Google Hotel Ads to Offer Pay-Per-Stay Model
June 2, 2020 |
Hotel
Recently, Google announced updates to its metasearch advertising (also known as Google Hotel Ads). To support hotel recovery, Google updated its bidding options. Previously,...
Top 10 Digital Marketing Must-Dos for Hotels
May 26, 2020 |
Digital Marketing Ideas, Hotel
Define Your Online Marketing Strategy If you want to secure your share of the lucrative online marketplace, think about all the steps you will take to target Leisure, Corporate,...
Webinar Recap: Covid-19 Crisis-Recovery-Growth: Content and B2B...
In this webinar, leading experts from Acronym, SEMRush, Invesp, and Milestone presented the Covid-19 Crisis-Recovery-Growth framework, including key priorities and tactics for...
How Hotels Can Attract Essential Workers and First Responders...
April 14, 2020 |
Hotel
During the shelter-at-home order, regular clientele of hotels are at home and only essential workers are moving around the cities and states. However, federal, state, and local...
5 Ideas To Enhance Your Hotel’s Online Marketing Strategy...
Everyone is abuzz about Pinterest, reaching over 11.7 million unique visitors as of January 2012, surpassing the 10 million unique visitors mark more quickly than any website in...
10 Ideas to Improve Booking Performance During the Crisis
March 12, 2020 |
Digital Marketing Ideas, Hotel
Intel’s Andy Grove had a lot to say about how to react to downturns and setbacks. Here are just a few of his insights and maxims: The first rule is that economic downturns...
10 Tips for Hotel Marketing Roadmap for 2020 and 2021
January 16, 2020 |
Hotel, Web Design and Promotion
By Benu Aggarwal, Milestone Internet Marketing Effective internet marketing in the year 2020 will be a powerful promotional agent for the hotel industry – from major franchise...
Top Digital Marketing Trends for the Hospitality Industry
January 15, 2020 |
Conversion Best Practices, Digital Marketing Analytics, Digital Marketing Ideas, Digital Media Marketing, Getting Social, Hotel, Search Experience Optimization, Speaking Our Minds, Web Design and Promotion
With the vast number of search algo changes to the evolution of the customer journey, hotels and businesses need to welcome and adapt to the changes in order to continue online...
Effective Use of Email Marketing Campaigns for Hotels
November 16, 2019 |
Hotel
Hotels and other businesses can benefit immensely from the effective use of email marketing campaigns because it’s fast, direct, cost-effective, and builds one-to-one...
Online Searchable Videos – Why Hoteliers Should Care
November 12, 2019 |
Hotel
The lodging industry has seen significant adoption of online video marketing because most consumers want to see and experience as much of the hotel as possible before booking...
Top 10 Questions Hotels Should Ask Your Digital Marketing
August 6, 2019 |
Hotel
To help make sure hotels are doing everything possible to gain market share on competitors, Milestone has put together a list of the top ten questions to ask hotel internet...
From OTA Shoppers to “BOOK DIRECT” Customers – your...
July 3, 2019 |
Conversion Best Practices, Hotel
Yet another giant leap for Milestone CMS – if you are a Milestone customer, you can now benefit from our powerful integration with Synxis – a market leader in booking engines...
Google Doorway Pages vs. Independent Hotel Websites –...
There has been a lot of confusion regarding Google’s update on March 16 regarding “Doorway Pages”. We believe that the definition of “doorway pages” has been...
NFC: In the Hotel Industry, Next Comes VR, AR, and Metaverse
March 13, 2019 |
Hotel, Web Design and Promotion
With our love for innovation, Milestone seeks to bring in new and robust technologies such as near-field communication (NFC) to their customers and provide a cutting-edge service...
9 Key Elements for Benchmarking Your Hotel’s SEO Performance
March 6, 2019 |
Hotel, Search Experience Optimization
In this article we cover the importance of benchmarking so business owners can measure their website’s SEO health and use the insights to improve...
Social Media Trends Impacting Your Hotel
February 20, 2019 |
Hotel
Social media is one of the most important channels for marketing a hotel and 2019 is bound to be an exciting year for digital...
5 Reasons ADA Conformance Matters in Hotel Website Design
February 6, 2019 |
Hotel, Search Experience Optimization
Providing equal access to consumers with disabilities is no longer a “nice to have” when it comes to a user-friendly website....
Web Design Best Practices and Trends for Hotels
January 30, 2019 |
Hotel, Web Design and Promotion
Web design is not a form of art, but a solution to a business problem, albeit with a bit of creative touch and artsy flavor....
How to Use Keywords for Hotel SEO and Digital Marketing
Search engines are branching their focus out of just using keywords to provide the best search experience to their users. However, this doesn't mean that keyword strategy for SEO...
Hotel Digital Marketing Manager’s Wish List for Next Year
December 14, 2018 |
Hotel, Web Design and Promotion
What Digital Marketing Technologies are you implementing for your Hotel this year? We've created a list of the top 10 technologies that will impact how you prepare your budget for...
Top 10 Digital Marketing Strategies to Generate Hotel Bookings
November 28, 2018 |
Hotel
Whether your hotel’s needs are short term, long term or both, there are a variety of internet marketing tools available to help you achieve your goals....
Measuring The Success (ROI) of Your Hotel Search Engine
October 25, 2018 |
Hotel
One of the most successful and challenging things about marketing on the internet is that the impact of your marketing efforts is measurable. While critical to your initiative,...
9 Steps to Generate More Online Bookings and Revenue for Your...
September 22, 2018 |
Hotel
Getting your bookings through OTAs can be a costly proposition – often as much as 40% to 50% of your...
Turn Your Hotel Website Into An Online Concierge Using FAQs
September 22, 2018 |
Hotel
Take advantage of the new #1 spot with the direct answer box. Have your website digitally answer questions traditionally reserved for the concierge....
How Hotel Social Media Marketing Can Help Increase Facebook Fans...
This Facebook sweepstakes success story summarizes how Milestone helped an upscale, 4-star property in a prime market drive brand awareness and traffic to the hotel's...
Managing Your Hotel’s Online Reputation Using SEO
August 16, 2018 |
Hotel
Search engines, like Google and Bing, now place high ranking factors on social media and guest reviews channels, making online reputation management (ORM) a must-have in a...
NYLO Hotel’s New Website Design Delivers 62% Boost In...
NYLO Hotels worked closely with Milestone to develop a stunning, well-structured website to showcase the groups well-appointed boutiques. Following the latest search trends and...
Responsive Hotel Website Design and SEO Generates $300K in...
June 25, 2018 |
Digital Marketing Ideas, Hotel, Search Experience Optimization, Web Design and Promotion
Milestone's strategy includes developing technology driven, content optimized hotel websites following the latest search and social guidelines. Learn how Milestone helped Holiday...
Download: Digital Marketing Guide to Great Hotel Website Design
May 7, 2018 |
Hotel
If you’re thinking of refreshing your website or overhauling it altogether in 2018, we thought it might be helpful to have a...
Facebook Timeline for Hotels – Top 5 Things to Know
March 23, 2018 |
Getting Social, Hotel
Facebook recently made another round of significant changes to the functionality of brand pages, and it goes live for all brand pages on March 30, 2012. Here are the highlights...