Being a Search Marketing Consultant, I need to keep up with what is going on in the SEO industry, and I was just reading an article in one of our Search Marketing Journals, and the topic of restaurant menus came up and how they can cause a restaurants website to be affected in the search engines. To make sure your restaurant menu affects your site positively, read and implement the suggestions below.

Restaurant Menu Tips

• Don’t have a scanned copy of your physical menu. This would be considered to be a graphic, and it would need to be a large graphic for potential customers to see it. Graphics that big slow a site down tremendously.
• Create a PDF of your menu, so customers can download it and print it out and PDFs can be indexed by the search engines.
• Link to your menu from your home page, don’t make customers search for it.
• Avoid small print.
• Avoid putting rules such as minumum purchase required.
• Avoid using Flash menus..Flash looks pretty, but can not be downloaded and is not search engine friendly.
• Update your menu frequently. When you make a change to your actual menu, make changes to your website menu.
• List your specials if at all possible. This could be a special section of your site, if you don’t want to include it on your menu.
• Display your prices please.
• Distribute your Menu to various menu sites to get even more exposure for your restaurant.

These are just a few suggestions for giving your potential customers and the search engines a menu that will meet the needs of both, and potentiall bring in more foot traffic.

If you would like to implement these suggestions but are unsure, please leave a comment or visit our SEO site by clicking the link at the beginning of the menu article.