{"id":510,"date":"2008-03-01T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/01\/review-sites-in-the-restaurant-world-dallas-vs-buffalo\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T06:54:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T10:54:21","slug":"review-sites-in-the-restaurant-world-dallas-vs-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/01\/review-sites-in-the-restaurant-world-dallas-vs-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Review Sites in the Restaurant World &#8211; Dallas vs. Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/review-sites-in-the-restaurant-world-updated-feb-2008\/\">which review sites<\/a> were considered by Google in the ranking of the Top 10 Restaurants in Buffalo, NY. Here is a similar analysis of the review sites for Dallas compared to Buffalo:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" height=\"393\" width=\"466\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Directory<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>2008 February Buffalo <\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>2008 February Dallas<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">10best.com<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>AOL.Com<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">ChefMoz.org<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">8<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Citysearch.com<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">70<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>DallasObserver.com<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Dine.com<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>DiningGuide.com<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Dinnerbroker.com <\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Dishola.com<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Frommers.com<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Gayot.com<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Google<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">5<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">InsiderPages<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">20<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Judysbook.com<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">41<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Mytravelguide.com<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>RestaurantRow.com<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>SuperPages.com<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">TripAdvisor<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">31<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Virturaltourist.com<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">Yahoo.com<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">20<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><strong>Zagat<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Several items of note:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 There were 7 additional review sites referenced in Dallas (those in bold)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Judy&#8217;s Book which shut down last October (although the site is still live) seemed to have much more of a Buffalo presence<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Zagat has a very strong presence in Dallas but little in Buffalo, I wonder why?<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2The Dallas Observer, an obviously local site, has a presence<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2CitySearch is the obvious leader in both cities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I looked at which review sites were considered by Google in the ranking of the Top 10 Restaurants in Buffalo, NY. Here is a similar analysis of the review sites for Dallas compared to Buffalo: Directory 2008 February Buffalo 2008 February Dallas 10best.com 1 2 AOL.Com 7 ChefMoz.org 8 2 Citysearch.com 70 80 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}