in need of some general SEO help and link building

You may not even need much in links to be honest. Depends how competitive your market is, but assuming you are just servicing your local market, citations should be a bigger emphasis than links.

I may have been able to help you, but apparently, you did not like my answer that I would not just sell you links.

Hi,


you can get a listing Google if you look on this link it will show you how - and you be on Google Maps as well so that people will know where you are:


https://www.google.com/business

If you have any articles make them SEO friendly by having a good title and keywords relevant to the title in the heading, and a few keywords within your article.


You can also upload a video to Youtube with a link to your restaurant - this will often rank very well in Google as Google owns Youtube.


Hope this helps.
Ged


Hope this helps.
Ged

Yes, submit your site to google webmasters.
There then you can find more instructions how to improve how you show in search.

Hi Mike,


I am only quoting from experiences I have had from uploading Youtube videos.


I don't gain anything from lying, in fact this technique was recommended to me a couple of years ago and it has brought me in a lot of traffic.


I don't just add a link to the video - I also write a 250 word article in the description area underneath the video and add a few keywords to it.


This not only helps me to rank videos very highly in Youtube, but also the page on my site that I had a point linking to.


Just my experience.


Best Regards
Ged

Maybe have your restaurant name as your domain name if it's possible.... for me that would be the first thing.

Maybe target keywords with your restaurant specialty and your local place in it like for instance "best pizza place new York" or wherever is your location.... check if people are looking for what you are offering in your restaurant by the type of search terms they type... and target these...

Thanks for all your replies, yes my restaurant does use the same domain name as the name of restaurant.

I started a new site for my restaurant's party hall and the domain name is very relative to its location. My party hall is on woodhaven blvd, so the site's name is Woodhavenpartyhall dot com. For both the restaurant and party hall I made a bing profile, google business profile, etc. yellowpages, yelp, etc. So yea those links are easy to obtain. Now how would I be able to get my links onto high DA/PA sites? Any info on this would be quite useful, thanks!

Create The links in social media profiles
Links is some event website
Blog and So on.......

Thread still not moved?

This thread is about SEO.

The offline forum is mostly about, well, offline.

If anything move it to the SEO forum.

Go for unique and quality content and this will solve all your issues related to SEO.

Hello Sammyz,

If you still need advice on how you can go about your restaurant website, I would like to suggest an approach that works extremely well for local businesses.

The most important thing that you should focus on is not your website and SEO.

Consider for a moment how you, your friends, and people around your area are looking for restaurants. Is it by looking up their websites, checking out Google Maps or maybe using Yelp to check the reviews before picking a place.

Once you identify it, I recommend focusing your first wave of attack there.

If you decide that a website it the best course for you to pursue, then focus on bringing relevant traffic to your site. By relevant, I mean local people that are in the mood for some good chow.

Consider where those people may be coming from. Is it the movies, office buildings for lunch or dinner, gym, etc. Brainstorm a little bit, then find their websites and try to get a link from them. The key to getting those local websites linking to your is to make that link more valuable to them than it is to you. Offer some discounts, free delivery, etc. I'm sure you can come up with something.

I will admit, links from local movie theaters, gyms, etc. are not going to give you a lot of ranking juice at first, but it'll give your website some referral traffic which is so much more valuable.

Local SEO goes by different rules than general/national SEO. Local business rankings benefit more from local links than blog posts or comments. If you decide to send some backlinks to your website, make sure those are quality local links coming from businesses in your area.

If you do it right and continue working on it, the traffic will come and with it, you will be ranking for local terms very well.

From my New York City based experience, however, restaurants are getting most of their traffic from Yelp, nowadays.

Although Yelp is not your property, you can do a lot with your account.

Fill it out as thoroughly as you can. I think free account allows you to upload up to 10 photos, so make sure every single one is professional looking, is nice and bright and shows good angles of the restaurant. This is your opportunity to sell your restaurant and make a good first impression so don't miss it.

Here is a little SEO trick that can get you Yelp profile ranking for keywords you want.

Every image that you upload to your Yelp account has its own unique URL. As long as you have a URL to work with, you can send backlinks to it in the same way as you would send backlinks to your website.

If you are able to, point several optimized anchor texts to each of the 10 images and your restaurant profile will start ranking for keywords you optimized for. If you need more guidance on it, don't hesitate to send me a PM.

Good luck and enjoy the process.

your choice and need is quite right because now a days it necessary for a new business
Last year we analyzed 1 million Google search results.

And we found that links impacted rankings more than any other factor
And they were right. Nearly 20 years later, links are STILL the best way to determine the quality of a webpage. That's why backlinks remain Google's go-to ranking signal.

People are usually on social media, so go target that area. People love taking photos of the food or if your restaurant has a unique and pleasing ambiance. Also, encourage them to leave reviews and check in to your location. Target locally, optimize Locally.

Best Link Building method

Article submission
Blog submission
Classified submission
Local business listing
PPT sharing
PDF submission
Question answering
Info-graphics submission
Forum profile creation

You can go through the following SEO techniques build links and generate traffic to your new restaurant website:

1. Keyword research and analysis
2. Add title tags, meta tag & meta description
3. Add h1, h2 & h3 tags
4. Optimize your website
5. Add Image Alt tags & use compressed Gzip images for the website
6. Add Sitemaps
7. Use High-quality content for your website
8. Setup your website on Google my business
9. Interlink your website
10. User-friendly & Mobile Responsive website
11. Use long-tail keywords
12. Add Remote.txt file
13. Remove 404 errors
14. Decreasing the loading time of a website.
15. Improve website uptime
16. Analyze your website using SEO audit
17. Integrate Social media icons
18. Forum posting
20. Guest blogging
21. Classified submission
22. Business listings
23. Podcast reviews
24. Testimonials
25. Referral Links
26. PR articles submission
27. Infographic submission
28. Social Media promotions
29. Blogging and commenting
30. Blog submissions
31. Link baiting

Have Do Perfect OnPage Work
Off Page Activities
Social Media Promotions

All you need your website fully on page optimized. Index your website to Google search console for visibility after that list your business at many famous places like yelp, yelloyello, etc. Also create some quality backlinks. As per your category there are many coupons sites available online you can generate your coupons and deals online easily. This can improve your rankings on Google.