Travel SEO Is Too Dependent on Yesterday's Demand
Search volume describes demand that already exists. Why travel SEO needs leading indicators from TikTok, Reddit, YouTube and AI search to spot destinations earlier.
For people who voluntarily work in an industry where the rules change without warning, the documentation is vague on purpose, and 'it depends' is a valid answer. Welcome.
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Tests, edge cases, implementation notes, and things I thought were worth writing down.
Search volume describes demand that already exists. Why travel SEO needs leading indicators from TikTok, Reddit, YouTube and AI search to spot destinations earlier.
Google now wraps results in google.com/goto redirects, hiding the real URL from the status bar and Copy link address. What changed, and how to get it back.
Preferred Sources, Search Profiles, Subscription Linking and Favourite Brands are one loyalty layer sitting on top of ranking. What it means for ecommerce brands, and what to deploy now.
Google reads shipping and returns from five sources: product feed, API, Merchant Center or Search Console settings, product markup, and Organisation schema. The precedence order, and a decision tree for which to use.
18+ years leading search programmes for enterprise and global businesses. I specialise in the parts of SEO that are hard to fake and harder to fix: technical architecture, structured data, and international implementations. Currently leading enterprise engagements at Intrepid Digital.