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Archive for the ‘seo’ Category

How Can Social Search Impact my Hotel?

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

In late October Bing announced that it would integrate Twitter into its search engine results pages, and within hours Google announced that it too would include Twitter updates. I am sure people thought, ‘That’s great news, but how will that impact me and my business?’ As hoteliers, this could have a huge impact on your business if you are not participating in social media and communicating through today’s social platforms.

Google’s goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant, and fastest search in the world. It doesn’t get much faster than if you are including up to the minute data. Their view is that the next time you search for a hotel, you can be aided by a real-time observation. (more…)

How to Edit, Export, and Upload your Hotel Videos – Easy Technical Tips

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

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Videos are extremely popular on the internet and hotels can greatly benefit from this exciting medium. Potential guests are tired of hearing about how great a hotel is – they want to see it for themselves. Videos can strengthen your online presence, drive more traffic to your website, and help you achieve a higher ranking position in the search engine results pages.

The emergence of social media has shaken up the traditional ways of marketing and has created new channels that allow you to interact with your guests instead of just selling to them. Guests now have access to user-generated content, including review sites such as TripAdvisor, and they want a human voice and information that tells them the real deal about your hotel including the positives and negatives.

So how should videos be used today? Well the answer is in many ways. We still recommend that you have professionally shot promotional videos about your hotel and city. You should not attempt to create this type of video yourself because it could be a lower quality and have the appearance of a low-budget commercial.

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Video Interview: How Hotels Can Build Links by Leveraging their USP, PR, and Organic Growth

Monday, August 31st, 2009

O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing attended the SEOmoz PRO Training Seminar 2009 and interviewed guest speaker, Tom Critchlow, after his talk, “The Pacman Chunk of the Piechart: Getting Links”.

O’Rourke specializes in the hospitality industry, and we aim to provide your hotel with useful tips on how you can improve your website optimization. Link building plays a major part in increasing your website’s visibility and page rank, and can help your hotel listing rise to the top of the search engine results pages.
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Top Pages from SEOmoz Help you Find Old Domains

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Nick Gerner mentioned the value of using the SEOmoz ‘Top Pages’ tool in his talk, “Make SEO Tools Work for You” at the SEOmoz PRO Training Series.

This tool will analyze your domain, page-by-page, according to the number of linking route domains. It will provide you with valuable information about your domains and links.

With ‘Top Pages on Domain’ you can find old domains that aren’t linking anywhere and need to be re-directed (you can do this with a 301 re-direct).

You can also see what your highest value URLs are and set up internal links from those pages.

Another advantage of using ‘Top Pages on Domain’ is that you can see your competitors’ back links and strongest URLs.

For more information about this tool see the SEOmoz Blog entry on Top Pages on Domain.

SEOmoz PRO Training Series 2009 Begins Today

Monday, August 24th, 2009

The two-day SEOmoz Pro Training Series 2009 begins today! O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing is attending, and we will share with you real-time recaps on SEO tips and tricks from the seminar. Subscribe to the O’Rourke blog through our RSS feed to receive updates. You can also follow the SEOmoz training seminar on Twitter using the official hashtag, #seomoz.

Below is a complete list of the world-class speakers who will be presenting, as well as the two-day agenda: (more…)