Advertising Guidelines

As of 1st Oct 2015 we no longer take advertising for Private Rentals

advertising rental properties on goAlcudia.com

Your advertisement will appear on a separate page and can be referred to and accessed directly e.g. www.goAlcudia.com/villalospinos .
You can therefore use it as your own mini web site and refer to it in your brochures. In addition your property will be listed in our directory of properties in the appropriate section. See Search below.

advertisement layout

The layout of our rental advertisements are fixed. We regret we cannot change the format. If you need to qualify or add additional information, then do make use of the Payment Notes and Further Details.

Please note that our advertisements may only refer to one property. Any references to other properties will be removed. If you wish to advertise more than one property, do take advantage of our volume discounts and take out additional advertisements for each property.

photographs

Your advert may include up to 12 photographs with captions. The 1st photograph will be used as a 'thumbnail' to identify your property in the listings.

You may upload your photos on-line and change them as often as you require. This is the fastest option. The photos are displayed as .jpg format, with dimensions no larger than 400 x 400 px (72 dpi) and a maximum file size of 30k. If you choose to upload your photographs on-line, our software will automatically reduce larger images which may affect quality. We also occasionally experience problems uploading high-resolution photos that are often produced by the latest digital cameras i.e. anything greater than 1750 px in either dimension.

We recommend that you use photo-editing software such as the excellent (and very easy to use) Picasa which is FREE to download from Google.

We advise you to use Picasa (or similar) to carry out the following enhancements to your photos:

Crop/Straighten, if necessary,
Try out the other Basic Fixes and Tuning until the photo looks good, clear and bright,
Lastly, sharpen the photo under Effects, Sharpen,
Export Picture to Folder using a size of 400 pixels.

Then upload the photos to your advert.

If you prefer you may email us photos as attachments to rentalphotos@goAlcudia.com and refer to the property id or name of your property. If possible provide captions for each photo. We have software that can manipulate formats and sizes if necessary.

If the photo you wish us to use is already published on a web site, you may provide us with its location so long as you have copyright to the image.

Photographs may also be submitted as photographic prints, negatives or transparencies, or from a clearly printed brochure. We can also scan line drawings etc. We also accept photographs in an electronic format on disc or CD. Please ensure that you have copyright for the photographs you send us. We will retain the copyright for any digital images that we create from scanning your photographs and adding to our web site.

Send photos to

goAlcudia.com
Holiday Webs Ltd
59 Gosbecks Road
COLCHESTER
Essex CO2 9JS
UK

Photographs received by mail or email will be processed free of charge but may take up to 5 working days from receipt.

availability calendar

You may make use of an availability calendar to specify when your property is 'available' and 'unavailable'. You may enable and disable the calendar at any time. To specify unavailability just select the date of the appropriate 'night' that it is unavailable (or occupied).

If you choose to use a calendar, please ensure that it is kept up-to-date. The Last Update date is displayed on your property page. If you do not use a calendar your property will appear in the latter section when a user searches on a date period - see Search.

You may link to your calendar from any other web site and/or in an email. Just include the link http://goAlcudia.com/rentals/availcal.php?id=prpid

Where prpid is the property id eg

http://goAlcudia.com/rentals/availcal.php?id=boquer

last minute deals

This facility is available to all advertisers regardless of whether they use the calendar facility and is independent of it. Therefore you may wish to use both to promote a specific period of availability.

You may select any of the 'next 8 weeks' as having a Last Minute Deal by specifying a New Rental Rate (this can be the same as the current rate) and may optionally include a 'previous' rate and comment.

Last Minute Deals are displayed both on your Property Page and the Last Minute page as well as being highlighted in the property listings.

If you also use a calendar, do ensure that your Last Minute availability is consistent with the availability on your calendar.

Do note that a Last Minute Deal may only refer to the one property advertised in the property advert concerned.

links to your own web site

If you already have your own personal web site* for the property being advertised we will allow a link to this site in exchange for a return link to www.goAlcudia.com Please advise us when you have added the return link and we will update your advertisement. For more information on adding a link to us, see links to us

Please note that an approved link may only be displayed in the Contact Details area of the advertisement. Any other references to an external web site will be removed.

Please be aware that a link to your web site may make it more difficult to assess the effectiveness of advertising on goAlcudia.com. We reserve the right to remove any unauthorised links to external web sites.

*Do note that we allow links to personal websites that only display details for the property (or properties) that are advertised on our web sites. Links to websites promoting other properties may be allowed at our discretion.

receiving enquiries

You may use telephone, fax and an e-mail address for enquiries. E-mail enquirers will be presented with an enquiry form which will request Name, Telephone number, E-mail address, dates required and a general comments area. Email enquiries are sent directly to you and are also stored on our database for you to refer to using the View Enquiries facility. You may also respond to Enquiries from this page and thus can access your Enquiries via any internet connected PC e.g. in a cyber cafe when away from home.

If you don't have an e-mail address or prefer to receive telephone enquiries only, please Contact us to set up the facility for you.

viewing your statistics

Once your advertisement has been published you may access the Advertiser's area to see

No. of Views (of your Property Page)
No. of Enquiries made
No. of visitors to your web site (if you have one).

changes to your advertisement

You may make changes to the text and photographs of your advertisement at any time provided it is for the same Property. Although we do not 'Approve' changes, we will review them to ensure they meet our Terms of Sale.

property list & search - how it works

Properties are displayed in our directory listings in the following order:
Random Order (updated daily)

Advertisements which have been added recently, use an Availability Calendar or have current Last Minute Deals will be highlighted by apppropriate icons.

In addition one property is displayed randomly as the 'Featured Property' on the home page of the Rentals area.

Users may also Search on properties by Location, Sleeping Capacity and/or a Date Period.

An Advanced Search function allows a user to filter out properties accrding to specific requirements e.g. pool, air conditioning etc.

When dates have been selected, those properties using a calendar will only be displayed if they have availability during the whole period requested. For these searches properties will be prioritised according to the latest calendar update. Properties not using calendars will be displayed in a later section and designated 'Unknown Availability'.

further queries

If you have any more questions or comments to make regarding advertising on this site, please contact us.