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Our hotel SEO services help you capture guests searching for hotels like yours and turn them into direct bookings. Stop giving 15-25% of every booking to OTAs. We get your hotel ranked on Google, recommended by AI, and convert that visibility into direct bookings.

Avg. organic lift+675%
Direct booking shift+38%
Time to first wins30d
ContractM-T-M
Commission you’re paying right now Live
$0

Estimated OTA commission a 60-room hotel at 70% occupancy and a $220 ADR pays this year. Every dollar of it could be a direct booking instead.

OTA cut
15–25%
Direct booking margin
~92%
Guests who check Google first
81%
Guests using AI to plan trips
46%
Source: STR / Skift / Phocuswright The 66th
Trusted by hospitality and consumer brands
Google ★★★★★5.0
Clutch ★★★★★4.9
Avg. lift+675%
Years combined15+
The real cost

Every OTA booking is a guest you already had.

When a guest searches your hotel by name and lands on Booking.com, you just paid 15-25% commission on a booking that was already yours.

  • You rank below OTAs for your own hotel name.
  • AI tools recommend competitors when guests ask where to stay.
  • Your Google Business Profile is missing what drives the map pack.
  • You can’t see which channels actually drive direct revenue.
A typical 60-room property

Where the revenue actually goes.

Booking.com share
42%
of bookings, average
Avg. OTA commission
22%
paid per booking
Direct margin
92%
if guests book on your site
Annual revenue lost
$680k
to OTAs you can claw back

“The OTAs aren’t bringing you guests. They’re intercepting the guests Google would have sent you anyway.”

AI search visibility

Be the answer when guests ask AI.

A growing share of high-intent guests starts the trip-planning conversation in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews. Our work makes sure your property is the property they recommend.

  • Cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
  • Reviews, listicles, and editorial that the engines actually pull from.
  • Schema and citation patterns the AI models reward.
CHATGPT · GPT-5 Live
You
ChatGPT
Sources tripadvisor.com booking.com your-site.com
What you get

Everything wired to turn search into bookings.

Six interlocking workstreams, all in-house. Senior team, one point of contact.
01 / Foundation

Technical hotel SEO

The plumbing Google needs to rank you above OTAs. Speed, crawlability, hotel + room + FAQ schema.

StackHTML / Schema / CWV
02 / Visibility

AI search (GEO)

Get cited in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and AI Overviews when guests ask where to stay.

StackGEO / Citations / Schema
03 / Local

Google Business Profile

Category, photo, post, review and Q&A work that locks the map pack.

StackGBP / Maps / Reviews
04 / Content

Pages that convert guests

Long-tail pages built for AI to quote and humans to book.

StackLong-tail / Intent / GEO
05 / Authority

Backlinks & citations

Editorial mentions and directory citations the AI models actually pull from.

StackPR / Outreach / Press
06 / Reporting

Live dashboard

Rankings, AI citations, and direct bookings in one view. Weekly written update from a human.

StackGA4 / GSC / Custom
Live reporting

Every direct booking, tracked.

The dashboard your team gets the day we start. Live rankings, AI citations, and direct booking impact in one view. No screenshots in a slide deck once a quarter.

The 66th · Hotel performance
Overview Rankings AI citations Bookings Live
Keywords top 3
0
on Google
+12 this month
Organic traffic
0%
vs last quarter
trending up
AI citations
0
across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overviews
+9 this month
Direct bookings
0%
share lifted off OTAs
+4.2pts
Organic traffic to direct booking pages
Last 90 days · daily
+212%
90 days ago 60 30 Today
Top ranking keywords Live
#1best boutique hotel downtown+13 in 60d
#2pet friendly hotel near YVR+22 in 90d
#1hotel with rooftop pool+9 in 45d
#3weekend getaway downtown+18 in 60d
AI citations this month 38 total
GPTChatGPT14 citations
PPXPerplexity11 citations
CLDClaude8 citations
AIOGoogle AI Overviews5 citations
How it works

Four steps from audit to direct bookings.

Senior strategists, same team for the life of the engagement.

Step 01 / Week 1

Find where you’re losing bookings.

Full audit of your site, GBP, AI visibility, and SERP. We map exactly where OTAs are intercepting your guests.

Site auditSERPAI scanCompetitor map
Step 02 / Weeks 2-4

Fix the technical foundation.

Schema, page speed, indexation, and GBP rebuild. The plumbing most agencies skip.

Technical SEOSchemaPage speedGBP
Step 03 / Months 1-3

Ship pages and citations.

Long-tail landing pages and editorial citations that rank on Google and feed the AI models.

Long-tailEditorialReviewsBacklinks
Step 04 / Compounding

Compound the direct booking line.

Every month layers more pages and authority. OTA share shrinks, direct revenue takes its place.

Monthly contentCROReportingIteration
Hotel SEO mistakes

Why most hotels never break their OTA dependency.

If hotel SEO didn’t move the needle for you before, one of these is almost always why.

Treating the hotel website like a brochure

Beautiful sites that rank for nothing. Room pages with 60 words of copy. Booking.com fills the gap.

Optimizing for the hotel name, not guest intent

The bookings come from “boutique hotel with rooftop pool” and “pet-friendly near YVR”. Almost no hotels write for that.

Ignoring AI search until it’s too late

Half of travellers plan trips with AI. If you aren’t cited there, you’re invisible to that demand.

Letting OTAs win your own branded search

If Booking.com outranks you for your own hotel name, you’re paying commission on bookings you already had.

Treating GBP as a one-time setup

Hotels that post, refresh, respond, and seed Q&A every week dominate the map pack. The rest don’t.

No conversion tracking on the booking flow

If you can’t see which keyword drove a booking, you can’t double down on what works.

The 66th vs the rest

Built for hospitality, not templated for everyone.

Hotel SEO and GEO are their own discipline. Here’s how that shows up.

Capability
The 66th
Most agencies
In-house team, no outsourcing
Senior strategists from day one
Often outsourced overseas
AI search (GEO) optimization
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, AI Overviews
Google rankings only
Hospitality-specific schema
Hotel, room, amenity, FAQ, breadcrumb
Generic Organization schema
Direct booking conversion tracking
Query → reservation, server-side
GA pageviews, no booking attribution
Contract length
Month-to-month, cancel anytime
12-month minimum standard
Performance guarantee
10-20% traffic lift or we keep working
No guarantee
Results

Numbers from real hotel work.

A sample. Full case studies and screenshots on the call.
+1500%
6 months

Maple Terroir

Organic traffic and revenue growth. Consumer brand category, comparable structure to boutique hospitality.

+686%
3 months

Aetherhaus

Wellness and hospitality-adjacent brand. Page 6 to position 1 on primary keywords in 90 days.

2wks
First AI sale

Butcher’s Hook

112 keywords ranking and ChatGPT-attributed sales within two weeks of GEO launch.

+500%
5 months

WashTech

Local search-led revenue growth. Same playbook used for hospitality-aware local domination.

In their words

Trusted by hotel founders and operators.

A small slice of what people say about working with us. Full reference calls available on request.
Liam helped grow our online presence tenfold and increased our sales by over 140% in less than 6 months. I strongly recommend The 66th.
Shawn Lytton
President · Maple Terroir
Working with The 66th has been a game-changer. They executed as planned and increased our revenue by 25% in 3 months.
Andrew Crookshank
Co-founder · Bilo Media
Liam and his team did our SEO and generative engine optimization. They were incredible. You will not be disappointed.
Clare Howard
Founder · Maison Rouge
FAQ

Hotel SEO, straight answers.

The questions hospitality operators ask us most often. If yours isn’t here, the booking link below goes straight to my calendar.

Ask a question →
Most hotels see meaningful traffic increases within 1 to 3 months. Branded query fixes and Google Business Profile work usually move first. Long-tail page rankings and AI citations build through months 3 to 6. We guarantee a minimum 10-20% traffic increase or we keep working until we deliver it.
Yes. We target high-intent keywords where guests are searching for hotels like yours, and we engineer pages, schema, and citations so your property ranks above OTAs for the searches that matter most, including your own brand name.
SEO ranks you on Google. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) gets you cited inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews where guests increasingly ask “where should I stay in [city]”. Strong GEO is built on top of strong SEO. We do both as one stack. Our hotel SEO guide breaks down the full approach.
No. Every plan is month-to-month. You can cancel anytime, no penalty. Most clients stay because the work compounds, not because they’re locked in.
Yes. Profile audit and rebuild, category and amenity optimization, photo strategy, weekly posts, review prompts and response templates, Q&A seeding, and map-pack tuning are part of every plan from Foundation up.
Both. We write pages targeting high-intent guest queries (boutique hotel, pet-friendly hotel near airport, weekend getaway, etc.), optimize them for AI citation, and ship them on your existing CMS. Volume scales with the plan you’re on.
Independent hotels and boutiques (10-150 rooms), hotel groups, and resorts. We are not a fit for OTAs themselves or pure marketplace plays. If you’re a single-property operator, the Foundation or Growth plan is usually the right entry point.
You get a live reporting dashboard tracking rankings, organic traffic, AI citations, direct bookings, and revenue impact. Plus a weekly written update from a real human, not a templated PDF, and a strategy call cadence based on your plan.
Ready to claw back direct bookings?

Let’s build the hotel they search for.

30-minute call. Live audit of your visibility and OTA exposure.