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Where Did All the Cookies Go?
Vizergy | September 19, 2022
By Daisy Tackett Google has been teasing the end of third-party cookies since 2020, but it seems as if they’ve finally decided on a concrete plan. In 2020, Google promised to remove cookies from Chrome by 2022, but was met with complaints and concerns across the board. Now, it seems as if third-party cookies will be absolutely gone from Google Chrome by the second half of 2024. Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers in the world, capturing more than 60% of the total market with over 2.5 billion users. Over half of all desktops run on Chrome, so this shift means big changes for you. Here’s how this is going to impact the hosp...
Back to Basics: Metasearch
NextGuest Digital | October 31, 2019
Metasearch platforms can seamlessly provide online travel shoppers with real-time pricing and availability throughout key touchpoints in the travel planning journey. Metasearch is becoming more sophisticated and so should your hotel’s strategy around it. With recent updates such as the joining of Google Hotel Ads with Google Ads and the rollout of Bing Hotel Ads, hoteliers can now stack up against the OTAs by displaying their hotel logo and price among highly trafficked results. What is it? When a user performs a search query for a hotel, whether on a search engine such as Google or Bing or a platform like TripAdvisor, the results that ap...
5 Tips to Maximize Your Hotel Metasearch Advertising Revenue
Patrick Landman | September 9, 2019
By Patrick Landman Amsterdam has a problem with over-tourism: we all know that. With 3 Billion € revenue per year generated by travelers, you'd expect search volume for queries such as "Hotels in Amsterdam" to have skyrocketed over the years, wouldn't you? Well, get ready to be disappointed. What if I told you that traffic for such query has, instead, been plummeting, and its volume is now half of what it used to be back in 2014? So how do you adjust you hotel marketing strategy? You can see by yourself, by looking at the GoogleTrends graph below. This (seeming) paradox can be explained by a quite recent shift in travelers'...
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