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Win the search that happens in a car park two streets away.

Local SEO decides whether you are among the three places Maps shows to somebody standing nearby with an hour to spare. GullySales completes the Business Profile with current photographs, prices and parking, and keeps it saying the same thing as Zomato and Swiggy.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What local SEO means

Local SEO is the work of making your business show up for searches that name your town or locality, such as a service plus an area name. GullySales sets up locality pages, local citations and map listings so nearby customers find you before a competitor across town.

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Sales and marketing for restaurants, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026. Rules for this trade differ by state and professional body, and they change. We describe restrictions in general terms, so check the current position with your own council or adviser before you publish anything.

For restaurants

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The three-pack is the whole shortlist”

    Nobody scrolls past the first three on Maps when they are hungry and already in the car.

  • “Parking decides more than the menu”

    In most of Bengaluru, a listing that says where to park beats one with better photographs of the food.

  • “Your hours are wrong on a festival day”

    Closed for Ugadi while the listing still says open is a one-star review you have earned for free.

What we do

What we deliver for restaurants.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. The Business Profile filled in completely

    Cuisine categories, hours including festival closures, price for two, dine-in, takeaway and delivery flags, parking, and whether a cake may be brought in.

    Result: The questions that lose a walk-in get answered.

  2. Photographs shot this season, not at the opening

    The current dishes at current prices, the interiors as they look now, the entrance and the parking, uploaded in a batch and refreshed every few months.

    Result: People choose the restaurant that exists today.

  3. The same details on Maps, Zomato and Swiggy

    Name, address, hours, phone and menu prices made to match across all three, since a mismatch confuses the customer and the listing alike.

    Result: One restaurant, one set of facts.

  4. Maps posts for the festival menu and the weekday offer

    Short posts published a week before Ugadi, Onam or Ramzan and again for the weekday offer, because a post reaches somebody searching now.

    Result: The offer arrives at the moment people are choosing.

  5. Questions on the listing answered by you

    The questions section seeded with your real answers on parking, jain food, high chairs and the private area, rather than left to strangers.

    Result: A guest gets your answer instead of a guess.

  6. Maps reporting on searches, calls and directions

    The count of discovery searches, calls, direction requests and website clicks, read against the baseline recorded at the start.

    Result: You know how many covers Maps actually sends.

How the result is measured

  • Map pack ranking
  • Local search visibility
  • Enquiries by locality

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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What Google weighs here

How a hungry customer finds a restaurant nearby, and what to fix first.

Primary category
Choose the most specific one: South Indian restaurant, Biryani restaurant, Family restaurant. Add Takeaway and Delivery restaurant as secondary where true. A vague primary loses the diner who types a dish.
Menu and dish photographs
Add the menu and photographs of your best-selling dishes, with the names written the way diners say them. Photographs from this season replace the ones from opening week.
Parking and entry details
Add attributes such as parking, family-friendly seating and outdoor seating only if true, and photograph the entrance. A diner who cannot park or find the stairs drives on to the next result.
Hours for festivals and Mondays
Set special hours for every festival day and the day you are shut. A diner who arrives at a shut door writes a review about it, and the review lasts longer than the closed day.
Zomato, Swiggy and Maps agree
Match name, address, phone and opening hours across Maps and the delivery apps. A delivery app listing at an old address, or a wrong phone number, sends orders and complaints to the wrong place.

Who it is for

This is written for these restaurants.

  • Family restaurants and multi-cuisine dining
  • South Indian vegetarian restaurants and darshinis
  • Biryani, kebab and non-vegetarian specialists
  • Regional cuisine restaurants
  • Casual dining and bar restaurants
  • Quick service restaurants and food courts
  • Cloud kitchens and delivery-only brands
  • Office canteens and food service operators
  • Multi-outlet restaurant groups

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • The outlet cannot open at the hours shown on the listing, so showing as open would send guests to a closed door.
  • Your parking and entrance are going to change, so a listing described now would send guests to the wrong place.

How it works

How the local SEO work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Write down what is true

    Each branch's real address, signboard name, phone, hours and owning Google account go into one record you sign off. Every later listing is copied from it.

  2. 2

    Search as your buyer does

    We search each branch on a phone from points around it, in your buyers' words, and note who appears with what reviews and photos.

  3. 3

    Fix the profile first

    Ownership first, then name, address, pin, phone, hours and business type. Google can suspend a profile with extra words in its name or an address that is not a real premises.

  4. 4

    Build the branch pages and match the listings

    Each real branch gets its own page, and the other listings are changed to agree with it. We write none for towns without a branch, because Google treats near-identical pages as doorway pages.

  5. 5

    Ask, reply and measure

    We agree with each branch who asks for reviews, when and how. Results are set against the baseline recorded before work began, and the branch that is behind gets the next round.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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How do we get into the top three on Maps?
Completeness, recent reviews and distance, roughly in that order. Distance you cannot change, so the work sits on the profile and on a steady flow of fresh reviews.
We have three outlets. One listing or three?
Three, each verified at its own address with its own reviews and photographs. A single listing for three outlets sends people to the wrong branch and buries the other two.
We are a cloud kitchen with no seating. Can we have a Maps listing?
A delivery-only kitchen can be listed as a service area business with no street address shown, but the platform's rules for kitchens change, so check them. Name the delivery areas, and say clearly there is no dining on site.
A customer photo makes our dish look bad. Can we have it taken down?
Only if it breaks the platform's rules, such as being about another place. Otherwise add your own clear photographs of the same dish, and reply to any review that goes with it. New photographs soon outnumber the one you dislike.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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