Aligning destination intent, mobile campaigns, and international SEO for Southeast Asia travel demand.
Taskcover Agency supported Agoda's travel search growth through destination intent, international keyword strategy, EEAT content, mobile campaigns, and organic/paid coordination.
Client
Agoda
Focus
Travel
Period
2021 travel search growth engagement
Overview
Agoda needed to compete across Southeast Asia travel search while demand, OTA competition, and post-pandemic travel behavior shifted quickly.
Client Background
Agoda is a Booking Holdings online travel platform focused strongly on Asia, with offices including Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, and Beijing.
Starting point
From late 2020 to early Q1 2021, organic traffic declined by up to 50% while competition from OTAs including Traveloka, Kayak, Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia intensified.
Challenge
Agoda had to protect search visibility in a volatile travel market while competing for hotel, flight, destination, mobile, and deal-driven intent.
Grow Agoda awareness in Southeast Asia.
Reach 80% top 10 and 75% top 5 coverage for priority travel keywords.
Increase organic traffic by 40% as an objective.
Use travel influencers and campaign hashtags to extend awareness.
Reach high-intent booking and travel-search users.
Strategy
Build comprehensive keyword research across hotels, travel booking, nearby hotels, flights, and destination intent.
Use informational keywords first to build traffic and trust, then advance more competitive booking terms.
Create SEO blog content to EEAT standards.
Coordinate mobile-app promotions, Eco Deal, Gold Circle, local traveler targeting, and Day Use messaging with search demand.
Execution
Workstream 1
International SEO
Mapped Southeast Asia travel and destination demand.
Workstream 2
Content system
Built SEO blog and destination content around travel intent.
Workstream 3
Mobile campaign support
Aligned app, mobile deal, and local traveler demand.
Workstream 4
Reputation response
Used search to control negative visibility and reinforce positive brand context.
Services Delivered
- International SEO
- Regional travel demand and language-aware keyword strategy.
- Technical SEO
- On-page and off-page optimization support.
- Content Marketing
- Travel blog and destination content.
- PPC Management
- Paid and campaign support for mobile and promotion demand.
Results
- 80% of important keywords reached Top 5.
- 100% of brand keywords matched the intended landing pages.
- Organic traffic increased 13% in September 2021 versus the previous month after five months of SEO and blog work.
- Website traffic rate increased 0.4%.
- Bounce rate decreased 0.6%.
- Agoda's 2023 search data reported Vietnam travel searches up 298% year over year.
- App Store rating was 4.8 across 231.2K reviews, and Google Play rating was 4.7 across 2.71M reviews with 50M downloads.
Key Metrics
Important keywords in Top 5
80%
Published source result for priority keyword visibility.
Brand keywords to intended landing page
100%
Published source result for brand keyword page matching.
Organic traffic
+13%
Published source result after five months of SEO and blog work.
Vietnam travel searches
+298%
Published source reference from Agoda search data.
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Key Learning
Travel SEO has to flex with destination demand, mobile behavior, deals, and market-level competition; static landing pages are not enough.
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