How do I get in the Family Collection?

[Militaryhorsegal]

@JJD

and request for the correct number of guests.

I can only hope!!! So many people book with one and think hey can come with 2 or more!

[georgiahost]

@JJD

I’m not seeing “Family Friendly” or “Family Collection” anywhere on the website in the search menu.

This is kind of my point, that people could be accidentally searching using the Family Collection filter and not realize it, and thus never see my listing. For example, if I do a Google search for Denver one of the top results says “Family Friendly”

and if I click on that it takes me to this landing page

with the Family Collection filter already applied to the search.

Or if I just type “Portland OR Kids” into the standard airbnb search box

the pop-down menu suggests “for kids & families” and clicking on this takes me to a search with the Family Collection filter applied.

Also if I visit the airbnb.com/new page

and click “explore” on the Family box

it again takes me to Airbnb with the Family Collection filter already applied.

All this to say I am not arguing with you, just ranting at Airbnb a little for their inept coding. It would seem that while they say the collection is no more, they are not really getting rid of the Family Collection in the coding, just not allowing new people in, and I think this puts me at a disadvantage.

As I said above, the reason I knew I was not in the Family Collection in the first place is because a relative was specifically looking for me on Airbnb and could not find me. She searched on Google and clicked the family-friendly link and never realized she wasn’t seeing all the properties available, so this is not just hypothetical.

@JJD

Sorry, wouldn’t count on it

This is what I worry about, that Airbnb will never fix the coding so some people searching will never even see my listing. Oh well, it would seem there is nothing I can do about it.

Thanks for letting me get the rant at Airbnb out of my system!

[JJD]

@georgiahost Wow! Thank you. It never occurred to me that people would start their searches in this manner, with a google search. I just tried it myself and only 5 places came up in your area when I did it. Yet, when I put children as guests from a straight search from the website there were a ton more. It’s doing everyone a disservice, those who want families to come stay and those families that are looking for a place.

At least if people use the app, it shouldn’t matter but I see your concern this way completely. I doubt it will be corrected very much if at all, they don’t seem to be on top of stuff like this. It would really annoy me too!!

But, I just searched for where you are with “pets” in the search and you came up first when I clicked. I did this to test my theory. Why not try putting family friendly in your listing title? Everytime I search in my city with a word from my title or someone’s I know it features them when I click on the link. Since family friendly is so important, I think you can beat the system a bit by adding it to your title.
Why not make your whole title relevant? There are words in there that you don’t really need.
Cozy is seen in the pictures and isn’t meaningful anyways. And the location you have in your title will be on the map, unless it’s a specific area people search for. You could fill your title with something like “Family Friendly Quiet Home. Kids and Pets Welcome!” or something like that. It’s similar to your current title but includes the kids and family.

[georgiahost]

@JJD

Why not try putting family friendly in your listing title?

I actually switch my listing name back and forth every week between “pets welcome” and “family friendly”. I agree that it might help my target audience find me. If I could fit both in the title I would do so; maybe I will try getting rid of the “cozy” and see if I can reword it.

@JJD

And the location you have in your title will be on the map, unless it’s a specific area people search for.

There are two reasons I need to leave the city name in there. First, there are not that many listings in my city so a lot of search results are from nearby cities. I want people to notice right away that I am actually in the city they are searching. Especially if you are using the app, if you don’t look at the map you might not realize how far some of the listings are from the city.

Second, there are safe areas and not-so-safe areas of the city. The “North” is there to tell people familiar with the town that I am in the safer area of town. Again, I like to have that right in the listing title for people to find me.

Thanks @JJD for all of your help!

[JJD]

@georgiahost Thanks for your help too! I’m going to optimize my titles better for google searches now. We’re dog friendly so I will add that!

Btw, “cozy” means it’s small, but yours isn’t. Mine is but I don’t advertise it ,) No one is searching for cozy, I’m sure of it!