Hi Everyone!
Does anyone know a way to have your "hero" photo show up on Google vacation rentals as the main (first) photo? I have found my properties on GVR, but didn't recognize them right away. I have some hero photos which make the properties eye catching but on Google, one had a picture of the pool (which looks like everyone else's pool), one had a picture of the front of house, one had a picture of the kitchen (boring), has anyone else experienced this?
Also - I noticed that VRBO had one of the properties, also showing without hero photo - maybe this has something to do with it?
I guess my questions are :
1. Does anyone know where does Google Vacation rental pull its info from? is it from my hosted website, directly from OR, maybe from one of the site like VRBO or Booking? OR... could it be A.I. deciding what photos to show ?
2. Has anyone found a way to make a certain photo stick to the first position on Google and VRBO - on everywhere for that matter ?
Thanks everyone - I am a little new to all of this, so If anyone knows anything about this, or has any input...any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you support community!!
Sherry
1. from every place. can be from booking.com, vrbo etc.
2. No. just like #1, GVR uses some version of logic/AI to choose what 1st photo will be. Vrbo made a couple of attempts to use "AI", got bad results (ex: bathroom photo being the lead photo), got big backlash, and rolled it back.. they may be doing it again. My listings show my lead photo on Vrbo. YMMV
Thank you for the clarification 🙂