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"likely doesn't benefit anyone other than Google"!!

Hey, thanks for getting back to me and taking a look. Newtown and Johnny's Diner were just sample names I came up with. If you go to the homepage, you'll see links to area searches…

Thanks alot for this very detailed response. That's interesting about Google's war with aggregators but makes total sense now that you say it. I do plan on integrating opentable, t…

Nice suggestion, thanks. Means I could pivot but still using my existing dataset

For something like "newtown restaurants" I hwas hoping the search results page for that would rank, something like menucosm.com /restaurants/newtown-123 . On that page I have good …

Initially I was targeting users, eyeballs on the site. If I could get a few 1000 a month, my plan then was to approach investors, saying "I've got this many people using the site, …

Thanks :-) I've learned loads developing the site, so it hasn't been a total waste.

Yeah, so freemium services to the restaurants was one of my ideas of making money. However, as you've pointed out, restaurants "just don't like to spend money where it isn't absolu…

Thanks for this. The main use case is "Hungry people looking for a place to eat" when they know where they want to go, or near their current location if on mobile. I guess the mark…

Thanks again

OMG, this is an amazing idea! Thank you so much. Something like this would get me the inbound links I need. It might involve some sort of a pivot, but definitely worth investigatin…

Yeah it was when I noticed that TripAdvisor listings for a given restaurant were featuring higher than the restaurant's ACTUAL webpage, that I thought I might be too late. However,…

Cool, thanks so much for the encouragement. In terms of functionality, yes, there's LOTS more I could build for sure, both from the regular user and the restaurant owner sides. I w…

TBH, I originally thought SEO would be enough to get some eyeballs, but as you point out, that's totally not the case! I tried contacting a few local food blogs, but none of them e…

I started work on a restaurant finder website about 8 years ago (so the domain is that old), took my sweet time building it(!) and finally launched it properly with plenty of conte…

Ah ok, sorry to hear that. With such a small development team, it sounds like it could be hard to move into management. However, this should also present opportunities: if you see …

I'm in a similar position at the moment. Basically what you want to do is ask for more responsibility from your PM, specifically to do work they'd normally do. Over time, that work…