It’s important to make sure your Google My Business (GMB) listing is up to date. This information feeds not only Google Hotel Search, but also your Knowledge Panel, which is the information displayed on Google when someone searches for your … Continue reading
If you attended our Webinar on July 31st, 2019, you learned about all the various ways currently available to implement Google Hotel Ads, whether it be via JackRabbit’s Meta Search product or through your Booking Engine, for those Booking Engines … Continue reading
Google Plus (G+) has been on the decline for quite a while. Many business pages were devalued and deleted by Google for disuse in the past year. Google has announced that Google Plus profiles will be shutting down for good … Continue reading
There is a provider in our industry that is offering a FREE website for a year, and then you might end up only paying $25 a month or $50 a month to LEASE the site. No, it’s not a portable … Continue reading
You may have seen something interesting when you were looking at your Google My Business Dashboard: You think – “Well! Google is giving me a little website, I should set it up!”. Don’t do it. These websites are meant for … Continue reading
Many thanks to Darren Shaw for his work in publishing the 2018 Local Search Ranking Factors. BTW: Absolutely LOVED the new survey format you provided the participants to use this year! Acorn Internet Services, Inc. is proud to be included, … Continue reading
The majority of your potential guests do not realize that when they click the BLUE “Book a Room” in Google that they are not booking direct with you — And we have proof. Recently, Acorn Internet Services, Inc. in conjunction … Continue reading
You may have received emails from SEO or Marketing companies that boast of being a “Google Partner”. It sounds really good – wouldn’t a company that is a partner of Google have the best chance of getting you seen in … Continue reading
Google reviews have always been more challenging than other review platforms. At one time, your customer needed to have a Google + account in order to post a review, and those customers were really hard to find! You also had … Continue reading
Direct Bookings have become much more difficult to obtain than they were even 18 -24 months ago. There are many contributing factors as to why this is happening. Many of these reasons have eluded Innkeepers and will continue to do … Continue reading
