Search Engine Marketing Checklist for Hotel Marketers
There are four key channels consumers use when searching for and booking hotels online. These four major online channelsare:
Unless a hotel booking engine website has a stronger brand value than that of major competitors where the majority of Web traffic will be direct traffic the most effective channel for generating optimum traffic is from search engines.
Here is a checklist for hotel marketers looking to maximize hotel bookings in multiple Asian markets (including China) from search marketing.
In paid search accounts, including Google AdWords, Baidu Tuiguang, Bing Ads, and any other local specific search engine accounts, ensure all brand keywords and brand variation keywords are covered, and are all pointing to your hotel booking homepage as the landing page.
Ensure all keywords (and/or all the variations) of the top 100 or even the top 1,000 destinations are covered, and pointing to the correct destination hotel search result page as landing pages.
Keywords (and/or all the variations) of the top 500 or even the top 5,000 hotel names should also be covered, and ensure they are pointing to the individual detailed hotel pages as landing pages.
See the example below:
You should also review the budget being spent on each type of keyword by reviewing the number of bookings and revenues generated from each type of keyword, and the performance of ads for each keyword.
A hotel booking engine website should always have three major page types and they normally serve well as landing pages for both paid search campaigns and search engine optimization campaigns:
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Search Engine Marketing Checklist for Hotel Marketers