Flywheel News | May 2023 Hotel Digital Marketing News | GCommerce
- June Marks The Last Month Google Universal Analytics Will Process Data
As you read this, you’re currently in the last month that data will flow into your Google Universal Analytics account. If you don’t have GA4 setup by now, there’s a good chance you won’t have any analytics data available for your site for website traffic past June 30th. Reach out to GCommerce today if you’re unsure or need assistance on where to start with your GA4 setup.
- Google Ads Sitelinks vs Promo Extensions For Short Term Deals - What’s Better?
In the world of Google Ads, ad extensions (now referred to as assets) give your valuable extra real estate and call-outs in the SERP. But which ones are better for advertising your hotel’s short term/flash sales, sitelinks or promotion extensions? Read more in one of our recent tests.
- Google Marketing Live Focuses on AI in 2023
As the industry continues to lean into AI, Google’s Marketing Live 2023 seemed to focus solely on it’s investment of incorporating AI into all facets of it’s products. Exciting announcements included AI generated campaign builds, helping to automatically create text and images and better match messaging to search queries. We’re also pretty excited to test out the newest campaign types announced at GML23, most notably the Demand Gen campaign type which seems to target a social media style ad placement and “will show across YouTube Shorts, YouTube in-stream, YouTube in-feed, Discover, and Gmail to drive conversions”.
- Hotel Metasearch Channels Overview
Overwhelmed with all the different metasearch options? Metasearch marketing has been a proven way to increase bookings for your hotel, but there are many options in this space. Check out this quick-start guide to determine the best option for your hotel. Learn more here.
- How To Choose The Best Marketing KPIs
Not sure what KPIs you should be focusing on to judge the success of your hotel marketing campaigns? Read our blog post on how to choose the best marketing KPIs.
- Meta Announces AI Powered Ad Tools
Similar to Google’s use of AI, Meta is also incorporating AI into it’s platforms and tools to help provide more personalized advertising as well as give advertisers more text and image AI tools. Learn more here.
- FAQs for the Hotel Digital Marketer
Find the answers to some of the most commonly asked questions in hotel digital marketing in this insightful blog. What questions would you add to the list?
- Bing Chat Adds Visuals To Travel Queries
Bing Chat has now added more visuals to travel queries with links directly into Bing’s Travel Planner. Our hopes is that this means more impressions for the high ROAS yet low volume Bing Hotel ads placements. Learn more here.
