Is there anyway to share reviews between airbnb and homeaway (VRBO)? Seems like it will be a good idea, just like link the calendars. If we can link the reviews that will be great!
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Why would they put a link to their competitors’ on their website? Let alone mention them!
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No way to share reviews. I’ve have listings on both sites and have had to earn reviews separately.
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Unfortunately not! But you could collect all the reviews your receive on any platform on your own website 
that’s what we do!
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You have your own website for advising or can take bookings? Thanks. I was thinking about building one but doesn’t feel like it will help a lot. How’s your experience? Thank you.
We do this too to date, but we take screenshots of the reviews so that the site doesn’t suffer any Google problems for having duplicate content.
I’m going to revise this method though because they are hard to read on a phone.
Now that’s interesting. So google will recognize duplicate content if it is in the form of copy and paste? But it wont recognize it if it’s in the form of a screen shot? It just reads it like a pic?
That’s exactly right. When you think about it, Google’s duplicate content strategy makes sense. If users search for a certain term, Google wants to present them with a variety of sites on the subject, not several sites with identical content, basically.
It’s OK of course to have quotes or even a paragraph quoting from another site but large amounts of duplicate content isn’t a good thing. A site doesn’t get banned or anything like that but it’s unlikely to come up well in search engines.
Screenshots are the answer because people can read the text but computers can’t.
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Hey yes, we have our own website for taking bookings.
At the moment it’s particularly good for repeat bookings which my parents get a lot of during the high season (I help them out with the business but I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s mine… 
). These repeats these tend to be older guests who (a) aren’t interested in Airbnb at all and (b) wouldn’t be too happy if it’s suddenly more expensive than they’re used to paying (because of the fees). So it’s a great way to keep their custom and also avoid paying fees (both parties).
They made the website with Lodgify.com software which was really simple to get up and running. There was a free (2-week I think?) trial so you can make sure you’re happy with the service before paying which I think is a great plus point! They’ve also since sent tons of free ebooks and blog post via email to help out with online marketing and optimizing for SEO which my retired folks had no idea about before. would recommend the service.
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Warning: Barrage of questions to follow
I’m not sure how you can program this into your website as Airbnb do not provide a public API (unless this has changed recently.)
Or do you mean you just manually copy paste the review text after each Airbnb review? How do you ensure this looks genuine to potential bookers on your website? You can’t give a section link to that particular review, do you link to your Airbnb listing itself to say this is where it was? But in that case, you’re encouraging them to hop to the Airbnb site?
But are the review portions on Airbnb listings or host profile even subject to search/SEO indexing?
I’m not sure this is the case. My gut feeling tells me quoting Airbnb reviews on your own website textually will not lead to SEO issues (ie falling foul of Google Search etc for duplicating content), but this needs a bit more investigation.
On the whole, creating a ‘compendium’ of reviews on your own website is a nice idea though. I might think of enhancing my website with this.