Sitemile

Restaurant SEO Services

Hungry people are searching. Be the table they find.

Great food doesn’t fill seats if nobody finds you. Sitemile puts your restaurant in front of diners at the exact moment they search — “best pasta near me”, “brunch open now”, “restaurants in [your city]” — with manual SEO work, real backlinks, and reporting in plain English.

  • From $599/month
  • 100% manual work — no automation
  • Month-to-month, no lock-ins

Diners find restaurants in two places. You need to win both.

Most restaurant searches end in Google’s map pack or on a website page that answers a specific craving. A restaurant SEO campaign that ignores either one leaves covers on the table.

Pillar one

Local SEO & the map pack

When someone searches “restaurants near me”, Google shows three listings above everything else. Getting into that pack — and staying there — is the single highest-impact thing a restaurant can do online.

  • Google Business Profile optimisation — categories, attributes, photos, posts
  • Local citations & directory listings with consistent name, address, hours
  • Review strategy — more reviews, better replies, higher trust signals
  • Location & neighbourhood keyword targeting

Pillar two

Website & menu SEO

Your website has to rank for the cravings, not just your name. Menu pages, cuisine pages, and event pages each capture searches your Google profile alone never will — and they work for you every night.

  • Menu pages built as real, crawlable HTML — not a PDF Google can’t read
  • Restaurant & menu schema markup so dishes and hours show in results
  • Pages for what people search: cuisine, brunch, private dining, delivery
  • Site speed and mobile experience — most diners search on their phone

Our restaurant SEO process

Six courses, served in order. Every step is done manually by our team and documented in your monthly report.

1

Discovery & research

We learn your restaurant, your area, and your competition — then map the exact phrases local diners type when deciding where to eat tonight.

2

On-page & technical

Titles, headings, internal links, schema markup, site speed, mobile experience, and crawlable menu pages. The foundation gets fixed first.

3

Local SEO

Google Business Profile optimisation, consistent citations across directories, and neighbourhood-level keyword targeting for every location.

4

Content that sells seats

Pages and posts for the searches that matter — cuisine, brunch, happy hour, private events, seasonal menus — written to rank and to make people hungry.

5

Link building

Manually placed backlinks and guest posts on real food, lifestyle, and local sites. No automated link tools, ever.

6

Reporting & refinement

A monthly plain-English report: rankings moved, work done, links placed, and next month’s plan. The strategy adjusts to what the data shows.

Built for independents. Scales to groups.

A single neighbourhood spot and a twelve-location group need different campaigns — but the same fundamentals. We run restaurant SEO for cafes, fine dining, fast casual, bars, bakeries, food trucks with a fixed pitch, and multi-location hospitality brands.

For groups, every location gets its own optimised page, its own Google Business Profile, and its own citations — so each restaurant competes in its own neighbourhood instead of fighting its siblings.

Tell Us About Your Restaurant

Independents

Own your neighbourhood’s searches

Multi-location

A local strategy per venue

New openings

Rank before the doors open

Delivery & takeaway

Capture “near me” and cuisine searches

Restaurant SEO from $599/month

One transparent monthly price, month-to-month, cancel anytime. Multi-location restaurants and groups scale into our larger plans or a custom retainer — the free audit tells us which fits.

Every plan is manual work only: real people optimising your profile, writing your pages, and placing your links. No dashboards pretending to be strategy.

Restaurant SEO Plan

$599/month

Per location · larger plans for groups

  • Google Business Profile optimisation
  • Local keyword research & targeting
  • Menu & location page optimisation with schema
  • Manually placed backlinks every month
  • Local citations & directory listings
  • Review strategy setup
  • Monthly plain-English report
Start With a Free Audit

Restaurant SEO, honestly answered

How much does restaurant SEO cost?

Our restaurant plan starts at $599/month per location, month-to-month with no long contract. Multi-location groups and highly competitive city-centre markets usually need a larger plan — see our full SEO packages or ask for a custom quote.

How long before we see more covers?

Google Business Profile and on-page improvements often show movement within weeks — local SEO tends to react faster than national SEO. Competitive terms like “best [cuisine] in [city]” typically take 3–6 months of consistent work. We never guarantee rankings; we guarantee documented work every month.

We already get bookings from Instagram. Why SEO?

Social reaches people who already follow you. Search reaches people who are hungry right now and haven’t chosen yet — the highest-intent audience a restaurant has. The two work together: search captures the demand, social builds the brand that makes people click your listing.

Our menu is a PDF. Is that a problem?

Yes, and it’s one of the most common ones we fix. Google struggles to read PDF menus, so every dish name diners search for is invisible. We rebuild menus as fast HTML pages with schema markup — often one of the quickest wins in the whole campaign.

Do you handle our Google reviews too?

We set up the strategy: making it easy for happy guests to leave reviews, and templates and guidance for replying to both good and bad ones. What we won’t do is buy or fake reviews — it violates Google’s rules and can get a listing suspended, which for a restaurant is catastrophic.

We have several locations. How does that work?

Each venue gets its own location page, its own Google Business Profile optimisation, and its own citations, so every restaurant ranks in its own neighbourhood. Pricing scales per location — get in touch and we’ll quote your group.

Tonight, someone nearby is searching for a place to eat.

Send us your restaurant’s website and we’ll audit it for free — your map pack position, your menu’s visibility, your reviews, and exactly what we’d do first. No pressure, no obligation.