Press release: Search Engine Success - Terry's guide to dining & entertainment in Southwest & South-central MI dominates key Google searches

Terry's guide to fine dining and entertainment in South-central and Southwest Michigan dominates key Google categories by leveraging its blog and database of over 400 personally recommended eating and drinking establishments.

Founder and "foodie" Terry St. Louis launched MichiganFoodandDrink.com because he was frustrated with database driven, self-serve dining guides that list fast food places, online directories that allow restaurant owners to post their own information, and other Internet guides that are not kept up to date and list establishments that are no longer in business or have changed ownership.

Terry's guide is a labor of love. Terry regularly blogs and adds new personally reviewed and recommended dining and entertainment venues. See MichiganFoodandDrink.com if you are interested in finding a good place to go. Terry's guide features "only the good places."

Summer is here. Southwest and South-central Michigan have plenty of great summer vacation destinations. Terry's Guides invites anyone who is interested in finding "only the good places" to visit MichiganFoodandDrink.com and look through the database. You will not be disappointed.

Delivering unique and valuable original information through blogs and other social media is a time tested search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. Terry's commitment to regularly updating his guide with personally selected new "hidden treasures" and old neighborhood family favorites is directly responsible for his website and blog's search engine success(SES).

Following are few examples of Terry's guide's fist page search engine success in key Google categories.

"only the good places": #1, #2, #3 and #4 out of 73,500 Google results worldwide.

Michigan Restaurant Guide: #1 of 15,100,000 Google results.

South-central Michigan Restaurants: #1, #2, #3, #4 and #7 of 6,550,000 results.

Southwest Michigan Restaurants: Fifth out of 853,000 Google results.

Michigan Dining Guide: Fourth out of 7,620,000 results.

Southwest Michigan Dining: #4 and #5 out of 571,000 results.

Terry St. Louis has leveraged Team Hypernet's search engine optimization methodology to attain his search engine success. Team Hypernet defines SES as having one's website found on the 1st page when using relavent Google search terms. [more]

New place added in Paw Paw

How about a place where the chef is the owner and used to be the chef at the Black Swan? Go to Paw Paw and try Cafe' 237. Bill Sutcliffe does a great job with farm to table cooking. He even makes the thousand island dressing from scratch for his top selling reuben sandwich. The corned beef is cooked and cured inhouse. I liked the goulash (not what you think). Chalkboard menu changes frequently with lots of new ideas. Lunch and dinner except weekends when breakfast is available. Check out the guide for a full review and details.

Terry's Guide

Terry's Guide is now up and operational!!!

We have restaurants all over southwest Michigan along with breweries and wineries. We also have some bakeries and cider mills. Speaking of cider mills, it is that time of year to take the family for some cider and donuts. Check out Terry's recommendations in the guide. The one in Fennville even has a restaurant.

Remember the only restaurants in here are ones we have visited and are recommending to you!

Also, since the Paw Paw wine festival was just finished you know the harvest is underway and the wineries are great to visit on these cooler fall days. If you drive through the vineyards you may be able to smell the grapes as they are being harvested. While in wine country check out the restaurants in the wine towns and nearby. One winery even has a restaurant and it is very good! It has a great view overlooking the vineyards.


Have you taken a drive along the lakeshore? Remember many restaurants here will close for the winter. Make sure you get to your favorites or try some of our recommendations before they shut down.


Let us know how you like these places and if they are new to you, please let them know where you heard about them.