Local SEO for restaurants.

The work that gets a restaurant into the map and the search results when people nearby look for somewhere to eat. Local SEO for restaurants covers your Google Business Profile, your menu, reviews and photos, your listings across the web and the pages on your website.

Our plans start from $499 a month for one restaurant, month to month, with no setup fee. Professional starts from $1,299 a month for up to 3 locations and Dominate from $3,799 for up to 3 with the most work each month. Four to ten locations are $400 a month plus $250 a location. The exact plan and price are agreed on the call.

Profile changes like the category, the menu and the hours are usually made in the first weeks. Google says menu changes can take 24 to 48 hours to show, and some other edits take longer to review. Moving up the map usually takes months, depending on how strong the restaurants near you are. After the free check we tell you what looks realistic for your area.

Google ranks local results on relevance, distance and prominence, and says there's no way to pay for a better local ranking. Relevance is how well your profile matches the search, so your category, menu and attributes matter. Prominence is how well known you are, which Google judges partly from your reviews and how many websites link to you. Distance is how far the diner is from you, which you can't change.

Both. Add your dishes to the profile with prices and sections, where diners see them under Menu, and point the menu link at the menu on your website. Google may also copy menu data from your website onto your profile, so keep that menu current too. If a diner's photo of an old menu shows up, flag it and upload the current one.

Yes, if you work with a provider that connects to Google. Reserve with Google's partners include OpenTable, Resy, Tock, SevenRooms and Yelp, and restaurants can also add a waitlist through one of them. The provider may charge you for bookings that come through Google. For pickup and delivery, ordering providers that say they work with you show up on the profile, and you can add your own ordering link and mark it as preferred.

Yes. In the Food ordering section of your profile, pick the provider and remove its link. Google says providers must take the link off within 5 business days of the request, and you can report a violation if they don't. You can also turn off orders on your profile, which hides every ordering link.

Google asks restaurants to list the hours when diners can sit down and eat. Without dine-in, use takeout hours, then drive-through hours, and delivery hours only as a last resort. Set special hours for holidays and events, and confirm your holiday hours even when they're the same as usual, so diners know they're right. Times for a specific service can go in More hours, inside your main hours.

Partly. You can set a cover photo, but Google doesn't promise it shows first, and it may pick a diner's photo instead if yours is low quality. Add sharp, well-lit photos of your dishes, room and front door often. A photo that breaks Google's rules, such as one of a different place or one that shows personal information, can be reported for removal. A photo that's only unflattering doesn't break the rules, so it usually stays.

Reply, and keep it short and specific: thank them, say what you're changing if the complaint is fair, and give them a way to reach the manager. Your reply is posted publicly under the review. The reviewer is notified and can still update the review after reading it. We give you templates for complaints like this.

The requests go to every guest the same way, through receipts, table cards or your booking system, with a direct link to your review form. Google doesn't allow discounts, free dishes or gifts for reviews, asking only the guests you expect to be happy, or reviews from your own staff, so we do none of those. How many reviews come in depends on your guests.

Yes. Each location diners visit gets its own profile, with its own address, hours, phone number, menu and photos, and Google doesn't allow more than one profile for the same location. A restaurant or bar inside a hotel has its own profile, separate from the hotel's. Professional covers up to 3 profiles and Dominate up to 10.

Yes. The profile work takes an afternoon: the category, the hours, the menu, the reserve and order links, the attributes and a set of good photos. What takes time is keeping it up every month: menu changes, holiday hours, review requests, replies and photos. The free check tells you what to change first, whether you do it yourself or hand it to us.

No. Google says no one can guarantee a ranking, and anyone who does is guessing. We do the work inside Google's rules and show you the results in your monthly report.