Hotel News Now Talks with Tim Peter on Google’s Mobile First Indexing: “Start With Fast”

Digital marketing consultant Tim Peter’s expertise in search engine optimization, marketing and hospitality was recently tapped by Hotel News Now as they explored the rise of mobile search and its importance to hotel marekters.

As Google moves toward mobile-first indexing, experts say that hoteliers need to be prepared so they won’t be knocked out of the search rankings, especially in light of recent analysis by Google that showed 53% of users will leave a site if the response time in greater than 3 seconds.

“I can’t emphasize this enough: Start with fast,” Tim said.

He also advises hotels to make their mobile websites more user-friendly.

To help reduce bounce rate, Peter said mobile websites need to be “finger-friendly” so people can operate them while using one hand via their mobile device. Buttons should be bigger to allow for easy access to call to actions, and text needs to be bigger for ease of reading on a smaller screen.

To read the rest of Tim’s comments and the full article, click here.

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