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Google Knowledge Graph for Hotels

BREAKING: Today, Google has promoted their knowledge graph carousel to appear in more search queries. While it previously appeared for a select few hotel queries, it now appears for many generic queries like “hotels near Seattle” and “cheap New York hotels”. What is the Knowledge Graph? In May o...

Holiday in Cambodia – Katie’s Trotamundo

I have been fortunate enough to have traveled to a total of 24 countries prior to 2013 and was ecstatic to add Cambodia as my 25th this past April! There is a very particular charm about Southeast Asia and the level of hospitality is unmatched anywhere else in the world (that I have been to). I spent two weeks travel...

HR, Culture, and TinyPulse

Forest and Cynthia sit down to chat about buuteeq’s company culture and how TinyPulse allows employees to easily and anonymously voice their concerns to management. A fascinating glimpse into how young, innovative tech startups function. Transcript Forest: Hi I’m For...

Free Whitepaper – Mobile Hotel Websites

Having a website is simply not enough anymore. The use of mobile devices to make travel plans and book rooms is increasing every day, while desktop Internet use will soon be supplanted. Online transactions are an important part of a hotel’s revenue stream, and increasingly, these transactions are made from mobile dev...

Surviving Penguin 2.0 – A Data Deep Dive

Penguin 2.0 launched exactly two weeks ago, on May 22. As I promised, here is my deep-dive into the data, to see exactly how much (if at all) Google’s dreaded Penguin 2.0 update affected our clients. For this report, I’ll, compare the average visits of all our clients, two weeks before Penguin 2.0 and two weeks aft...

A New Record – 4 Hotel Websites Live in 24 Hours

When our new clients, the Malibu Hotel Group, signed up with us, they gave their previous web hosting company a courtesy call, informing them that they were switching services. In response, that hosting company immediately turned off all their websites. The Malibu Hotel Group was in a dire situation! We hated to see t...