
When taking over a restaurant with a poor online reputation, owners face a critical choice: repair the existing Google Business Profile or start fresh. Unless you are changing the brand name and concept entirely, rebuilding is the superior strategy. This involves claiming the listing, rebranding it as "Under New Management," performing a "deep clean" of both the physical and digital presence, and using tools like Localyser to aggressively generate new 5-star reviews to bury old negativity.

The Localyser Listing Management Tool centralizes control over all your Google Business Profile (GBP) listings. It allows you to view, edit, track, and publish all your location updates to Google with a single click. This ensures your location data is consistent, accurate, and up-to-date across all your profiles, which is essential for driving local traffic and sales.

This comprehensive guide covers online listings management, from its foundational importance for local SEO and customer trust to advanced strategies for AI search, reputation management, and measuring success.

As Google Search integrates more AI-powered features like AI Overviews, restaurants must adapt their SEO strategies to focus on accurate, engaging, and dynamic content that can appear directly in search results. This blog explains how optimizing Google Business Profiles, using structured data, and leveraging visual and multimedia content are essential for staying visible in an AI-driven search landscape.

This guide helps restaurant owners set up, claim, and verify their business on Google Maps using Google Business Profile. It covers key steps, including verification methods like video verification, while addressing issues like listing suspensions and duplicates. By following these tips, you can boost visibility, attract more customers, and grow your business online. Whether you're new to GBP or refining your listing, this guide is your go-to resource.

A guide showing restaurants how to get the Certificate of Excellence from Tripadvisor. It’s a peak moment as we enter the revival of the hospitality and tourism industry — to pay attention and showcase your restaurant through reviews and ratings.

There are many ways that restaurants handle their online reviews across different platforms. We’ve looked at all these different approaches and put together this ultimate guide to monitoring, responding to, and analyzing reviews.