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As you have read and seen on our blog, Spain-Holiday.com happily and proudly announced the launch of a series of videos of different areas across Spain. The videos have proved a huge success after becoming an Official Webby Honoree due to its international recognition at the 15^th Annual Webby Awards. Of more than 10.000 entries Spain-Holiday.com´s video of  Costa del Sol came in fourth place under the category Travel and Adventure!

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All finished, a total of 480 videos, in 10 different languages! We are very happy with the final result. We are also extremely pleased to see that they are appreciated by others. An increasing number of people have been embedding them onto their own websites and the number of videos being watched has been multiplying day-by-day. Help us spread the message and promote your area, share them with your friends on Facebook, Tweet your followers, or if you know of a website (or person) that would appreciate the quality, be sure to pass them on. Beneath, you can find links to all videos currently available – at no cost.

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Spain is divided into a lot of different types of areas, one of them is SUBURBs. If your property is located in a suburb, then I suggest you modify your advertisment in your account to include it, as we now show suburbs online www.spain-holiday.com in different places.

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On Friday April 2011 1st we have scheduled a major service maintenance update. Therefore we expect that Spain-holiday.com will be down for approximately 1-2 hours between 6-9 in the morning.

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All advertisers on www.spain-holiday.com have the option to translate their advertisements into 10 different languages. We now offer professional translation services to give your advert even more international exposure.

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High definition (HD) videos are now available to give our visitors an idea of what they can expect from an area before they visit. The videos are available in 10 languages and you can freely embed them into your own website. We will be happy to assist you. Here you will find links to each of the areas.

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Whilst progress is a great thing, we must make sure that we don’t give away too much information and compromise the security of our properties, or the security of our rental clients when they are staying in them.

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Ever since the 2009 budget, owners of holiday rental homes in Europe have been granted the same tax breaks that apply to UK based property lets. This is due to end on the 5th of April 2011. There are several conditions and it is imperative to get professional advice, but the tax breaks can be substantial.

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Spain Holiday spends a tremendous amount of time and resources making Spain Holiday – search engine friendly. The ways people go about booking and making holiday enquiries has changed substantially over the years. The internet and more importantly people’s ability to find what they are looking for on the internet is of central importance to any business. With the peak booking period coming up quickly, we would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to a few key points that should be borne in mind when writing your property’s description and a couple of other simple steps that will aid your property’s visibility.

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Having the advanced property search online for several months now, I believe it is time for me, responsible for support, to make a general call to all the owners and make you all aware of the importance to have updated calendars and prices.

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We are happy to introduce you the new section provided by Spain-Holiday.com: Suburbs. In order to show the exact location of your property we have added a new addition to the user accounts which is called “Suburbs”.  Due to the large amount of holiday homes located close to each other, and in order to help facilitate and make searches more accurate to all Spain-holiday.com visitors, we have decided to add this new section.

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As homeowners, particularly if trying to target that ‘niche’ market we mentioned in the filling your availability calendar post. It is important to get as much information as possible. Information that will serve both yourselves and your potential renters. More and more people are searching for ‘child friendly’ holidays. Below are some of the points that are sure to be at the forefront of any mother’s mind. Spain is a wonderful country for a holiday with your baby.  The Spaniards are generally very affectionate towards children and yours will get lots of attention.  However, holidaying with a baby can at times be daunting thinking about cramming all of baby’s milk, nappies, foods and all the other gear into your suitcase. Here is a brief guide to what is available for you and your baby for when you holiday to Spain.

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With summer quickly drawing to a close, many property owners are carrying out inventories and trying to assess how they can improve on their current bookings. Despite the optimistic increase in holiday makers to Spain in July, it is not easy to fill the availability calendar during the quieter months. Without wanting to cover all too familiar ground and belay the obvious, here are a few ‘empirically’ backed suggestions.

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We are sorry to inform that due to an incident which occurred with our server a few days back some homeowners might not have been receiving enquires to their email addresses as usual. The problem was fixed immediately however some email providers might have blacklisted our emails and therefore they are not being sent to your inbox.

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Make sure that you receive the enquires sent to you by following up on your emails but also by using other resources that might be helpful to you.

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We have had our extended search online www.spain-holiday.com for a few months now. We have received very few complaints, but lots of happy searchers. On the basis of that we have decided to roll out this new search to all the other languages.

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Over the past years, many of you asked if we accepted PayPal payments. Until now, this hadn’t been possible.

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Solar energy is becoming increasingly popular across Spain. Despite the obvious ethical arguments; attractive grants and subsidies, coupled with increasing energy prices, are all helping to make all forms of natural energy ever more accessible.

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You pay us to deliver enquiries and ooops! you lose business because they end up in the spam filter. This seems like a never ending story, but there are simple ways to prevent this from happening.

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With our new extended search you should expect potential renters to send fewer enquiries because they now can narrow down their search better and faster. But this should on the other hand give you more bookings if you manage to adapt to this new situation.

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