Industry: Restaurant & hospitality · Location: Islamabad, Pakistan · Timeline: December 2025 to April 2026 · Services: SEO strategy, local search optimization, AEO & GEO optimization, search intent targeting and organic visibility & performance analysis.
Project overview
The Dome SEO campaign focused on establishing organic search visibility for a newly launched restaurant website in Islamabad's competitive hospitality market. The website launched with a new domain, a new keyword portfolio and no historical organic performance — SEMrush initially recorded zero estimated organic traffic, an Authority Score of zero and only four referring domains.
Within five months, The Dome reached approximately 4,200 estimated monthly organic visits, achieved top-five rankings for all 12 priority keywords, and built a strong organic acquisition presence. Google Analytics 4 attributed 77.91% of recorded website sessions to Organic Search, while the website generated more than 860 reported reservations during the campaign period.
The challenge: establishing SEO for a brand-new restaurant website
The Dome faced a challenging starting position: no established domain, no historical rankings and no existing organic traffic, in a competitive local search environment where established restaurants were already competing for users searching for dining experiences in Islamabad.
The campaign needed to build search relevance across restaurant-name searches, Daman-e-Koh location searches, fine dining, continental cuisine and general restaurant discovery — while developing an authority profile from only four referring domains.
Our SEO strategy
01. Establishing the SEO foundation — a clear relationship between website content, target keywords and the information users expect to find when searching for a restaurant, with discoverability, technical search readiness and performance measurement from day one.
02. Keyword research & search intent targeting — 12 priority keywords covering distinct restaurant discovery intentions, from users who already knew The Dome to those exploring restaurants without a particular brand in mind.
03. Performance monitoring — estimated organic traffic, keyword rankings, search impressions, recorded website visits and organic acquisition contribution evaluated through SEMrush, Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4, with the website reservation total tracked as a separate commercial outcome.
SEO performance highlights
Estimated organic traffic grew from 0 to 4,200 monthly visits; Authority Score from 0 to 17; AI Visibility from 2 to 33 (+1,550%); and referring domains from 4 to 274 (+6,750%). Nine of the 12 target keywords reached the top three, and all 12 reached the top five.
Both Daman-e-Koh restaurant queries reached position #1, three targeted fine-dining queries reached positions #1, #1 and #2, and the website achieved position #5 for the broader searches “Restaurant in Islamabad” and “Best restaurant in Islamabad” — reported visibility across both niche and competitive restaurant discovery terms.
Google Search & website performance
The newly launched website generated approximately 220,000 Google Search impressions and 5,880 recorded search clicks, with an average CTR of 2.7% and an average search position of 5.0 across the broader Search Console query portfolio.
Google Analytics 4 recorded 7,667 total sessions from 6,026 users, with a 69.51% engagement rate. Organic Search accounted for 77.91% of recorded sessions (5,973) and approximately 78.99% of first-user acquisition — establishing it as the website's leading acquisition channel.
Business outcome: 860+ website reservations
During the campaign, the website recorded more than 860 reservations, demonstrating its role in the restaurant's online customer journey. Because the available analytics do not identify the acquisition source of individual reservations, this total is presented as website-generated reservation activity during the campaign rather than reservations exclusively attributed to SEO.
The result
From a new website with no estimated organic traffic to 4.2K estimated monthly organic visits, six number-one keyword rankings, a 77.91% organic session share and more than 860 reported website reservations during the five-month campaign.
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