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HotelSEO Lab
For independent & boutique hotels

Get Found on Google.
Get Cited by A.I.
Lose Less to OTA.

Booking.com charges you 18% to introduce you to people who already knew your name. Meanwhile ChatGPT is busy recommending the hotel down the street. We're the book-direct insurgents who fix both — with real data, not vibes.

15–25%

What the OTAs skim off every single booking — on guests who often searched your name.

27,100/mo

Monthly searches for "AEO." AI search is the new front door — and it's wide open.

1

You get the actual strategist. Not an account manager. Not a dashboard. Not a junior.

The squeeze

There are two middlemen standing between you and your guest.

One's been eating your margin for years. The other just showed up and started answering "where should I stay in town?" for everybody. You can't fire either of them — but you can claw a lot of your bookings back, if you move before your competitors do.

Middleman #1 · The OTAs

They rent you your own customers.

Expedia and Booking.com take 15–25% commission on rooms — frequently on travelers who already searched your hotel by name, then clicked the OTA because it outranked you on Google. You paid to be introduced to people who were already looking for you.

"Book direct" only works if "direct" is findable in the first place.

Middleman #2 · The AI assistants

They answer before you're in the room.

Travelers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity to plan the trip. The model names a few hotels — and if yours isn't structured, cited and quotable, it simply doesn't exist in that answer. No click. No shortlist. No booking.

ChatGPT is recommending the hotel down the street. Let's change that.

The demand has already moved to AI search. Most hotels haven't.

US searches / month
Hotel SEO 590
GEO 5,400
AI SEO 8,100
AEO 27,100

"Hotel SEO" is a tiny, pure-intent niche — but AI-search demand is 10–45× bigger and exploding. Almost nobody is doing it for hotels yet. The properties that start now bank a multi-year AI head start their competitors can't buy back.

The trap, in ten seconds

You pay to create the demand. The OTAs cash it in.

You create the demand

Ads, content, brand-building — your money makes travelers want you.

The OTAs intercept it

They bid branded-search ads on your name and sit above your own site.

We help you reclaim it

Brand-SERP defense, book-direct conversion, and AI visibility win it back.

The Lab

How we actually work. No black boxes, no AI slop.

01

We show the receipts.

Real screenshots, real keyword data, real teardowns of your site and your competitors'. You see exactly what we're doing and why it moves the needle. If we can't prove it, we don't bill for it.

02

We optimize for both engines.

Classic search and AI search at the same time: schema, entities, citations, llms.txt and quotable FAQ. Ranked on Google and cited in the answer — not one or the other.

03

Everything ladders to direct bookings.

Rankings and AI citations are nice. A booking on your own site with zero commission is the point. Every tactic we run traces back to that one number — rooms sold direct.

Pricing

Pricing's right here. No "request a quote" games.

Month-to-month after a 90-day initial term. No annual handcuffs, no lock-in, no surprise tiers. Cancel when it stops working — it won't.

Most hotels pick this Growth
$5,500 /mo

Single property ready to cut its OTA dependence.

  • Technical SEO upkeep & GBP management
  • Full AEO/GEO AI-visibility program
  • 4 content pieces / month + monthly report
  • Citation & link building — 5+ links/mo + cleanup
  • Fractional PR support
Get the wedge
Authority
$7,500 /mo

Multi-property or just plain ambitious.

  • Everything in Growth
  • 6–8 content pieces / month
  • Digital PR & citations (done-for-you)
  • Quarterly strategy with the strategist
Go own the category
Authority+
By strategy session

Full-scale, done-with-you PR & SEO link building at scale.

  • Everything in Authority
  • Full-scale PR / SEO link building
  • Fractional PR on all outside PR
  • Custom volume & cadence
Book a strategy session

Every retainer is month-to-month after a 90-day initial term. Want the full breakdown, audits and one-time sprints? See all pricing →

Last thing

Let's go find out why the OTAs are outranking you for your own name.

20 free minutes. We'll look at your hotel live, show you where you're invisible — on Google and in the AI answers — and tell you straight whether we can help.

No lock-in · No 12-month handcuffs · You talk to the strategist