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Commonly misunderstood, Google’s local search algorithm is a beast unto itself and performs very differently from its counterpart, the organic search algorithm. The local algorithm refers to everything that comes together to form the ‘three/four-pack’. These are the top results that are shown to you when you do […]

In April 2019 Google released a survey to a select number of business owners that had a Google My Business (GMB) listing. The survey highlighted Google’s intent to monetise elements of a GMB listing by giving those who had received the survey a list of features and asking […]

August 2019 saw the launch of a ‘Hotel Attributes’ section within Google My Business (GMB). The launch of this new section has greatly expanded the tools that hoteliers have at their disposal to influence the way their information is displayed across the Google ecosystem. The first indication that […]

Over the past few months, Google has been experimenting with different layouts and design for hotel search results and as of October 29th it looks like they have rolled out a new design for this service. The new design still shows a map of hotels in your desired […]

As we all know, Google are constantly working on improving their products and making search results more relevant for individual queries. As some of you might have already noticed, for selected hotel-related searches, Google has begun returning results with quite an insightful graph representing room rate trends. It […]