Google wants to suck you into their world, so you are dependent on them. And, hopefully spend more money in their world. Here are some free tools you can use to help make data driven decisions and understand trends for your market and specific location. Google Trends...
For years, backlinks have been an integral part of search engine optimization (SEO) and the success of top website rankings in Google and other search engines. Hotels are no exception to this standard. Today, major online travel agencies like Expedia and Booking.com...
You have to know your competition to beat your competition. There has been a debate for years, if not decades, about which is “better” – branded vs independent hotels. While we are not going down that road today, it is important for independent...
Stephanie Sparks Smith of Cogwheel Marketing was delighted to join the crew of Hospitality Digital Marketing on September 7, 2019. My savvy (and funny) co-hosts included: -Loren Gray of Hospitality Digital Marketing -Robert Cole of RockCheetah and PhocusWire -Ed St....
There are likely many Marriott properties in your given market, and it is important to distinguish your hotel from other Marriott properties as well as other hotels in your competitive set. Doing Marriott SEO (Search engine optimization) is just one differentiating...
MozCon is a yearly search engine optimization conference held in Seattle. I use their Moz Pro product for things like keyword research, rankings, link opportunity finder and crawl errors but this is by no means a paid post. Let me state up front: I do not do SEO...