Short answer: Beds24 provides a free WordPress plugin with shortcodes, a widget designer for search and booking boxes, and an embeddable booking page. To keep your site fast, load booking components only on the pages that need them, lazy-load the booking page with reserved space, and write your property and room content in WordPress rather than relying on the embed.

Beds24 is one of the most flexible booking systems around, used by holiday rentals, guesthouses and hotels alike. Its booking page is powerful, but when it’s dropped onto a website without care it can slow pages down and hide your content from search engines. Here’s how to get the best of both.

Your Beds24 options on WordPress

  • The Beds24 WordPress plugin adds shortcodes for booking widgets, availability and the booking page.
  • The widget designer in Beds24 lets you create search boxes and booking buttons to match your site.
  • The embedded booking page handles multi-room and multi-property booking with galleries, calendars and pricing.
  • The Beds24 API can show rates and availability directly on your own pages for a fully custom build.

Why booking embeds slow sites down

An embedded booking page loads its own scripts, styles and data from Beds24. If it loads immediately on every page, the browser does that work before the visitor has even scrolled, which hurts Core Web Vitals, the speed measures Google uses. It can also make the page jump as the embed appears.

How to keep it fast

  1. Only load booking components where they’re needed: property pages and the booking page, not your blog or about page.
  2. Lazy-load the booking page so it loads as the visitor scrolls towards it.
  3. Reserve its height so the layout doesn’t shift when it appears.
  4. Keep other scripts light. Every chat widget, tracker and slider adds up.
  5. Use good hosting and caching for the WordPress side of the site.

Content search engines can read

Content inside an embedded booking page is loaded from Beds24, so it largely doesn’t count as your page’s content. Write it in WordPress instead:

  • A page per property, or per room type for guesthouses and hotels.
  • Descriptions, amenities and policies as normal text with clear headings.
  • Area pages that link to the right rooms or properties.
  • The right schema: VacationRental for rental portfolios, LodgingBusiness or Hotel for guesthouses and hotels.

Multilingual sites

Beds24 supports many languages, and plenty of Beds24 users welcome international guests. If you translate your site, set up proper hreflang tags so each language version ranks in its own market, and make sure the booking page matches the visitor’s language.

Housekeeping for SEO

  • Keep booking and search result URLs out of Google’s index.
  • Submit your sitemap in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
  • Test a booking end to end on mobile before launch.

See how I build fast Beds24 websites, or read the full vacation rental SEO guide.