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TOP 25 TRENDING RESTAURANTS IN DELHI NCR

TOP 25 TRENDING RESTAURANTS IN DELHI NCR

Read More: http://toprestaurantsindelhi.blogspot.in/2013/11/top-25-trending-restaurants-in-delhi-ncr.html

#1

The Flying Saucer

4.0

Nehru Place, Delhi

ITALIAN, MEDITERRANEAN,...

#2

Skooter - Hotel Samrat

3.7

Chanakyapuri, Delhi

PUB

#3

Warehouse Cafe

3.6

Connaught Place, Delhi

LOUNGE

#4

Pirates of Grill

3.7

MG Road, Gurgaon

NORTH INDIAN, CONTINENTAL,...

#5

My Bar Lounge & Restaurant

3.5

Connaught Place, Delhi

NORTH INDIAN, MUGHLAI, CHINESE

#6

Barbeque Nation

3.7

Connaught Place, Delhi

NORTH INDIAN, CHINESE,...

#7

White Waters

3.7

Connaught Place, Delhi

ITALIAN, CHINESE, NORTH...

#8

Lodi - The Garden Restaurant

3.5

Lodhi Road, Delhi

EUROPEAN, LEBANESE,...

#9

Parikrama - The Revolving Restaurant

3.4

Connaught Place, Delhi

NORTH INDIAN, CHINESE,...

#10

Jynxxx - Eros Hotel

3.6

Nehru Place, Delhi

NORTH INDIAN, CHINESE, PUB

#11

Bukhara - ITC Maurya

3.7

Sardar Patel Marg, Delhi

NORTH INDIAN

#12

Nando's

3.5

Vasant Kunj, Delhi

PORTUGUESE, CAFE

#13

Out Of The Box

3.4

Hauz Khas Village, Delhi

NORTH INDIAN, ASIAN,...

#14

Zerzura - Clarion Collection - Qutab

3.6

Qutab Institutional Area, Delhi

MIDDLE EASTERN, MOROCCAN,...

#15

FIO Country Kitchen and Bar

3.6

Saket, Delhi

ITALIAN, NORTH INDIAN

#16

Rajinder Da Dhaba

4.0

Safdarjung, Delhi

NORTH INDIAN

#17

The Pink Room

3.6

Hauz Khas Village, Delhi

ASIAN, MEDITERRANEAN,...

#18

Hard Rock Cafe

3.8

Saket, Delhi

AMERICAN, MEDITERRANEAN,...

#19

Striker Pub and Brewery

3.9

Golf Course Road, Gurgaon

LOUNGE, CONTINENTAL,...

#20

Vapour

3.6

MG Road, Gurgaon

CHINESE, CONTINENTAL, NORTH...

#21

Big Chill

4.0

Khan Market, Delhi

ITALIAN, CONTINENTAL, DESSERTS

#22

Amour - The Patio Restaurant, Cafe ...

3.3

Hauz Khas Village, Delhi

CONTEMPORARY,...

#23

Manhattan Craft Brewery

3.6

Golf Course Road, Gurgaon

PUB, AMERICAN, CONTINENTAL,...

#24

Olive Bar & Kitchen

3.7

Mehrauli, Delhi

MEDITERRANEAN, ITALIAN,...

#25

Ice Lounge

3.5

Saket, Delhi

NORTH INDIAN, CHINESE,...

Criteria for top 25

Top 25 trending restaurants in this city are selected on basis of user behavior on zomato for this week. These user actions include a weighted average of:

Pageviews of a restaurant on zomato website and mobile apps

Organic searches for the restaurant

Number of reviews (with 4 & 5 stars) and votes for a restaurant

Average time spent by a user on a restaurant's page

Lot of other interesting user behavior patterns which determine where our users are going, but too proprietary to disclose here. Also, we can't really disclose the weights of all these parameters - that would lead to a lot of spam!

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A REMINDER ABOUT SELLING LINKS THAT PASS PAGERANK

Google has said for years that selling links that pass PageRank violates our quality guidelines. We continue to reiterate that guidance periodically to help remind site owners and webmasters of that policy. Please be wary if someone approaches you and wants to pay you for links or "advertorial" pages on your site that pass PageRank. Selling links (or entire advertorial pages with embedded links) that pass PageRank violates our quality guidelines, and Google does take action on such violations. The consequences for a linkselling site start with losing trust in Google's search results, as well as reduction of the site's visible PageRank in the Google Toolbar. The consequences can also include lower rankings for that site in Google's search results. If you receive a warning for selling links that pass PageRank in Google's Webmaster Tools, you'll see a notification message to look for "possibly artificial or unnatural links on your site pointing to other sites that could be intended to manipulate PageRank." That's an indication that your site has lost trust in Google's index. To address the issue, make sure that any paid links on your site don't pass PageRank. You can remove any paid links or advertorial pages, or make sure that any paid hyperlinks have therel="nofollow" attribute. After ensuring that no paid links on your site pass PageRank, you can submit a reconsideration request and if you had a manual webspam action on your site, someone at Google will review the request. After the request has been reviewed, you'll get a notification back about whether the reconsideration request was granted or not. We do take this issue very seriously, so we recommend you avoid selling (and buying) links that pass PageRank in order to prevent loss of trust, lower PageRank in the Google Toolbar, lower rankings, or in an extreme case, removal from Google's search results. Posted by Matt Cutts, Distinguished Engineer

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Google's Official Guidelines For Moving A Business On Google Maps

We've covered the major issues with moving a business within Google Maps a couple times - in short, it is a scary and upsetting thing to have to deal with - on top of all the other issues with Google Maps.

Google's Jade Wang finally gave official advice on what to do when you do move your business. She wrote in a Google Business Help thread:

Verified business owner of a page, and is your business moving locations? Here's what you do.

Edit your address in Google Places for Business or in the Google+ page admin area, whichever you are using to manage the page. This will either make a new page or edit the address on the existing page. It may take a week or two after editing your address before you see an update. At this point, you may need to go through a verification process again. Don't worry -- this is normal.

If you see a page that's still got the old address, click on Report a problem and mark that location as closed. Provide the link to the new address or information about the new location if possible. You can find more instructions on closing a location here: http://goo.gl/YZIjq

I actually took these steps for my business and it did create two listings. But I do not want to mark my old listing as "closed" because my old listing still is the number one result. I do not want my business to appear as if we closed down.

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PPC: Should You Buy Ads when You Rank Organically?

Pay per click offers one strong advantage over organic: you can buy your way into the top listing. For many companies, this is the only way they’ll ever see the number 1 Google position for highly competitive keywords.

For other companies, pay per click is often used as a temporary measure, or a testing platform to see just how attractive certain keywords are before they start focusing their organic SEO efforts on certain keywords. In most cases the idea is that once you’re able to claim top organic rankings for your keywords, you then no longer need to pay for them.

But can pay per click still be beneficial even after you’re topping the Google rankings?

As in so many things, the answer is “it depends.”

When you’re the #1 organic ranking, you still aren’t #1

One thing you always have to keep in mind is what the search engine results page looks like for your keywords. Let’s take a look at this search phrase for “CNC Machining Southern California”

We can see here that the number one organic position is Pendarvis Manufacturing. They’ve clearly done their homework to climb up to the coveted top ranking. But… users still will see three paid listings above them.

We know that users click on ads, and the higher your position the better. So there are actually a chunk of people looking for CNC Machining Southern California who will never even glance at that first organic listing. While Pendarvis is no doubt claiming the majority (or plurality) of traffic from that search phrase, it’s very possible that they could claim yet more if they had a paid ad in addition to their organic listing.

At Ecreative we manage pay per click as well as organic SEO accounts, and for many of our clients we see great gains in traffic and conversions by maintaining paid ads in addition to top organic listings. After all, if our ad isn’t appearing up there on the top, it’s not like those people are going to move down to the organic listing — they’ll just click whatever ad does appear on the top.

The only way to claim that traffic is to be there.

Don’t pay for ads if you don’t have to

On the other hand, not every search phrase has paid ads associated with them. In that case paying for ads is good only if you aren’t already topping the SERP rankings. Let’s take our Gronnor test site that we built to demonstrate The Grizzly Equation.

When we search for this (made-up) word, our test site is the first result — not just the first organic result, but actually the first result. There are no ads competing for user attention.

In most situations like this that we see with actual clients, if we pay for an ad for this keyword we do generate traffic from the ad, but then our organic traffic drops by exactly that amount. So by paying for an ad you’re just spending money to get the clicks that you’d otherwise get for free.

In situations like this you usually don’t want to pay for ads for keywords for which you’re already achieving a top organic rankings.

Click distribution and Google ads

We’ve discussed click distribution of Google ads in the past, and we know that statistically somewhere between 40% – 50% of users are going to click on the first organic result. That’s why we work so hard to reach that first result.

But that’s also why being number 1 isn’t the end of the battle. After all, if you’re the number one-ranked result, you’re still missing out on at least half of the search traffic. But the more positions you claim — both organic and pay per click — the larger the share of that search traffic you can direct to your site.

The only way to know is to test

Ultimately, the only way to know if it’s worth paying for keywords that you already rank well organically is to test your Google Adwords campaigns.

Spend a couple months with your ad campaign on pause and measure your organic traffic from the keyword. Then turn your ads back on — see how much traffic your ad draws, and what happens to your organic traffic.

If you get 3,000 extra clicks from ads, but your organic click-throughs drop by 3,000 it’s clearly not worth it. But often you’ll find that you see your ad click-throughs have minimal, or even zero, impact on your organic traffic. In that case it’s just a matter of optimizing your pay per click campaign to maximize your traffic and conversions from both channels.

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Is Domain Age Important SEO for Google Ranking ?

The short answer to the question is yes, domain age is an important SEO factor for your Google ranking. Among the hundreds of weighting factors that Google considers in determining how to rank search engine results is the age of your domain — in other words, how long that domain has been around.

It’s worth noting that domain age isn’t referring just to how long you have owned a given domain name, but instead how long it has been since Google first indexed that domain, or saw a link to the domain. Because of this many companies purchase “aged” domains that have been around for a while for the extra bit of Google oomph. Of course just because a domain has been registered for 10 years doesn’t mean that Google considers it 10 years old — it has to have actually had a site indexed by Google.

In other words a domain that’s been registered for 10 years but has no actual site up, or nothing that Google has ever found, is the same as a domain that you bought yesterday.

How Important is Domain Age for SEO & Ranking in Google?

There is a certain amount of debate about exactly how important domain age is to your ability to rank well, but testing and experience by SEO professionals paints a pretty clear picture that an older domain age competes for rankings a bit better. In fact, Google has even stepped forward to tell us a little bit about the importance of domain age, though as usual they’re still holding their cards close to their chest.

Here’s the basics of what we know:

Domain age is a factor in determining Google rankings, and a part of our SEO.

Sites are significantly devalued for the first few months after Google first discovers them. It is extremely challenging to rank well for competitive terms in those first few months. In fact, some SEO professionals simply won’t work with brand new domains.

According to Google’s Matt Cutts, the difference between a domain that’s 6 months old and 12 months old is very small.

What Google’s matt Cutts has to say on domain age

Here is a video from Google’s Matt Cutts on the subject:

Watch it out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pnpg00FWJY&feature=player_embedded

One of the very important things to note here is that Matt does not say that domain age doesn’t matter. There are a handful of people out there who insist this is the case, and cite Matt Cutts as the source. In point of fact, he clearly indicates that very young domains will struggle to rank, and goes on to mentions the difference between domain ages, saying that they are small… clearly indicating that there is, in fact, a difference.

“The difference between a domain that’s six months old vs one year old is really not that big at all. As long as you’ve been around for at least a couple of months, you should be able make sure that you can show up in search results.”

But as with all things in the SEO world, domain age is just one of many, many factors and it is certainly not one of the biggest factors (those would be on-page optimization and backlinks). Older domains will certainly have a little bit of an edge, but the importance of their age is often confused with the fact that older domains also tend to have a lot more backlinks (and natural backlinks) just due to the fact that they’ve had so many years to acquire them.

But as long as your site has been around for longer than those first few months when domain age is a big factor, you should be able to swing with the oldest of them and claw your way to the top of your Google rankings!

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Google Panda #25 Coming Today? Not Sure.

An ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some chatter around an increase in GoogleBot crawl activity as well as some early ranking fluctuations.

That and we are just about the 30 day mark from the previous Google Panda update, Panda #24, we are suspecting a Panda update is about to be hitting today or tomorrow.

Normally, days before a Panda update is announced by Google, we see this type of chatter and GoogleBot activity. The issue is, it has been almost 5 months since the lastconfirmed Penguin update, so webmasters are unsure what is going on with that.

That being said, Mozcast showed some activity the other day, so did SERPs.com, however SERPMetrics doesn't show much, and now DigitalPoint shows changes (See "Search Engine Rank Changes") also but nothing crazy.

Is a Panda refresh about to hit us? I suspect so but only Google can confirm that.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

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What can Google Analytics Do For You?

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My Google Rankings Dropped! Where Do I Look First?

A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster asking a very common question - where do I start looking first if my traffic falls by 50%?

The Webmaster asked where does he start looking to analysis why there is a drop in his traffic.

He did immediately check Google Webmaster Tools for warnings or notifications, but nothing came up. No hack notifications, no SEO issues reported, no unnatural link warnings - so what is wrong?

Many SEOs would also jump to their analytics to see where the source of the traffic drop was from. Was it Google organic search? If so, which keywords dove most? Which landing pages took the biggest hit?

Based on figuring those details out, you can then try to understand if it was algorithmic or maybe a technical bug on your site.

Tedster, WebmasterWorlds administrator, wrote:

1) If you dropped 10 or more positions, then something in the algorithm probably decided to demote your site. Looking for that factor is one kind of analysis. It could be either a recent change that you made, or it could be a change in the algorithm that Google made.

2) If just one of your big keywords dropped just a few positions (say from #1 to ##4 or 5) then it may be about a different kind of algorithm change - one that is rewarding your competitors' sites for some factor rather than demoting your site.

There are so many places to look, from competition, to your own site, to a bug on your end to a bug on Google's end.

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Google Fixes Webmaster Tools Link Reporting Bug

A week ago we reported a massive drop in links reported within Google Webmaster Tools.

After about a week or more of the bug being reported, Webmasters are just now reporting that their link count is returning back to normal.

One webmaster said:

Yes data is now back. I have gone from 85 links last week to 3051 this month. Good news.

Note, if your link count is not yet back to normal, do not worry yet. I'd assume this can take a few days to propagate out to all sites within Google Webmaster Tools. I'd wait a few days to see if the link numbers return back to normal.

Google has not yet confirmed it has been fixed but it seems like a fix has been rolling out this morning.

Forum discussion continued at WebmasterWorld & Google Webmaster Help.

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Google Index Status Report Updated Weekly

The other day someone shared an interesting site with me on Google Webmaster Tools. It was intriguing, so I dug into it. In short, the site had 33,000 pages indexed according to the sitemap report within Google Webmaster Tools but only 3 pages indexed according to the Index Status report within Google Webmaster Tools.

I decided to ask others in the Google Webmaster Help forums if they have ever seen anything like it because I clearly never covered this case at this site.

The answer was no.

Some history about the site:

The site is a few weeks old.

The site has a sitemap file a couple days after it went live.

The site command seems to have about thousands of pages being returned.

Google Webmaster Tools Shows:

33,000 of 33,000 pages submitted and indexed via the Sitemap report.

3 pages indexed according to the Index Status report

Why wouldn't the Index Status and Sitemap index counts match up?

I asked Google's John Mueller on a Google Hangout yesterday and he said:

Typically the Index Status report is a weekly snap shot, so it is delayed

Sitemap numbers are updated daily

Index Status and Sitemap report on different index types

Since this site is new, do not worry

I ask the question right at the beginning of the hangout, so just start the video and you can watch his response.

In this business, you see something new every day. I am glad I dug into this example, but this is not an open invitation to send me your issues. I probably respond to 1% of them because I am not a nice person. ;-)

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Google Removes "Not Selected" Within Google Webmaster Tools Index Status

If you login to your Google Webmaster Tools and go to the Index status report, then click on advanced, you will see Google removed the "not selected" option from the report.

Not selected was a very intriguing option within the report. We've talked about how you can use not selected in the past, in fact, Google's John Mueller said it is useful in that:

The number of "not selected" URLs is based on URLs that are either substantially similar or redirecting -- if you have changed your site's URL structure and have redirected those URLs, then that would be a good explanation for that. That curve would also be fine and not a signal of a problem.

Why did Google replace it? Google has not said why yet. There are threads inWebmasterWorld and Google Webmaster Help but no response from an official Googler yet.

Most webmasters probably have never used the feature but many did find it useful.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Google Webmaster Help.

Confirmed: John Mueller of Google responded to my question on Google+ confirming it was pulled. He said:

Yep, this was removed on purpose since it was causing more confusion than actually helping webmasters with their sites.

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Does Building Too Many Links Too Fast Hurt You In Google?

A WebmasterWorld thread has an SEO asking, what is the recommendation in terms of how many links you should build, in order not to trigger some type of red flag with Google where you trip the "link velocity" threshold.

Fun question but the truth is, there is no such number of threshold.

Think about it for a minute.

There are new sites that launch all the time that get tons of outstanding press, which leads to tons of outstanding links.

Now if Google sees all those links and notices also a huge spike in news and social activity around the site, I suspect they know these links (the majority of them) are legit. If all is quiet on the news front and there is very little social activity, I assume that would raise a red flag.

So sites can get huge surges in links, especially if they make it to the news or get hot socially but if not, be careful.

About two years ago, we wrote about a case study of a new site getting too many links too fast and showed how there was a surge in traffic, which soon died out.

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You Can't Add Or Edit Your URL Parameters In Google Webmaster Tools

There is a bug in Google Webmaster Tools right now where you cannot add, edit or delete URL parameters within the interface.

The issue started Thursday, January 24th and was reported in two different Google Webmaster Helpthreads.

When you access the interface to manage your URL parameters in Webmaster Tools, the buttons to edit or delete or even add parameters is simply not there.

Google's John Mueller is aware of the issue and he said he has reported it to the appropriate team. John wrote:

Thanks for posting. It looks like the buttons have gone missing for you there, sorry! I'll check with the Webmaster Tools team to see what we can do about that.

There is no ETA for a fix.

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Hey Matt, Links In Press Releases Do Impact Your Search Engine

Right after Christmas Matt Cutts said something pretty bold within a Google Webmaster Help thread that I covered asGoogle Says Press Release Links Won't Help Your Search Rankings. But is it true? An SEO tested it and found this not to be the case.

First, let me quote Matt Cutts of Google:

Note: I wouldn't expect links from press release web sites to benefit your rankings, however.

It is pretty clear - don't try to use press releases as a way to embed links within them and expect them to have a positive impact on your ranking goals within Google.

But the test this SEO ran showed that he was able to rank Google's Matt Cutts blog for the keyword [sreppleasers] with only creating a link within a press release pointing to Matt's blog. It did not rank for sreppleasers beforehand, only after there was a link to Matt's blog from a press release. And today, it still ranks:

Why does this work if Matt said it shouldn't? Well, maybe Matt was talking about more competitive terms? Maybe Matt was thinking of a specific few press release distribution companies? Maybe Matt was confused?

Matt has been offline for a while, I hope everything is okay - but I have not heard from him in a while. So he has not addressed this directly. Maybe he will, but maybe he won't?

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Google's Internal Linking Penalty?

A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who runs about 150 web sites. Three of those web sites noticed a ranking decline in Google around the same time. He said, the only common factor amongst those three sites and not the other 147 sites were how they used anchor text on the home page to link to the home page.

The webmaster said he believes those sites were penalized because they use generic anchor text on the home page, pointing to the home page, for the site's topic.

The webmaster wrote:

Of the 150 of so i am managing currently, 3 were hit a couple of months ago, and the only thing i can see in common is they all have a home page link on their main keyword to home.

eg

Cats - anchor text to home page.

Window cleaning - anchor text to home page.

Many agree that this can cause the home page to not rank for the keyword being targeted in the anchor text being used internally.

To me, it sounds a bit strange and too simple. But hey, most of the webmasters agree with this.

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My Google Rankings Dropped Due To Bounce Rate Attacks!

I love these myths that come up from places deep inside the paranoid SEO mind. A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster claiming his rankings dropped in Google because his site was hit by a "bounce rate attack."

The webmaster wrote:

My website has recently seen a dramatic increase in bounce rate. Our bounce rate is typically between 1% to 3% on a monthly basis. However, starting in December our website has been attacked (for lack of a better term) by someone trying to artificially increase our bounce rate in an effort to decrease our search engine ranking- and they have succeeded.

Really?

Well, Google has said (believe them or not) that they do not use Google Analytics data within the ranking algorithm. They also said numerous times that they find bounce rates from the search results to a web page and back to be a spamable and noisy metric and don't use that also. And despite all this Google+ social stuff Google is working on, they currently barely use those metrics in the search ranking algorithm.

So to think a bounce rate attack can have a direct impact on your rankings, well, is not proven by what Google tells us.

Now, of course, you don't have to believe what Google tells us and then the bounce rate attack theory can work.