Generate targeted traffic
VRWD is dedicated only to vacation rentals. This means only quality referrals to your vacation rental website or vacation home listing.

Increase Your Search Engine Rankings
As the competitive nature of the web has matured, more and more website owners have turned to specialized web directories as an avenue to help with their search marketing efforts. Due to the editorial integrity involved in the listing process, many search engines view listings in "quality directories" such as VRWD.com as a valued citation. As such, many website owners report of submitting their sites to directories like VRWD.com and noticing substantial improvements in their organic search engine listings.

How exactly does this work? According to Google: "In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don’t match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search." (source: http://www.google.com/technology/index.html) Listing in the Vacation Rentals Web Directory provides BOTH high ranking pages and 'vacation rentals' relevant text to maximize the search rank boost.

"Trust Rank" is one of the most important ways Google and other search engines measure the “importance” of your site. TrustRank is based on a "vote of trust" in the form of links from reviewed trusted sites to help search engines identify useful pages from those considered to be "spam." Links to your site from a Trusted Authority Site, such as the Vacation Rentals Web Directory, increases the Trust Rank of your site. Displaying the Trusted Vacation Rental Seal on your website is a proven way to increase your site's Trust Rank.