What Checkle does to help you show up more online - The Basics

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Make your restaurant easier to find, easier to understand, and easier to choose across search engines, maps, directories, review platforms, and AI-powered search.

Your website becomes the clearest source of truth about who you are, what you serve, where you are located, and how customers can take action.

• Customer-focused pages for menus, hours, ordering, reservations, catering, private events, specials, and frequently asked questions.
• Crawlable menu text with item names, descriptions, prices, dietary details, and ordering links where supplied.
• Technical SEO including page titles, descriptions, canonical URLs, structured restaurant data, clean URLs, secure hosting, redirects, and mobile performance.
• Google Search Console setup, website verification, XML sitemap submission, and monitoring for crawl or indexing issues.

For many customers, the Google profile is the restaurant's primary storefront in Search, Maps, and the local map pack.

• Review and maintenance of name, address, phone, map pin, hours, holiday hours, categories, attributes, menus, photos, and location status.
• Correction of ordering, pickup, delivery, reservation, booking, and preferred-provider links where supported.
• Identification of duplicates, old locations, incorrect closures, outdated links, and conflicting profile information.
• An easy-to-use tool for publishing specials, events, seasonal items, news, and other timely updates to Google Business Profile and supported social platforms.

Checkle maintains one approved restaurant record and distributes it across the platforms customers and search systems use to verify local businesses.

• Supported platforms may include Google, Apple, Bing, Facebook, Yelp, TripAdvisor, navigation systems, restaurant directories, ordering services, reservation services, and delivery platforms.
• Daily listing-quality checks help detect missing information, rejected updates, duplicate records, old phone numbers, old addresses, incorrect hours, and broken customer-action links.
• Where platforms allow it, listings connect back to the restaurant's preferred website or location page, creating citation-based website mentions and links.

Reviews influence customer decisions and contribute to the restaurant's overall online prominence.

• A unified review feed from supported platforms such as Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Facebook, OpenTable, DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats.
• Review alerts, rating analytics, response tracking, location-level reporting, and AI-assisted response suggestions.
• Policy-compliant review campaigns using direct links, email, text messages, QR codes, and automated workflows where included.
• Review trend analysis that can reveal recurring service issues, popular dishes, staff mentions, delivery problems, parking questions, and ordering confusion.

Search engines and AI systems also look at reputable third-party sources to verify that the restaurant is real, established, and connected to the correct website.

• Checkle submits the restaurant to supported citation platforms and adds the preferred website link where the platform permits.
• We correct old, broken, or incorrect website links and connect each physical location to the appropriate location page.
• Citation work supports verification, consistency, customer discovery, and broader off-site presence.
• Custom PR outreach, paid link building, sponsorship acquisition, press pitching, and individually negotiated backlink campaigns are outside the standard scope unless separately agreed.

Online visibility deteriorates when hours, menus, links, profiles, and website content become outdated.

• Ongoing updates for regular hours, holiday hours, menus, prices, services, photos, ordering providers, reservation providers, delivery areas, closures, moves, and rebrands.
• Continued website maintenance including hosting, HTTPS, redirects, sitemap settings, structured data, crawlable navigation, and removal of expired events or promotions.
• Continued Google Business Profile, listing, review, citation-link, and publishing-connection monitoring.
• The restaurant remains responsible for supplying accurate changes and notifying Checkle before important operational updates whenever possible.