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Google Destination Search Update Brings Promoted Hotels to Prominence

Google has updated its Destination Search layout after the initial reintroduction of Promoted Hotels. This update has big implications for the future of Promoted Hotels and their value to advertisers.

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Google Reintroduces Promoted Hotels to Hotel Search

After a brief appearance during 2018, the long-awaited and high-impact product from Google, Promoted Hotels, is back on the front pages of Google Hotel Search.

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3 Ways To Use Google Analytics And Find Customer Booking Behavior

Curious to know which package booked well last year, who is the most profitable guest, or why bookings are down? Google Analytics uncovers insights surrounding your website visitors.

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Google My Business for Hotels: 9 Ways to Optimize Your Listing

Anyone can answer questions on your Google My Business listing. Therefore, it’s best to frequently review your listing and make sure potential guests are seeing the correct answers

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Analysis of Google’s Room Booking Module and Its Impact on Direct Sales

We should not ignore possible “cannibalisation” between Room Booking Module and Hotel Ads. We have no data on this, but it’s something that might well exist.

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Google Signals Its Vacation Rental Ambitions

Google is making a push to professionalize and increase its portfolio of vacation rental offerings, and that means enlisting property managers, and entering into new partnerships.

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The Simple Google Analytics Guide for Hoteliers

Invest the short time you have for Google Analytics in the mentioned datasets and you’ll start to build an idea of how your website is performing and what needs to be done to improve direct bookings

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Google Hotel Ads: Everything You Need to Know

Where do most travelers begin planning their trips? Is it on Booking.com, Expedia or TripAdvisor? Not likely. Think about your own web activity. Most of us start our initial research […]

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Recent Google My Business Changes for Hotels

This hints that Google is not only putting more focus on building out Google My Business data to improve its hotel search user experience but that they may also drop TrustYou as a data provider.

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How Important Are Google Reviews?

Online reviews from regular people (well, the legit ones anyway), are typically uninfluenced by external factors and give a genuine, ‘real’ insight into the quality of the property.

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