Case study · Holiday rentals, two houses on one hectare
monslívius
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: 149 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 11/10/2026
- times shown on Google
- 1,569
- clicks
- 14
- average position
- 22.6
- different searches
- 149
- 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.
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 8 October: shown 1,569 times, 149 different searches, 14 clicks.
- ▸13 of those searches come up on the first page; "villa Silves" is 15th with 97 impressions, "villa Portimão" 13th.
- ▸A booking came through Google within a few weeks — the owner told us; not a click, a customer.
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Start my projectThe searches that bring it up, and where it lands
- 🔍"villa silves" — 15th, 97 impressions
- 🔍"villa portimao" — 13th
- 🔍"casa con piscina privada algarve" — 16th
- 🔍"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
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