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
You may have heard about some changes coming to Google’s Maps API. They have announced that certain Maps products will now have charges associated with them. This is what we know. For the most part, this will mainly apply to … Continue reading
If you haven’t looked at your Knowledge Panel in a while, or don’t even know what a Knowledge Panel IS – this is the post for you. Google has added a feature to the knowledge panel – it’s a “Questions … Continue reading
Pop-ups, also called Interstitials, are simply a space or visual display that appears on the screen or mobile device to communicate a message to the user. These spaces may contain special deals, newsletter signup forms, and other various calls to … Continue reading
You may have recently recieved an email from Google that looks like this: When you follow the “Fix Index coverage issues” link, you see something like this: And when you click on the error, you see something like this: This … Continue reading
You may have received the notice from Google Analytics below. Google Analytics has already set the default for your historical User-Level and Event-Level data retention date to 26 Months. That means starting on May 25th, 2018 any User-Level and Event-Level … Continue reading
