Case study · Holiday rentals, two houses on one hectare

monslívius

Name: Création de site internet sur-mesure
Brand: Ultras-Sites
Price: 1870 EUR
Availability: InStock

Silves, Algarve, Portugal

Measured and written by Tiago Moreira, founder of Ultras-Sites — figures read in Google Search Console, never estimated.

A booking that came from Google

Two houses in the Algarve, a site in fifteen languages: 121 searches bring it up, and the first booking came through Google within a few weeks.

The figures, taken from Search Console

Went live on 10/06/2026 — first impression on 17/06/2026 — taken on 02/09/2026

times shown on Google: 1,050
clicks: 7
average position: 23.5
different searches: 121
in the top three: 1
on page one: 13

Every figure on this page comes from Google Search Console. None of them is a guarantee: they are measurements, in one market, on one date.

What Google sees: Search Console, 7 days

Google Search Console screenshot from 03/09/2026, last 7 days — Google’s figures, not ours. Clicks, impressions and average position, as shown in our account.

Google Search Console, 7 days — 1 clicks · 196 impressions · average position 18.1 — 1 clicks · 196 impressions · average position 18.1

Google Search Console — Top queries, 7 days — clicks and impressions, as shown in our account — Top queries, 7 days — clicks and impressions, as shown in our account

The starting point

▸Two small houses on one hectare near Silves — not a luxury villa, and the site says so plainly.
▸A market held by Booking and Airbnb, where "villa Algarve" is fought over by thousands of listings.
▸Holidaymakers who search in their own language: Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Dutch.

What was built

▸A site in fifteen languages, each home page written in the language it serves — checked on 3 September: fifteen out of fifteen.
▸The truth about the place: two small houses, one hectare, quiet — no villa promise.
▸Pages for the real searches: the private pool, Silves, Portimão, the Algarve with children.
▸An ultra-optimised site for Google, linked page to page, with Search Console connected from day one.

What it produced

▸In Google since 17 June 2026. As of 2 September: shown 1,050 times, 121 different searches.
▸13 of those searches come up on the first page; "villa Silves" is 15th with 95 impressions, "villa Portimão" 13th.
▸A booking came through Google within a few weeks — the owner told us; not a click, a customer.

The searches that bring it up, and where it lands

🔍"villa silves" — 15th, 95 impressions
🔍"villa portimao" — 13th
🔍"casa con piscina privada algarve" — 14th
🔍"casas férias algarve com piscina privada" — 24th: the platforms' territory

What this case proves — and what it does not

This case shows what a small rental can expect from Google against the platforms: not first place on "villa Algarve", but the local searches — Silves, Portimão, the private pool — in the holidaymaker's language. That is where the booking came from. What it does not prove: a full season; we read it every week.

The client’s site : xn--monslvius-k5a.com