Ditch Your OTA - Holiday Let Owners Help & Support

19/04/2026

💙💙Welcome Cartref Glas💙💙

Cartref Glas literally means the blue house and was named by the owners children. Perfect for a Swansea City break the website is another example of our single page format - masquerading as a full website!

The site went live earlier in the year and enhances a long standing airbnb business.

Have a look at https://cartrefglasswansea.co.uk/

17/04/2026

🤩🤩Wandylaw Cottages Is Live!! 🤩🤩

Two beautiful cottages in Northumberland near coast and country. It was great to work with the owner Rachel who had a clear vision of what she wanted!!

These are holiday lets with their own personalities and the owners have worked hard to create a fabulous stay

Check out the website at : https://wandylawcottages.co.uk/

15/04/2026

By The Sea At Pevensey 🌊🐳

We recently went live with our updated one page template for Pevensey Bay Escapes right on the south coast at Pevensey Bay.

Whilst it is a one page website you can still book, show off the area, see reviews - everything you need in a holiday let website. It may be small but it packs a punch!

Get a sneek peek at https://pevenseybayescapes.co.uk/

11/04/2026

SEO! SEO! SEO!

So many of you have asked about improving SEO in recent months and whilst all our sites have SEO best practices, SEO can always be improved.

Harmony Hills asked us to upgrade things so we:

☀Built a custom SEO schema that works with the structure of the website to automatically tell google all about your property pages

☀Updated the content on the homepage to improve SEO for key words

☀Created city pages - to showcase the cities and their listing with SEO rich content

Already paying dividends the new pages are starting to rank on google and attract lots of new clicks and views!

If you have a Ditch Your OTA Website we'll be ready to roll this out soon - watch this space!

09/04/2026

What A View!!

The beautiful An Daroch went live earlier in the year. A stunning lochside cottage
To view the website go to : https://andarochargyll.co.uk/

25/03/2026

Kay’s Facebook fix is starting up again soon. Highly recommend this supported course to grow your direct bookings.

🖊️ Facebook gives you a voice (not just a listing) 🖊️

(Number 2 in my series: 10 reasons why Facebook might be your best booking tool)

Airbnb gives you boxes to tick. Bedrooms: tick. Wi-Fi: tick. It’s efficient, but it’s also impersonal.

Facebook is different. It gives you a voice. It lets you speak directly to your guest, as a real person. You can share stories, talk about the character of your place, show what matters to you.

And this matters more than you might think. According to Sprout Social, 64% of consumers want brands to connect with them — and 76% are more likely to buy from someone they feel aligned with. That’s even more true when we’re talking about holidays, which are emotional purchases at heart.

People buy from people.

No algorithm is going to pick up the charm of your homemade guidebook or the fact you leave oat milk in the fridge. But Facebook gives you space to show those things and speak to the kind of guest who’ll love them.

So how about doing that today?

Find a photo that shows why your place is perfect for someone in particular — and post it. Tell them it’s for them. Speak to them directly. Let me know what you do!

If you're interested in turning Facebook into a booking engine, Facebook Fix, which starts next month, is for you. Look out for details on my website andx here over the coming days.

Kay x

P.S. This is me outside ours for a post for my place. This speaks to outdoorsy couples with babies - one of our core markets - and it also shows my face and reminds potential guests who they could be buying from.

27/11/2025

Anyone with a Wordpress site and looking for a PMS this has similar functionality to Bookalet but also integrates with pricelabs.

I’ve used it on lots of client sites and have created a load of training videos about it 😁

Auto-sync Booking/Airbnb/VRBO ✅ Card payments direct to account ✅ ZERO huge commissions ✅ Click now for -40% BLACK FRIDAY!

22/11/2025

💬 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲? 🤔

Your neighbour’s asking £150 — but that doesn’t mean you should too.

We’ve all done it — peeked at what the place down the road charges and thought, “That’s about right.” But pricing your holiday let on hunches can leave money on the table 💸

That’s why I created the Pricing Analysis Service (from £95) — a data-backed way to understand your market and price with confidence.

Using live local data, I’ll show you:
📍 Where your rates sit in the market
📆 When to raise (or lower) your prices
💡 How to boost both occupancy and profit

Simple insights. Real results. No jargon.
Because a well-priced property gets booked — and stays profitable.

See the link in the comments.

20/11/2025

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀? 🎉

It’s where we share booking-boosting tips, talk tech without the jargon & swap stories only other owners “get”!

👉 Come join us: facebook.com/groups/ditchyourota

Let’s grow your bookings — not your OTA fees.

20/11/2025

Websites! I'm thinking of running a workshop/masterclass in the new year where we will build our own wordpress holiday let website - including a PMS. Not sure what I would charge for this but it would be a fraction of the price of having one built.
My websites have an easy to use editing system so not as scary as wordpress. The idea is i release a task every few days over several weeks and we have lives and support sessions throughout the period, with the training sessions available on line on an ongoing basis. Trying to gauge interest at the moment. Please comment if interested.