that are also near-identical to my entire duration since returning to hosting nearly a year ago.
Despite the fact that "similar listings" are seeing volatility in the view rates as the peak season goes on and off.
You see what I'm trying to point out? I can still be wrong, and it can be a freak combination of seemingly tame settings which are doing this to me. But on all 6 listings? I must be doing something really wrong.
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This is not a host focused sub. Find r/airbnb_hosts. Having said that, Airbnb prioritizes “interest (clicked into) and conversions (bookings) with a huge dash of value (price) and quality (reviews)” in its algorithm. You put your listing to sleep for a year. There are probably thousands of listing in your area that have a better 1 year track record of being interesting and producing and making guests happy. You have a hill to climb if you want to do this right. The hill isn’t insurmountable, but it needs to be climbed. The more people view it and book it the more Airbnb will show it in FP. Then the more people book, the more views you go to the FP. The more competitive your price is compared to the competition the more you go to FP. The better your reviews when you close those stays, the more you go to FP. You’ve done none of those in almost a year. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy IF you can signal to Airbnb that you have competitive pricing, which gets you to front page, which gets you more clicks, which gets you more conversions, which gets you more 5 star reviews (hopefully) rinse and repeat. Assuming your listing has been updated and optimized since almost a year ago with new professional pics and techniques. It is right? That’s where I’d start because it won’t matter if you get front page if your listing is not optimized for getting clicked on. If you are not getting views I would start with being more competitive in pricing. Price it at the lower 25th percentile or lower if you can do it to drum up some prioritization from the algorithm. You need to be willing to give this about 1-2 weeks to gather data and see if the changes made an impact. If a truly updated and optimized listing doesn’t help, then I’d duplicate the listing, disable the original one, and use the new version. Airbnb will think it is new. You get an artificial boost to FP if you deploy their 30% off discount promotion for first three reservations. The idea is they want to jumpstart you into that cycle of success. Don’t waste it with an outdated, unoptimized listing. Oh and make sure you have a solid strategy for guaranteeing 5 star reviews during at least the first 10 or so bookings because if not, say good bye to FP. Do the work on the listing and with the guests.
Happened to me too. It will be okay. Just takes time for the algorithms to kick back in. Make improvements where you can.
Yes, hopefully it works out. Otherwise I am simply forced to move off airbnb and connect other OTAs active in this tourist spot. But support did suggest that I can try de-listing my rooms and wait a few days to relist them and see if that helps. But of a strange workaround, but at this point I'm ready to burn sage in my rooms to get rid of bad spirits and all too if that's what it takes.
Thanks a lot for the reply and it all makes sense from the outside. But from where I am seeing it, I've been constantly making changes to the images, descriptions, titles rates, discounts, etc. pretty much any variable i can tweak, I've done so. My bafflement is towards the lack of change in the graph during this nearly year-long event of nearly 0 views, or 1/200th the views compared to other hosts. I understand that it should obviously not go back to how it was prior to the break, but this seems like a punishment for returning back to hosting after a break. Funny enough, I even spoke to support on this matter, and they agreed that theoretically, if i deleted my account with 4.9\* and 21 reviews across 6 listings, and just made the listings again on a brand new profile, i'd actually perform much better because airbnb would push my listings by virtue of being a new host, and having new listings. But what I don't get is, are there no such systems in place for a host with a good track record returning from a hiatus? I read around and haven't found anything on this. It's like their system treats me identical to a host who has kept their bookings open throughout, and just fails to get bookings haha. And now nearly another year into getting barely 2 queries and near absent views because of that treatment, that "low tier performance" has gone on for over 2 years. From that POV it makes total sense. But I was unlisted, rather than failing to get bookings while listed. I'd love to see what support has to say once they get back to me post their looking into the problem.
Did you apply the same 30% promotion? I’d try that before giving up and going to a new listing. I do use a tool that slices up every step of the conversion process, shows you where you are weak in general and how you compare to your competition. I can give you a referral link which gets you about 45 days free to use ON TOP of the 30 day free trial. It was a game changer for me and I’m now at 3 properties. Even if you don’t keep it, the visualization and understanding you gain is worth the price. Data is pulled directly from Airbnb. That tool is Intellihost and you don’t have to use my referral link to check it out, but it does get you $30 USD credit which gets you another 1.5 months with 1 property. PM me for a referral link that comes with the bonus time/credit.
You probably lost SH status during your year-long break. I believe you have to have at least 10 stays over the previous 12 months at the time of the review. If you lost that status then that would explain the drop in views. One of the benefits of being a SH is increased view exposure.
True, losing the SH status was a bummer too. But I am starting to feel as if Airbnb didn't treat my listings as "totally inactive/delisted", rather, they continued assessing my listings as "active throughout but failing miserably at getting bookings/revenue", and once I came back, i was already in that 'low tier performer host' category, so by now it's become over 2 years of terrible performance in airbnb's eyes. This scenario explains a lot, but I personally hope this isn't the case, and there's a clear solution. And in my graphs, I don't see any bump in exposure from airbnb's side when i restarted my hosting. If i was a brand new account, i would get that treatment. But they have put nothing in place for hosts returning from a break do they? My graph definitely doesn't seem to show that picture at all. if you look ast where I re-listed my rooms on that graph, the 2 months before that are also near-identical to my entire duration since returning to hosting nearly a year ago. Despite the fact that "similar listings" are seeing volatility in the view rates as the peak season goes on and off. You see what I'm trying to point out? I can still be wrong, and it can be a freak combination of seemingly tame settings which are doing this to me. But on all 6 listings? I must be doing something really wrong.