The strategy we implemented focused on branding, location, and services in the ad copy (rather than on price and room rate on brand searches). Additionally, we increased our overall budget from the previous year to also focus on Remarketing. In this way, we captured users who had visited the site previously but did not book. On customers’ second or third time searching, we presented a special offer and redirected them to a specified offer landing page to incentivize booking.
From an organic search perspective, there were many opportunities to implement SEO best practices. Meta content strategy and site speed were the two biggest opportunities for the team to action on. The meta content strategy consisted of rewriting and remapping the keyword map to prioritize property pages over the brand’s home page (all property terms were in the title for the homepage).