Tweets to Appear on Search Engine Results
November 12, 2009 at 3:22 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 CommentsTags: hotel blog, hotel industry, hotel revenue management, hotel sales
Am I the only one that thinks this could be game changer?
While the dust up between Choice and Expedia was being heralded as ‘the story of the year’, a giddy Steve Ballmer anounced an agreement with Twitter to show Tweets in its search results on Bing. Google quickly and more quietly followed suit announcing it’s agreement with Twitter.
Think about this for minute. Given how much money and time is devoted to SEO, what will it mean for hotel and destination marketng on the web? Tweets are not controllable whether they come from satisfied or dissatisfied customers.
Will those hotels that push out promotions on Twitter move up the page rank more than those hotels that don’t engage Twitter?
While Google has not announced exactly how Tweets will appear or influence page ranking, you can bet that they will figure it out in time for spring and summer leisure travel. Are hotels going to wait and see or develop a proactive Twitter presence?
I wouldl love to hear your comments.
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I do agree , specially after Sheraton by Starwood hotels launch the facility of Facebook on there website , and for sure this will be one step ahead for others to follow and launch some other social media , so Tweeting is coming soon, thus will increase the page ranking , might take a while but it is one of the future tasks of SEO
Comment by Revenue Your Hotel — November 13, 2009 #
twitter won’t let you get a lot of traffic seeing that if you want to link in your post you must use a tinyurl since the twits (ha) are limited to 160 characters
Comment by san diego boutique hotels — November 18, 2009 #