Explore Iceland Rental Cars
How an Iceland car rental company strengthened its SEO, expanded its website content, improved technical search structure and connected multiple websites to one reservation system with VEVS.
Explore Iceland Rental Cars
- Website
- exploreicelandrentalcars.com
- Location
- Iceland
- Business
- Car rental and airport delivery
- Operation
- Keflavik Airport, Reykjavik and Iceland
- VEVS services
- Software, website, setup, support, custom development and SEO
Company Overview
Explore Iceland Rental Cars is an Iceland car rental company focused on making arrival, pickup and return as straightforward as possible for international visitors. A key part of its service is direct vehicle delivery at Keflavik International Airport, allowing customers to avoid the traditional rental desk and move quickly from the airport to their trip.
The business serves customers searching for car rentals in Iceland, Reykjavik and Keflavik Airport, including travellers planning road trips, airport pickups and longer journeys around the country. The company uses its own website as an important direct-booking and customer information channel.
Explore Iceland Rental Cars also differentiates its customer journey through practical airport delivery and return procedures. The client described vehicles being delivered directly at Keflavik Airport and returned to the designated airport parking area, creating a simple process designed around the needs of arriving and departing travellers.
What makes the business different
- Direct car delivery at Keflavik Airport
- Airport-focused customer experience
- Direct online reservations
- Car rental services for Iceland travellers
- SEO focus on Reykjavik and Keflavik Airport searches
- Multiple customer-facing websites connected to one system
- Flexible website content and booking setup
The Challenge
Explore Iceland Rental Cars needed its VEVS website and rental platform to support not only reservations, but also a broader growth strategy built around stronger organic visibility, airport-focused positioning and expansion to additional customer-facing websites.
The existing website was relatively small, with around ten pages, while the client wanted to compete for valuable searches such as “car rentals in Iceland,” “Reykjavik car rental” and “Keflavik Airport car rental.” The site needed more targeted content, clearer information architecture and SEO-friendly page URLs without losing the value of existing links.
At the same time, the business wanted greater control over how vehicles were presented on the homepage and later expanded to a second car rental website with a separate domain and design. That second site still needed to share the same underlying vehicles, locations and reservation system, requiring custom configuration, DNS work, testing and synchronization by the VEVS team.
The VEVS Solution
VEVS combined standard software configuration, consultation, website work and targeted custom development instead of forcing Explore Iceland Rental Cars to change its business process to fit a fixed system.
SEO strategy built around high-value Iceland car rental searches
The client initially supplied a broad list of potential search topics covering Iceland car rental, airport rentals, insurance, road trips, F-roads, discounts and other traveller questions. With a relatively compact website, trying to target every phrase equally would have diluted the SEO focus.
VEVS researched the keyword set and narrowed it to a practical primary and secondary strategy. The main focus included “car rentals in Iceland,” “Reykjavik car rental” and “Keflavik Airport car rental,” supported by related airport terms and location references. This gave the website a clearer search strategy based on the pages and content available.
Expanded website content and airport-delivery positioning
The website needed more substantial content to support organic visibility and better explain what made the company different. In particular, Explore Iceland Rental Cars wanted to emphasize its direct vehicle delivery service at Keflavik Airport and make that value proposition more visible to travellers.
VEVS expanded and reworked the website content, including the Home, About Us, Services and Airport Car Rentals pages. The team also revised blog content and incorporated appropriate keywords while preserving the client’s operational details. New Services and Airport Car Rentals content helped turn the website into a stronger information and acquisition channel.
301 redirects for SEO-friendly page URLs
As pages were renamed and reorganized for clearer search targeting, important URLs also changed. Without proper redirects, visitors and search engines following the old addresses could reach missing pages and previously accumulated SEO value could be weakened.
VEVS configured permanent 301 redirects for five important pages: About Us, Fleet, Reservation, Locations and FAQ. Each old address now points to the corresponding new, descriptive URL, allowing the website structure to improve while maintaining continuity for existing links and search-engine crawling.
Custom homepage fleet presentation
The standard homepage fleet widget displayed vehicle details, but the client wanted more control over the message presented to website visitors. The goal was to use the available space for meaningful short descriptions rather than the default vehicle-detail content.
VEVS made a targeted custom modification to the homepage fleet widget so it displays each vehicle’s short description in place of the standard vehicle details. This gave Explore Iceland Rental Cars more control over its homepage messaging and aligned the fleet presentation with the broader content and SEO strategy.
A second car rental website using the same reservation system
The client wanted to launch another car rental website on a different domain with its own design and content management setup, but did not want to operate a separate rental database. Vehicles, locations and reservations needed to remain connected to the existing operation.
VEVS created and configured the additional website account, connected the new domain and synchronized the rental module with the existing system. After testing, both customer-facing websites were using the same reservation system, allowing the company to expand its online presence without duplicating core rental operations.
DNS, domain and technical launch support
Connecting an additional website required more than creating pages. The domain had to point to the correct infrastructure, and conflicting DNS records could cause some visitors to reach the wrong destination or fail to access the correct website consistently.
VEVS guided the client through the required A record configuration, identified conflicting IPv6/AAAA records and verified the DNS changes before completing the software synchronization. The team also handled the wider hosting and technical setup needed to keep the websites connected to the VEVS environment.
The process combined the website builder with hands-on marketing assistance, giving Explore Iceland Rental Cars a stronger content base for organic search and direct customer acquisition.
Ongoing consultation, setup and website optimization
The client repeatedly relied on VEVS expertise for decisions that crossed software, website and marketing boundaries—from initial domain setup and Google Maps/SMTP configuration to SEO planning, content reviews and discussions about how airport delivery and insurance information should be presented.
VEVS provided ongoing ticket support, consultations and content review rather than treating the project as a one-time software installation. The team helped configure the website, reviewed sensitive operational information, advised on navigation and content structure, and adjusted the solution as the business expanded.
Results
- 5 permanent SEO redirects configured: the old About Us, Fleet, Reservation, Locations and FAQ URLs were redirected to their new search-friendly page addresses.
- Focused keyword strategy: VEVS narrowed a broad keyword list to 3 main targets plus supporting airport and location terms appropriate for the size of the website.
- 4 key pages reworked: Home, About Us, Services and Airport Car Rentals were revised around the client’s services, airport-delivery model and agreed SEO direction.
- New website content added: Services and Airport Car Rentals expanded the site beyond its original structure, supported by revised blog content.
- 2 websites, 1 reservation system: the original site and the additional car rental website were configured to use the same underlying reservation operation.
- More flexible homepage merchandising: the fleet widget now uses vehicle short descriptions instead of the standard detail block.
- Hands-on technical support: VEVS assisted with domain pointing, DNS cleanup, software synchronization, website configuration and ongoing SEO/content consultation.
Conclusion
The Explore Iceland Rental Cars project shows how VEVS can combine car rental software, website technology and hands-on services around a company’s growth priorities. The work went beyond reservations to include SEO strategy, content creation, technical URL changes, website customization and multi-site expansion.
Instead of requiring separate systems for each website or leaving the client to coordinate technical and marketing changes alone, VEVS provided one connected platform backed by consultation, configuration and custom development.
What VEVS Provided
Central reservations, fleet and rental operations
Direct booking and customer-facing content
Keyword research, on-site optimization and content strategy
Fleet widget changes and multi-site integration
Domains, DNS, synchronization and website configuration
Content, navigation, SEO and operational guidance
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