Win direct bookings from Google, before guests reach an OTA.I set up your Google Business Profile, free booking links and Hotel Ads, and make sure your direct booking path is competitive. I work with hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Montréal, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and I have optimized 100+ properties in and around the market.
Alaa Elhadi, an independent revenue management consultant, provides Google Hotel Ads optimization for hotels, resorts and serviced apartments in Montréal, Canada, one to one, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Montréal, I price June as the peak and January to March as the quiet time, and I build the work around that calendar. Google Hotel Ads optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types.
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100+
Properties optimized in and around Montréal
1-on-1
Directly with Alaa, no account-manager layer
Eastern Time
Sessions scheduled in your local time
Google Hotel Ads optimization is the work I do to make a property rank, convert and price correctly on Google. I set up your Google Business Profile, free booking links and Hotel Ads, and make sure your direct booking path is competitive.
What I plan around in Montréal: Canadian Grand Prix; Montréal Jazz Festival and Just for Laughs; Osheaga; Conference and university travel. Guests I price for: US and European visitors on 3 to 4 night stays in the Plateau, Old Montréal and Mile End. Where I start: Grand Prix and festival premiums, CITQ-compliant positioning, and winter floors.
Montréal sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. My five-star background helps Montréal boutique hotels split leisure, conference and film-crew demand, fence the Grand Prix and festival weeks with proper stay controls, and choose a comp set by neighbourhood, since an Old Montréal hotel and a Plateau one serve different guests.
The service in general is described on my google hotel ads optimization page; this page covers how I apply it in Montréal.
Your profile is often the first thing a traveler sees. I complete it, correct the details and keep rates and availability accurate.
Free booking links cost nothing to appear in. I set them up, then judge whether paid Hotel Ads are worth it for your hotel.
A click only helps if the booking path converts. I review your site and engine against the OTAs and fix what loses the guest.
Reviews on these sites travel with the property. I set up a routine to collect and answer them consistently.
“Montréal is a festival city with strict rules. Short-term rentals need a CITQ registration, and the city has limited rentals of non-principal residences to a summer window in most boroughs. The Grand Prix, Jazz Festival and Osheaga are the peaks. I check the property's status first, then price the festival calendar.”
Alaa Elhadi, revenue management consultant. Cornell certified, 18 years in hotel and short-term rental revenue.
Igloofest and Montréal en Lumière give a few weekends some life, so I price those and otherwise rely on conferences, students and longer stays to keep winter occupied.
As the terraces open, weekend demand returns first; I lift Friday and Saturday rates while leaving midweek near winter levels until June.
Grand Prix weekend gets a three-night minimum and its own rate, and the Francofolies and early Jazz Festival dates follow straight after, so I do not let the month average out.
Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs and Osheaga each get named premiums, with ordinary summer nights held firm because American visitors keep arriving by car.
Conferences and the start of the academic year carry weekdays, so I keep business-friendly midweek rates and soften weekends only after Thanksgiving.
Christmas markets and New Year in Old Montréal lift the final weeks, so I price the holiday period as a separate short season with a minimum stay.
Google shows your hotel, your rates and your OTAs side by side, and the direct link only wins if it is accurate and competitive. A modest amount of careful setup here is the cheapest way I know to move bookings off commission-heavy channels.
Confirm CITQ registration and whether the unit is a principal residence.
Price the Grand Prix and summer festivals as top bands.
Plan non-principal units around the summer rental window.
Offer mid-term stays for students and professionals.
Lower January to March floors.
A new Google listing
You have just connected Google and want it to rank and convert from the first weeks, not after months of guessing.
Views but few bookings
Visibility looks fine and conversion does not, which usually means content, photos or rate plans on Google.
Commission without much return
You pay Google commission and its share of bookings is small next to your other channels.
A portfolio with uneven quality
Some listings are polished on Google and others were never finished, and nobody owns the standard.
Send me the Google listing or property links and your channel manager. I check how the property ranks and reads today before we speak.
A scorecard for Google: content, photos, rates and promotions, policies and reviews, with every fix ranked by impact.
I make the changes live on Zoom in your Google account or through your channel manager, and explain each one so you can maintain it.
Step 4
About 30 days later I look at impressions, conversion and booking share on Google and adjust what the numbers say to adjust.
I quote Google Hotel Ads optimization per property after a short chat. You get a fixed scope and price before any work starts.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Single property | Google Hotel Ads optimization for one property | Quoted |
| Several properties | One scope and one price for a group on Google Hotel Ads | Quoted |
Real feedback from PriceLabs pricing strategy sessions with Alaa.
Alaa is a consummate professional! Patient, thorough, efficient and effective in communicating. He not only made savvy adjustments to my dynamic pricing strategy, but also helped me to understand the reasoning behind his methods, granting me a better understanding of the PriceLabs platform. Strong work!
Airbnb host
Alaa was fantastic, going through each of the properties I had and gave great advice and actioned a great game plan. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to enhance their pricing strategy on PriceLabs. Alaa's experience goes beyond this which makes it very beneficial to have this holistic approach.
Property manager
Alaa helped me optimize my PriceLabs settings for my Airbnb listing and was very helpful and patient with answering any questions I had. He was also able to clearly explain why he made the changes he made, and it was obvious that he had a lot of experience in this field. I will definitely be back!
Airbnb host
Montréal sells mostly through Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. April to May: As the terraces open, weekend demand returns first; I lift Friday and Saturday rates while leaving midweek near winter levels until June. For Google Hotel Ads optimization in Montréal, i optimize Google alongside your other channels and check parity, so added reach never creates a conflict.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization, on Google, I line up promotions, rate plans and content with these windows so visibility peaks when demand does. Busiest in Montréal: June to September, with the Grand Prix in June, Jazz Festival and Osheaga, plus the Christmas season. July to August: Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs and Osheaga each get named premiums, with ordinary summer nights held firm because American visitors keep arriving by car. December: Christmas markets and New Year in Old Montréal lift the final weeks, so I price the holiday period as a separate short season with a minimum stay.
US and European visitors on 3 to 4 night stays in the Plateau, Old Montréal and Mile End. Demand is driven by Canadian Grand Prix and Montréal Jazz Festival and Just for Laughs. For Google Hotel Ads optimization, i write content and photo order on Google for the guests who actually search for Montréal.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization, i write location content, photos and amenity highlights on Google around the specific part of Montréal the property is in. Plateau Mont-Royal: The classic walk-up neighbourhood that guests picture; I price it for couples and festival-goers and reward longer summer stays rather than chasing one-night bookings. Old Montréal and Quartier des Spectacles and downtown get their own treatment.
Confirm CITQ registration and whether the unit is a principal residence. Next: plan non-principal units around the summer rental window. For Google Hotel Ads optimization, the first changes on Google are content completeness and the cover photo, because those decide whether a Montréal traveler clicks.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization, i check this on Google first, because it decides whether the listing is allowed to rank at all. Whether the French and English descriptions say the same thing, because many guests search in either language and inconsistent house rules lead to disputes.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization in Montréal, this is how I would approach it. My five-star background helps Montréal boutique hotels split leisure, conference and film-crew demand, fence the Grand Prix and festival weeks with proper stay controls, and choose a comp set by neighbourhood, since an Old Montréal hotel and a Plateau one serve different guests. We start in the chat, and I confirm the scope and the price before any work begins.
For Google Hotel Ads optimization, i price properties for a living, so content, rates and promotions are tuned together and not in isolation. I have optimized 100+ properties in and around Montréal and work remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that shows up in decisions like this: price the Grand Prix and summer festivals as top bands.
Google Hotel Ads optimization is quoted per property after a short chat, because the scope depends on the number of properties and room types. The scope of Google Hotel Ads optimization is the same in every market, but the plan is not: in Montréal I would start from June: Grand Prix weekend gets a three-night minimum and its own rate, and the Francofolies and early Jazz Festival dates follow straight after, so I do not let the month average out. To start, open the chat or email me with your property type and size in Montréal.
Yes. Google Hotel Ads Expert in Montréal is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Montréal have been optimized, including in areas such as Plateau Mont-Royal. I implement it live on Zoom in your Google extranet or through your channel manager, in your time zone. Start in the chat or by email and tell me what you run in Montréal.
Results depend on the property, the starting point and the season, so I do not promise a number. In Montréal the first gains from Google Hotel Ads optimization usually come from the change with the clearest local signal: plan non-principal units around the summer rental window. I review progress against your own occupancy, ADR and RevPAR, not a market average.
The other services I offer in Montréal, for hotels and for Airbnb and short-term rentals. Each has its own page for this market.
Back to the revenue management consultant page for Montréal, or read the general page for google hotel ads optimization.
If you also run properties outside Montréal, I work in these markets too, and each page is written for that market's own seasons, areas and rules.
Tell me what you run in Montréal and what you need. I reply in Eastern Time, confirm the scope and the price, and start only when you say so.
