Partners can add an additional hotel level ID in their list of properties for use when Google generates dynamic landing pages. This is particularly relevant for partners that have different domains per property or different IDs for their properties and their landing pages.
Instructions
Step 1: Update your property list
Hotel list upload
CSV
- Add a new column in your hotel list: alternate_hotel_id
XML
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Update your file as follows:
<listings ... ><listing><content><attributes><client_attr name="alternate_hotel_id">123456</client_attr> - Populate it for the hotels that need it
Hotel list fetch
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Update your XML file as follows:
<listings ... ><listing><content><attributes><client_attr name="alternate_hotel_id">123456</client_attr> - Populate for the hotels that need it
Step 2: Update your landing page
- If you require different domains for each hotel, use this formatting:
- https://www.(ALTERNATE-HOTEL-ID).com/…
- If you require different hotel IDs to resolve your booking engine, use this formatting:
- https://www.domain.com/(ALTERNATE-HOTEL_ID)/…
Note: Testing your landing page may fail if we have not received prices for your hotels. In that case, go ahead and save it with errors.
Step 3: Preview and verify a hotel
- Pick a hotel that has an alternate hotel ID in Hotel Center, and click Preview.
- Verify that the URL works for a given date/occupancy combination.
- Try a few more hotels.