Sonesta Essential Hotels Ames

• “Where should I stay in Ames? Name the best hotels.”

  You're not named
  1. 1. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University
  2. 2. Hilton Garden Inn Ames
  3. 3. Staybridge Suites Ames
  4. 4. TownePlace Suites by Marriott Ames
  5. 5. Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Ames
  6. 6. Comfort Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
• “What are the best luxury hotels in Ames?”

  You're not named
  1. 1. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University
  2. 2. Hilton Garden Inn Ames
  3. 3. GrandStay Hotel and Suites Ames
  4. 4. Staybridge Suites Ames
• “What are the best hotels in Ames for a family holiday?”

  You're not named
  1. 1. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University
  2. 2. Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Ames
  3. 3. TownePlace Suites by Marriott Ames
  4. 4. Staybridge Suites Ames
  5. 5. Hilton Garden Inn Ames
  6. 6. Sleep Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
  7. 7. Comfort Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
• “What are the best hotels in Ames for couples?”

  You're not named
  1. 1. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University
  2. 2. Hilton Garden Inn Ames
  3. 3. Staybridge Suites Ames
  4. 4. GrandStay Hotel and Suites Ames
• “What are good value hotels in Ames?”

  You're 4th of 5

  “simple rooms with free breakfast at a budget price.”

  1. 1. Comfort Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
  2. 2. Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Ames
  3. 3. Sleep Inn & Suites Ames near ISU Campus
  4. 4. Sonesta Essential Ames
  5. 5. Gateway Hotel and Conference Center

1. 1
   Google and AI assistants can't tell your website is a hotel's

   Without your hotel's details in Google's own format, they can't show your rating, price and address beside your name.

   What to do: Ask your brand's web team to add them. It takes about an hour.

2. 2
   Some links on your website lead nowhere

   A guest who clicks one gets an error page instead of your rooms.

   What to do: Ask your brand's web team to fix or remove them.

• No button to book on your home page, so a guest who wants to book direct has to hunt for one
• No WhatsApp link, where most guests in India ask first
• A phone number a guest can tap to call
• AI assistants can read your website

1. 1
   Show your own price on Google

   Google lists the booking sites' prices for your room but not your website's, so a guest who finds you there can only book through them.

   How: Ask your booking engine to connect you to Google's free booking links. Most do it at no cost, and your price then shows beside theirs.

2. 2
   Give AI assistants a reason to recommend you

   Asked about where to stay, family holidays and couples' stays in Ames, AI recommended Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at Iowa State University and Hilton Garden Inn Ames and others, not you.

   How: Add a page to your website for each kind of guest, with your rooms, prices and what's nearby. AI assistants recommend the hotels whose pages answer the guest's question.

3. 3
   Google and AI assistants can't tell your website is a hotel's

   Without your hotel's details in Google's own format, they can't show your rating, price and address beside your name.

   How: Ask your brand's web team to add them. It takes about an hour.

With OneHorizyn you see every week whether each one worked, in guests and in rupees.

• Weddings and events

  The planners and families booking weddings in Ames, who fill your rooms for three nights at a time and never touch a booking site.

• Conferences and company travel

  The companies running meetings and incentive trips near you, and the firms whose staff already stay in Ames every week.

• Travel agents and tour operators

  The agents and operators selling Ames to guests abroad, who send the same rooms again and again once you're on their list.

• Events that publish a list of hotels

  Festivals, matches and conferences in and around Ames that name hotels to stay at. Being on that list costs nothing, and most hotels never ask.

• The nights your town fills up

  Which dates Ames runs out of rooms months ahead, so you price them before your competitors do, rather than after.

• What your competitors charge, nightly

  Their price for every night ahead, not the one night on this page, so you know which nights you are leaving money on.