Should Hospitality Embrace or Ignore Google AMPs?
Introduced in 2016 as Google’s response to other mobile publishing platforms like Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles, Google’s AMP (short for Accelerated Mobile Pages) began to spark interest amongst […]
Google Testing A New Mobile Experience for Hotel Ads
This weekend I was looking for something fun to do as a family for Mother’s Day, and I decided to check for same-day hotel stays in some nearby staycation towns. […]
Does my hotel social media help improve my SEO?
SEO, three little letters that are immensely important to the success of your hotel. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves maximizing the number of visitors to your website by ensuring it […]
New User Experience for Google Hotel Ads
Google recently launched a filtering update to their desktop hotel search landing page that provides a more detailed experience for the user. These changes appear when the user selects “More […]
Dear Google, lend the travel industry your ears, please
While Google is busy moving up the trip-planning funnel and perfecting the customer experience, there are questions the industry wants answering. ‘How do you get from Paris to Berlin?’ ‘What […]
As Google pivot to “AI first” what does it mean for the travel sector
At ITB Berlin in March 2017, Google announced that it now considers itself an “AI-first” company, moving away from its mobile-first position. This fascinating shift in focus reveals how […]
% of New Sessions Missing: Changes to Google Analytics Metrics
For users of Google’s Premium Analytics services, you may have noticed a slight change in the way that default metrics are being displayed. Google has removed the % New Sessions, […]
How to optimize your hotel’s presence on Google
Terri Scriven is the Head of Hospitality for Google UK, which means working with hotels and accommodation providers in Europe and beyond to help them to optimise their digital distribution […]
Eye tracking for Google hotel searches: Old rules no longer apply
When one of the first eye-tracking studies on Google search engine results pages (SERPs) came out in 2005, researchers from Mediative discovered that there was a distinct pattern to the way […]
How Can Hotels Use Google to Maximise their Online Presence?
Google acquired Zagat in 2011 back in the years when Marissa Mayer was a part of Google. They were experimenting Hotel finder in same year, 2 years later they introduced […]
