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maybe not eat street but what about order ahead? found 3 in 10 minutes with a seperate .net domain, 2 ranked #1 over the resturants .com domain with google places pointing to it. poor form order ahead. do the restaurants know your 'takeout' site ranks ahead of them on google and the google places points to your site? is this something they agreed to?

Tarascos Mexican Restaurant

Lemon Poppy Kitchen

La Luna Negra

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I'm the author of this blog post and just want to comment that it's very hard to rank a fresh site ahead of the restaurant's true website. The inbound links from Yelp, Trip Advisor, Urban Spoon, and Open Table give carry a lot of page rank and it's likely got more history behind it too. Although I bet Order Aheads App could be doing some cross linking schemes in the background to elevate their sites. But it's only by claiming their Google Places profile that they get to intercept the primary traffic. Look at what happened to Order Ahead site for Bar Pintxo after updating Google Places...it fell to 4th in the SERPs.

The .net site even includes a helpful hint to 'Additional Restaurants'. How generous of La Luna Negra to advertise their competitors! /s

http://lalunanegra.net/additional-restaurants/

whoops, I mean to post that comment to the papaver comment:/. Nice to spot this link building scheme in the background. This could aggregate some significant link weight over time if they have some more complex than Google normally catches and penalizes with reciprocal linking.

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