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Restaurant SEO: How to Optimise Your Restaurant (or Café) Website & Attract More Hungry Diners

26th February 2019 - By Ahmed Khalifa - Tagged With: seo

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For many local businesses, competition is intense. And for restaurant and café owners out there, it’s no different. They face constant challenges to attract diners to their premises.

The big chains tend to dominate the search traffic so the smaller, local restaurants (and cafés) might feel like they are having a hard time trying to compete.

However, what I do find is the majority of these smaller restaurant websites could be a lot better and actually have more potential than they might think.

They focus on 3rd party sites like TripAdvisor or Yelp instead, which means they have little control and face more competition with other restaurants and cafes.

With the help of an effective and structured restaurant SEO strategy, this can translate to better search results, drive more relevant traffic to your website and fill up your dining room with hungry guests.

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How to Use Quora for SEO & Content Marketing

12th February 2019 - By Ahmed Khalifa - Tagged With: content marketing, seo

If you are not familiar with Quora, it is the largest online question and answer platform, where people (mostly) ask genuine questions and receive answers from those who have the knowledge and expertise about that particular topic.

It sounds very simple but, since its launch in 2009, it has grown into a huge platform with over 300 million monthly unique users. And because of that, it can be an absolute goldmine for SEO and content marketing.

How to Set Up Google Analytics Goals & Track Conversions?

29th January 2019 - By Ahmed Khalifa - Tagged With: google analytics

How are you currently tracking your website’s online goals?

Sure, you can look at the number of sessions, bounce rate and your most popular landing pages via Google Analytics. But let’s face it, they should not be your main goals.

And if that applies to you, then you are missing out on important data such as conversion rate.

They are the important data that will define your business, so if you have not set up Google Analytics goals or you don’t know if you have done it correctly, you need to read this post.

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‘A Little History of Philosophy’ by Nigel Warburton – Book Review [Video]

26th January 2019 - By Ahmed Khalifa - Tagged With: book reviews, health

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Have you ever thought about the topic of philosophy and how it can help you as a person, spouse, parent, business owner, employee, etc.?

You’d think that I would focus my readings more on topics such as business, marketing and personal development.

But reading about philosophy can have an indirect impact on all of those and more, so it was time for me to get right into.

To get me started with the topic of philosophy, I picked up ‘A Little History of Philosophy’ by Nigel Warburton.

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NordVPN Review: A VPN Provider That You’ll Love

15th January 2019 - By Ahmed Khalifa - Tagged With: privacy, security, tool reviews

If you have been searching for a VPN (virtual private network) or you’ve heard about it, you may have noticed that there are a lot of VPN providers out there to choose from.

One name that is consistently mentioned is NordVPN, and as I have been a customer since 2016 I figured that it’s about time I put together a review of NordVPN and how it has helped to protect me online.

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35 Things I Have Learnt in 2018

31st December 2018 - By Ahmed Khalifa - Tagged With: business, personal, personal development

As 2018 ends, it’s time to look back at what I have learnt and what are my achievements over the past year.

Even though I have shared things I have learnt in my first year of business, not only a lot has changed since then, but I have also learnt a heck of a lot too.

StudioPress Review: Why Use StudioPress, Genesis & their Themes for Your WordPress Site?

18th December 2018 - By Ahmed Khalifa - Tagged With: web development, websites, wordpress

The fact that there are tens of thousands of WordPress themes to choose from means that it’s a great time to be a WordPress user, as you are spoilt for choices.

But with that benefit comes the difficulty of deciding which one to go for.

Not only are they all vying for your attention, but the last thing you want to do is to unknowingly pick a low-quality, badly-maintained theme which will hold back your site.

So where do you start?

Best Freelance SEO Consultants in the UK

4th December 2018 - By Ahmed Khalifa - Tagged With: seo

There are many freelance SEO consultants across the UK and abroad, which makes it very hard to know which one to trust and pay for.

But there are also many “SEO experts” out there, who feel like they can offer advice and expertise just because they read a few blog posts and run an agency.

I’ve heard too many horror stories of what can happen if someone unknowingly ends up in the hands of those who are not right for you.

So rather than risk that happening to you, this post will outline some of the best freelance SEO experts within the UK.

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