Hi Emilie,
Well let’s start by putting back all the information we used to have, that would be a good start.
Our own header titles, where we can describe what we offer,
The number of bedrooms not just beds, and all the rest of the info that was on the landing page.
And put back the Search option for Pets, the so called web search to bring that up has never worked for me,
so anyone who wants to find a pet friendly home must “ click through” to a large number of properties before they find a pet friendly place.
So many guests have thanked me, saying, “I’m so glad I found you” it was hard to find a pet friendly place. Narrow the search for people so they have a shorter list to work through.
I don’t fit into any of the fancy new categories, so I just don’t come up in anything other than “All homes”. This puts me into a very broad category unless the potential guest uses the search options.
Unfortunately one of those options “Pets” is now missing, so my potential guest is left to figure out , which homes are pet friendly, and, which homes have enough bedrooms.
My potential guest needs to click through on every home to find that information, that’s a lot of searching. Far more than they used to need.
Put the system back, give us our TOOLS back, they are important for all of us, Hosts and Guests,
put the fancy category stuff up also if need be, but don’t remove what worked before.
HELP the guest to find us, what you’ve done now is just making it hard work for the guest to find us, and empty homes for us with no income.
I guarantee, if the guests find searching the Airbnb platform hard work, they will shift.
I currently have 2 of my 6 properties on another platform, today I’m going to list my other 4.
Simply so I can get “Found”. I want and need my amazing guests, and if Airbnb has buggered up the system, I shall simply go somewhere else.