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Why Everyone Should Be On Your Hotel’s Digital Marketing Team
How do you generate the massive amounts of content needed to fuel your hotel’s digital marketing strategy? Especially when there’s a limited number of people (you alone?!) on your team? The good news is, the answer is right in front of you. Every employee, guest and supplier is a potential source of content that can help your [...]
Optimize Your Hotel’s Facebook Page to Drive More Direct Bookings
Get practical tips for how to improve your hotel's visibility in Facebook search results, and how to optimize your Facebook page to convert visitors into direct bookings.
Is Facebook the Next Google? Facebook’s Search Functionality Explained
Facebook is now the second largest advertising seller behind Google. But, according to Facebook’s CFO, David Ebersman, the amount of Facebook ads being shown to its users is reaching a saturation point. For the company to continue to grow, it needs to find new revenue streams. Surprisingly, where Facebook might see the most [...]
How a Vanity Website Can Complement Your Brand’s Digital Marketing Efforts
Being part of a chain offers many advantages to hotel owners; name recognition, access to established loyalty programs, more booking channels, and marketing resources. But even with all these benefits at your disposal, there are still things you can do to drive more direct bookings for your hotel – initiatives which complement [...]
Why The Right Hotel Images Are SO Important for Your OTA Listings
Your hotel images are the one feature you can really control on OTA sites. They are the single most important way to convey your unique story and become part of a traveler’s consideration set. Learn what hotel images travel shoppers want to see the most, and how a digital brochure can help you serve up the right content on [...]
Machine Learning: How Google is Helping Hoteliers Get Smarter with Search
Google's advancements in data collection & machine learning can help hoteliers get in front of the right people, at the right time, with the right message. Read this excerpt from Jennifer Wesley, our webinar guest speaker last week, to learn more.
Webinar Recap: Smart SEO Strategies to Drive Direct Bookings
In our recent webinar, we were joined by Jennifer Wesley from Google to discuss smart SEO strategies to drive direct bookings. Learn how the rise of mobile is reshaping the travel shopping journey, how machine-learning can help you better target travel shoppers, and strategies to get your website ranking higher in search engine [...]
Do You Own Your Website Domain? The Common Mistake Made by Hoteliers
Your website domain is incredibly valuable to your hotel. It’s a part of your intellectual property, essential to your digital marketing, and helps drive revenue through direct bookings. Because it's so valuable, you can't afford to entrust someone else to purchase it for you. Here's what can happen if you do...
3 Tips to Reduce Booking Abandonment on Your Hotel Website
Booking abandonment is a real issue for the travel industry. As many as 81.6% of online travel bookings are abandoned, worth an estimated $1.78 trillion! In this article, we outline 3 things you can do right now on your hotel website to improve purchase intent and drive more direct bookings.
Search Strategies to Protect Your Branded Keywords
When it comes to SEO, hotel marketers may consider what long-tail keywords they want to rank for, but overlook the importance of protecting their own branded keywords as well. In this article, we explain how to “protect your base” and rank strongly for your own branded keywords. Because if you don’t, your competitors will.