analytics
Diving into Hotel SEO? Focus on Local Search First
Perhaps more than any other industry, hospitality is tied to its location. While retail and office work have moved to the internet, hotels remain offline to a certain extent. The […]
Predictive Analytics for Hotels: Look to the Future for Big Results
Until recently, hotel owners and managers have been limited to using historical data to predict future performance. Hoteliers have depended on occupancy as the gold standard for revenue generation. NB: […]
When Are Highest Value Leads Generated on Google Hotel Ads?
When it comes to metasearch traffic, the data for determining weekly trends for your account is readily available. We wanted to take it a step further to get a better […]
Revenue Metrics Are Evolving: Average Room Rate Becomes Two for One
The previous methods of ADR (Average Daily Rate) calculations are not good enough any longer. In the fast-paced world of the hotel industry the ecosystem of distribution channels and methods […]
5 free SEO tools to improve your hotel’s search engine performance
Despite Google’s relentless expansion of its advertising platforms, which have pushed organic search results further down the page, organic traffic still makes up most of a hotel’s online traffic and […]
Google Analytics: A Hotelier’s Guide
The ‘freemium’ web analytics service is the most widely-used of its kind in the world, and for good reason: it can give you almost any insight you need into the […]
Improving Hotel Organic Search Performance with Structured Data
Many hoteliers have experienced a similar trend with their organic traffic from Google: it is decreasing. Over the last several years, Google has drastically changed the way they present websites […]
Marketing initiatives: are they really worth it?
Tom Bacon shares marketing lessons from Choice Hotels, and taps his own personal experience to find that marketing spend is more complicated than you think How do you assess the […]
How to Ensure Your Booking Engine Tracks Correctly in Google Analytics
If you are like most hoteliers, you have a website that links to a booking engine which sits on a domain other than your own. Having more than one domain […]
How Google Plans to Kill ‘Last Click Attribution’
Google says it wants to rid marketers of their obsession with the last click before consumers buy things. Instead it aims to provide insights about how earlier ad dollars perform […]