Fascinating post on the excellent Blog on Travel about Spanish hotel brand AC Hotels, which has apparently been de-listed by Google.
The post explains at length perhaps why the chain has fallen foul of the search engine giant.
But in a nutshell:
Poor SEO
Mis-use of Flash
Bad meta-tagging
Tom’s post is well worth a read. [Check the comments at the end - especially the one about the MD of AC Hotels and his supposed opinions of the internet]
Kevin may, editor, Travolution
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