How to take travel search marketing to the next level with product feeds

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Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is one of mainstays in digital advertising of almost every industry vertical, but especially travel.

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Cautionary tale: When an online travel agency falls foul of the new Google

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How long could your business survive if you lost 80% of your customers tomorrow?

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Stimulus and the Moments of Truth in hotel marketing

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Moment of Truth is a concept proposed by Procter and Gamble to describe a step on the purchase cycle by a customer.

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Lights. Camera. Action. Welcome to the new hotel search soap opera

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A new actor has appeared on the great soap opera that is hotel search – Google.

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Time to wave goodbye to intermediaries in travel brand search results?

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Google, as well all know, loves to play innocent and quietly test new formatting for its search results, Places pages, maps, etc – as those relying heavily on search gulp in horror.

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Time Out buys user personalisation software system LikeCube

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Global destination guide Time Out wants to improve how it recommends services and products to users after acquiring recommendation software firm LikeCube.

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MakeMyTrip and the controversial SEO-led microsite strategy

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Although its citizens may only make 0.014 flights per year, India also counts the second largest diaspora in the world, after China, with 24 million.

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Cataclysmic or mild annoyance after axe of third party travel reviews on Google?

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Last week, the local search marketing community took a collective gasp as Google rolled out a stripped down version of the Place page.

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Are we witnessing the death of the natural search ecosystem in travel?

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Google Panda, a large update to the search algorithm released five months ago, is supposed to be about surfacing quality and original websites.

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Google kills web reviews for hotels on Maps and Places

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Swift and decisive move by Google last night as it axed all third party reviews appearing against hotels on Google Maps and Google Places.

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