Besides improving your profile, you can try to:
- be alerted to sits in an area
- saved searches
- be alerted to sits from specific HOs
- favourite HOs who aren’t currently looking for sits
- facilitate HOs finding you
- manage your TH calendar availability
- set your preferred countries in your profile
- post here in the forums (subject line should be clear and specific: e.g., “looking for sits in New Zealand and Southern Australia, April–May 2023”)
- add info to your profile and update as needed
- build relationships with HOs
- If there’s a sit in your desired area but the dates don’t match, you can apply and kindly provide your info.
- Some HOs may get thrown by this, but if I were an HO, I’d appreciate the proactivity, if I felt the sitter was sincere and not spammy/flaky. Note that the 5-app limit means the HO may reject your “app” to make room, or you can do it yourself. Not sure what notifications/UX the HO receives on their end.
Those are just some ideas. I realize you are doing some already. Good luck!