What page are you expecting to rank for “Newton restaurants”? And if people are ending up on the Johnny’s Diner page, why doesn’t that page include the site’s true value?
The reason I said the Johnny's Diner page doesn't show the value is because t;s the area search that's most useful. I have added links to the area search from the Johnny's Diner page, and that might be why I'm slowly seeing this upturn in traffic from 350 to 500 (the dates tie in with when I released the code)
How the heck are you expecting this to rank for anything?
> On that page I have good canonical URL, pagination, rich text, SEO text, links to similar pages, all the standard stuff.
Here's what I see when I load that URL:
I see absolutely nothing like what you describe on that page.
Meta description: Find great restaurants in Sallybrook on menucosm.com Meta title: Restaurants in Sallybrook
Really?
And if the area search is so valuable on the Johnny's Diner page why are you linking to it and not making it a primary focus of the page?
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 and the 3 most recent;y added restaurants. I didn't want to put anything specific, I guess I probably should have!