My STR only gets booking from airbnb

[Yitzchok Carmen]

Hi All,

So I have a cabin in the smokies on both Airbnb and VRBO. I have so far had about 30 bookings and every single one has been from airbnb. Not  a single one from VRBO despite the fact that the VRBO prices are significantly lower and that I had eight 5 star reviews that were transferred over from Evolve. (I used to use Evolve before switching to self managing. interestingly with Evolve I got more VRBO than airbnb). I suppose it doesnt really matter as long as the dates are getting booked but I am uncomfortable with the fact that airbnb has so much control over my property, (esp in light of the last couple months), I feel like I need to diversify where the bookings are coming from somewhat. Does anyone know any tips to get VRBO bookings/ boost the listing or any other decent platform that will actually get bookings? I am not paying the $500 annual fee on VRBO as officially that doesnt make any dif in the ranking of your listing but I am starting to wonder if that is really true....?

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated,

Thank you!