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Understand your customers
The travel desk’s audiences, voice and hard editorial limits became one governed Brand Kit, from what every claim has to be sourced against down to which words may not describe a hotel.
Define your OfferingCase Study: BILD Reisen
Tripled AI mentions and claimed 45% of travel search clicks: how BILD Reisen became the answer in LLMs
“We needed to be perceived as a place where people can actually book travel.”
an Axel Springer company3×the AI mentions for travel booking questions
In just 11 weeks, BILD Reisen launched a comprehensive travel content hub integrated with its bookable inventory. The result: a 3x increase in AI-generated search mentions and a similar SEO effect. Now 45% of all Google search clicks across the entire travel section come from scaile content.
- Mentions in AI answers3×For travel booking questions, tripled inside one stable prompt panel, 10 to 30 June
- And it paid off in Google too45%Of every Google Search click on bild.de/reisen came from the pages we produced
A travel library that both search engines and assistants could use
BILD Reisen is BILD’s booking-oriented travel platform.
The problem
- Assistants did not read BILD Reisen as a place where a whole trip can be booked in one go.
- Google traffic went to competitors that are bigger and have been in the category far longer.
- No clear publishing pipeline for transactional articles.
The solution
- Understand BILD Reisen and what they actually sell.
- Build their own knowledge and the standards of a publishing house into every article.
- A publishing workflow that runs from insight to published article, and on to the refresh.
The result
- Mentions in AI answers to travel booking questions tripled.
- It paid off in Google too: 45% of the travel section’s Google Search clicks landed on the pages we produced.
“We needed to be perceived as a place where people can actually book travel, not only read about it. At the same time we are held to the highest publishing-house guidelines, and everything we publish has to be factual and correct. scaile saw the problem, understood us, and made us more efficient and more effective without changing the way we work.”
Serge Heitmann
CEO, Axel Springer Teaser Ad GmbH / AdUp Technology
A brand everyone knows, that AI never named
Assistants answering German travel questions recommended competing tour operators and booking portals. BILD Reisen was not among them, and there was no library of its own for an assistant to draw on.
The constraints made it harder. Every article had to be verifiably true and properly sourced, keep advertising and editorial apart, state EU air-passenger compensation tiers correctly, and never send a reader to a competing operator or booking portal.
Recommendations could only point at hotels the client was able to sell. A travel brand cannot ship content that invents a price, cites a dead source, or names a hotel the business does not offer.
How to make a publisher visible in AI search, in five steps
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Find the questions customers ask
A pre-launch baseline was recorded on a tracked panel of German travel prompts, then rebuilt in July as 45 non-branded booking questions weighted by demand.
Find Customer Intent3
Publish content that sells
Every article produced under a rule requiring three to five authoritative sources and blocked from naming a competing operator. From late June, hotel recommendations were gated against the client’s bookable catalogue.
Publish Content4
Update to stay relevant
We diagnosed the live corpus and refreshed every article in it with a rewrite that could not drop or invent a price. It ran on every page at once with no holdout, so the refresh is reported as an operation and not as a result.
Refresh Content5
Report and improve
Monthly reporting with independent verifiers re-deriving every published number. When a figure turned out to be a measurement artefact, we corrected the report and removed the comparison.
Report and Improve
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SimonCo-Founder and CEO