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A search for Vacation Rentals in Google My Business will bring up loads of articles on how to set up a vacation rental profile in Google My Business, they all then go on to say, “at the time of writing this Vacation Rentals are against Google My Business Guidelines” I can see vacation rentals (holiday […]
A new change with Google My Business is providing hotels with great opportunities to have their hotel appear within the Hotel Pack (local pack) for content (website mentions) found on the hotels website. This feature within the local pack for all other categories is not new and has been around for some time, but now […]
Hotel Schema is a set of data that enables hotels and other related hospitality websites to embed structured data onto their sites pages, which allows search engines to clearly understand the information being presented to them. Search engines already understand your site and the information you provide, what schema allows a hotel to do, is […]
Local Context is a new solution for travel related businesses that has been created by Google Maps. It enables you to embed a curated Google Map on your site that allows you to integrate local information for the user to explore the local area without having to leave your site. Providing Local Information to […]
This is a timely reminder to hotels to check for any new updates to their attributes in Google My Business. Attribute Updates Updates are available across all sections: Internet Food and drink Policies & payments Activities Services Children Pools Parking & transport Wellness Accessibility Business & events Pets Some New Features Ability […]
The hotel industry is being decimated currently during COVID-19 and its high time the hotel industry purges themselves of Google and Online Travel Agents (OTA). Well, okay not so much Google but if they organised themselves they could give Google a spanking it will not forget for their treatment by Google during this unprecedented time. […]
C’mon Google My Business, its high time you allow Hotels to use Google Posts in this time of COVID-19 where quarantined guests need information more then ever. There are currently hundreds of thousands of people quarantined inside hotels and Google is still resisting enabling of Google Posts for hotels, you can see what they restrict […]
Yesterday (6th August 2019) some hotel categories available in Google My Business were removed. They had been restricting newly verified listings the ability to add old categories for the past month, yesterday they removed them all for currently verified listings. Google did say that removed categories would be replaced with new similar categories, however this […]
Google Maps announced that you could now find Holiday Lets on Google Maps (they have been working on this since 2017). What is particularly scary about these revenue spam listings is that there is no way to police them, either through “Suggest Edit” or via the Google My Business Spam report. So @googlemaps announces […]
Hotel Affiliate site tophotelsnearme.net is currently hijacking hotels Google My Business listings and replacing their official website URL with their own links. I was alerted to this by Craig Harkins and the #StopCrapOnTheMap hashtag that the Local SEO community uses to alert each other of local shenanigans. https://t.co/olTRsh3NE6 is suggesting edits to hotel GMB […]
