Archive for: October 2011

What is Spam? – Visualized

date 31 Oct 2011 | category SEO Optimized

A few weeks ago we’ve published a fun post on How Social Media Sites Are Fighting Spam. One of our guest bloggers decided to visualize it. The author extends the topic far  beyond social media and looks at the subject …

Amazon’s Android App Store Launches Head-On Against Google

date 31 Oct 2011 | category SEO Optimized

Android is open, and that’s been used as an excuse for a diverse number of claims and actions. The FCC cited it as a reason not to having net neutrality laws apply to the mobile web; analysts are pointing to …

Choice Hotels Plans $250-Million Note Sale

date 30 Oct 2011 | category Landmark Hotels

Aug 19, 2010 7:55 AM From Bloomberg Business Week: Proceeds Will Pay Off Revolving Credit Debt Choice Hotels International Inc. said Wednesday it priced an underwritten public offering of $250 million in 5.7 percent senior notes due August 2020.

Title: Back in the Olden Days of PPC

date 30 Oct 2011 | category SEO Optimized

When I was a youngin’ we didn’t have them new fangled thangs like Remarketing or Auto-bidding. No, if we wanted something, we had to work for it! There was no such thing as day parting to change bidding

The 3 Major Causes of Duplicate Listings in Local Search

date 29 Oct 2011 | category SEO Optimized

Over the past 2 months I would say somewhere in the neighborhood of 99.3% of the phone calls I have received involve companies who are seeing double-vision when it comes to their Google Places listings. Not to shut my phone …

Don’t Let Your Hotel Be Undermanaged

date 29 Oct 2011 | category Landmark Hotels

One of the speakers at last months Lodging Conference threw out this statistic: 70 percent of hotels in the U.S. are undermanaged. He didnt cite the source for such a difficult-to-prove concept, but the factoid soon went viral.

What is Quora and Why Should You Care?

date 28 Oct 2011 | category SEO Optimized

Quora. You might have seen the name being bantered about lately, especially if you have been anywhere near the Internet

Brand Intros Mark The Lodging Conference

date 28 Oct 2011 | category Landmark Hotels

The big news at The Lodging Conference, which concludes today in Phoenix, was branding. Two new potential chains, Virgin Hotels and B Hotels & Resorts, were unveiled at the event at the Arizona Biltmore

Microsoft Tablets Pushed to 2012

date 27 Oct 2011 | category SEO Optimized

Microsoft’s keynote address at this year’s CES got massive amounts of applause as their tablet lineup was introduced. It was fully anticipated that as we entered what analysts dubbed “the year of the tablet,” Microsoft would be a part of the race. However, company …

Kayak to Compete with Expedia for Direct Hotel Reservations

date 27 Oct 2011 | category Landmark Hotels

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