Matt Cutts, Google’s unofficial SEO spokesperson, recently has said that the time that it takes a website page to load in a browser is now an important factor in your Google ranking. So if your website has inline styling, is table-based, built around Flash or image-heavy, chances are that your page download times will [...]

Google is always updating the features they provide to their users. The newest feature we are seeing now under the Google Local Business Center is called “What people are saying about”. It seem that Google is reading reviews left about your property and parsing them into segments that a user can read.
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Google Maps is a major component with every Google Search.  If you do a search for a business type along with a city, Google is most likely going to provide to you a list of results and their location on a map.  See the example below when a search is done for Eureka Springs Bed [...]

Something easy you can do to increase your market share is explore other top sites on Google for your search terms.
For example, say you own a bed and breakfast in Tennessee. The first thing that you want to do is explore what kind of sites are showing up in the top 10 on Google for [...]

Katie and I just got back from the Illinois B&B Conference held in Springfield, Illinois. We met many great innkeepers and made many new friends. We got to tour the Flagg Farmstead B&B, see the Illinois capital building and enjoy the freezing midwest temperatures (it never got above 25°). Our good friends [...]

Are you concerned about the future of your business in a slow economy? Wondering what exactly you can do to keep your inn full, even when your clientele are cutting corners? This convention is going to have the most bang for your buck as far as information, speakers, vendors and great inn keeping insight.
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We were on the road again with Jeff and Pat from the northernmost to the southernmost continental state.
Good-bye gray skies and evergreens, hello palm trees and sandy beaches-at least for a couple of days. We were lucky enough to have Pat McCauley and Jeff Logan representing us in Florida at the end of last month [...]