Merhaba, Yassu, and Hello!! For two weeks this past September, I had the opportunity to cross off two countries from my “Places to Visit Bef...
Penguin 2.0 Launched Yesterday
BREAKING: Yesterday, Google published an update to their much-feared Penguin algorithm, called Penguin 2.0. Penguin is designed to penalize websites that practice spammy SEO techniques to manipulate Google’s search engine results in their own favor. Techniques that received penalties included exact-match ancho...
Free Whitepaper – Hotel Booking Engines
Securing online reservations for hotels is a complicated process. It must take into consideration various currencies, languages, locations, taxes, pre-existing financial arrangements, pre-sold inventory, various inventory distributors, and more. Getting an online booking engine set-up so that hoteliers can accept direc...
Content Marketing for Hotels
How to produce compelling content that can put your hotel in the spotlight. Content marketing is quickly becoming a tired buzz-word in the SEO community. It is such a popular topic because it is one of the only SEO strategies that works well and is unlikely to be penalized by Google in the future. Despite being a bu...
Must-read Monday: News You May Have Missed
Each week, the buuteeq team scours the web for the latest news and trends in hospitality, marketing, and tech that hoteliers need to know about to be successful. Here are the must-read articles you may have missed last week: 1) Google+ Redesign Looks a Lot Like Facebook, Pinterest 2) Top 5 Hotel SEO Mistakes 3) Soc...
Top 5 Hotel SEO Mistakes
Google’s search wizard Matt Cutts released a short video explaining the 5 most frequent SEO mistakes made by website owners and SEOs. Here they are, in order: 1) Failure to have a website, or making it invisible to Google robots. Some hoteliers have told me that having a directory listing, or a micro-site on a ...
Must-read Monday: News You May Have Missed
Each week, the buuteeq team scours the web for the latest news and trends in hospitality, marketing, and tech that hoteliers need to know about to be successful. Here are the must-read articles you may have missed last week: 1) Snickers Catches Bad Spellers With Smart Google Ads 2) buuteeq Teams Up with Choice Hotel...
Trotamundo
Intern Travels – Erika in Rio de Janeiro
buuteeq intern Erika travels to Rio de Janeiro to explore the local scenery, culture and people. Here is her story, with photos!
Trotamundo – Andrew & Amy’s Adventures
Working at buuteeq can involve a lot of travel. I spend much of my time travelling across the country to attend tourism conventions and asso...
Trotamundo: Jose Claro’s China Trip
With my beautiful wife, we decided to go on vacation. We had almost bought tickets for the Caribbean and I said “Why don’t we go to China?...
Magical Luxury Hotels in Andalusia Spain
I had the pleasure of visiting an absolutely lovely pair of luxury boutique properties in Spain’s southern Andalusia region that are own...
London Calling — my visit with our partners & friends in England
I visited London last week and had a wonderful time checking in with various mentors and partners in the region. My trip started with a high...
Trotamundo – Brandon’s Trip to Victoria, BC
buuteeq has a number of great employee perks. One of them is a company supported trip for employees anywhere in the world, which buuteeq will ...
Trotamundo 2011: Karen Salazar in the Philippines
For two and a half weeks, I travelled through the beautiful Philippine islands. The Philippines is colorful, loud, welcoming, crowded, b...
Trotamundo: Dennis Wu @ Napa Valley Trip
Napa Valley, located in northern California, is one of the loveliest places you’ll ever visit, with its rocky mountain peaks behind r...
Ho’oilo House – Dean’s Trotamundo to Maui, Hawaii
Adventuring in Maui When my wife, Tami, and I began planning for a trip to Maui in October 2011, I called the owners of a luxurious six-room...
