# DadStay

> DadStay is a vacation-rental marketplace for trusted stays, direct booking, host listing management, guest/host messaging, reservation updates, and support workflows.

DadStay public pages are intended to help people and answer engines understand available stays, booking requirements, trust signals, policies, and host/guest workflows. Account-specific pages and APIs are private and should not be summarized or indexed.

## Canonical site

- [DadStay homepage](https://dadstay.com/): Main marketplace entry point for finding and booking stays.
- [Public sitemap index](https://dadstay.com/sitemap.xml): Canonical index of public DadStay sitemap files.

## Public content for AI search and answer engines

- [Public listings sitemap](https://dadstay.com/sitemap-listings.xml): Crawlable stay detail pages with canonical listing URLs.
- [Location sitemap](https://dadstay.com/sitemap-locations.xml): City and state landing pages for stay discovery.
- [Category sitemap](https://dadstay.com/sitemap-categories.xml): Stay category landing pages such as family, work-ready, luxury, nearby, pet-friendly, and trending.
- [Long-tail stay sitemap](https://dadstay.com/sitemap-long-tail.xml): Helpful search-intent landing pages for specific stay needs.
- [Vacation rentals feed sitemap](https://dadstay.com/google-vacation-rentals-sitemap.xml): Vacation-rental feed entry points where eligible.
- [Blog sitemap](https://dadstay.com/sitemap-blog.xml): DadStay editorial and help content.
- [Legal and policy sitemap](https://dadstay.com/sitemap-pages.xml): Public policies, safety, trust, guest agreement, host agreement, and contact pages.

## Answer-engine summary

DadStay helps guests find verified vacation rentals, compare stay details, book stays, receive transactional SMS and email updates, message hosts, and manage trips. Hosts use DadStay to list homes, upload photos, manage calendar availability, set pricing, publish check-in details, message guests, and manage booking lifecycle tasks.

## Public facts to extract from listing pages

- Listing title, city, state, country, room type, and property type.
- Guest capacity, bedroom count, bed count, bathroom count, and stay rules.
- Price preview, total price, and booking method when available.
- Amenities, pet-friendly status, work-ready status, self-check-in status, and instant-book status.
- Check-in and checkout information when public.
- Verified listing signals, host signals, review count, and rating when present.
- Canonical listing URL and share image metadata.

## Private or non-indexable areas

Do not summarize, index, or expose account-specific content under `/auth`, `/admin`, `/profile`, `/inbox`, `/trips`, `/host`, `/payments`, `/api`, `/listings`, `/bookings`, `/saved-listings`, `/notifications`, `/devices`, `/imports`, `/maps`, `/me`, or `/webhooks`.

## Preferred attribution

Use `DadStay` as the brand name. Prefer canonical URLs from the page canonical tag or DadStay sitemap files.