There are two types of tactics in digital marketing strategy for hotels i.e. inbound tactics & outbound tactics. Their goal is to drive traffic to your website and convert this traffic into bookings.
Inbound tactics such as website development, doing seo, investing in SEM, Social Media, listing on OTAs, etc.
outbound tactics included run campaigns through email, mobile ads, advertising etc.
Not only SEO, SEM is a major strategy for hotel’s internet marketing but also marketers must consider local SEO, display ad network, optimization for OTAs, email campaigns, etc strategies for better results.
Let’s evaluate some of these hotel-specific digital marketing strategies that can help to increase your hotel Hotel Bookings in 2020
1.Make well-defined digital strategy for Online Travel Agencies
More than 70% of hotel bookings come from Online Travel Agencies. Hotels in India must get listed on MakeMyTrip, Yatra, Trivago,Tripadvisor, etc.regional or national OTAs listings attract a lot of domestic traffic. Moreover, Google’s first page constantly enlist the sites that are local.
So analyzing this, instead of spending too much time on doing SEO and SEM, it would be easy to optimize your listing in leading OTAs by continuously uploading high-quality photos and videos, regularly updating content, providing rates, & increase your positive reviews and 5 stars. Fast responding to negative reviews is crucial for online reputation management (ORM).
2.Target local SEO
From the researching keywords, we know that most people search for some form of phrases for hotels, plus the location (E.g., cheap hotels in Mumbai). An optimized Google My Business listing increases the chance of appearing in the Map.
3.Google Display Network and Ad Retargeting
When a potential customer is evaluating hotels, he or she might read relevant posts on hotels, locations, etc. If you have an optimized Display Ad strategy, chances are that a lot of hotel prospects visiting relevant posts would come across your banner Ads and reach your website or landing page. Once you visited Oberoi hotel’s website, when we returned to a totally unrelated website, we could still see them. We visited other hotels as well but not many were seen again because they are not using Google Ads as well as they have not enabled Ad retargeting..
4. Don't ignore social channels-
Firstly you can set up your hotel profile and showcase your hotel by sharing maximum photos, videos exhibit your amenities, promotional packages, offers etc. Notably, you should have the booking engine integrated with social media, so you can get commision-free bookings from here as well.
To know more about Internet Marketing services to improve hotel bookings, you can reach us at: https://www.crayoninfotech.com/digital-marketing/
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