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Claimed your Google Place Page Yet? If not, someone else will!


As if you needed another reason to claim your Google Place page, the most compelling reason yet has now appeared. It is ridiculously easy (unless or until Google has fixed it) for a scammer to claim someone else’s Place Page if they have a mailing address in the same town as the business. Don’t believe [...]

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Where do bookings come from?


Instead of re-writing the article, we will simply mention and link to the great information provided by our friends at Acorn Internet Services showing a comparison of statistics on bookings from before there were Google Place Pages and currently, and also noting which directories produce bookings. This is obtained from Acorn’s customers who use Acorn’s [...]

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How will you rank in local social results?


Build credibility on Twitter to take advantage of Twitter place pages.

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Need A Google Link to Your Reservations Page?


We’re used to seeing Google link (in the so-called organic search engine results pages – SERPs) to our home page, and sometimes to other popular pages on our lodging web site. But wouldn’t it be great if they linked directly to your availability or booking page? Well, now you can have them do just that [...]

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Google Adds Mobile Place Pages: Why you should care


Google’s announcement of mobile Place Pages should tell innkeepers they need to claim their listing and monitor their names

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