SEO agency in Cyprus. Studio in Limassol.
Alcaris Media is a small, senior, founder-led SEO studio in Limassol. We help hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars, and villas across Cyprus get found on Google in Greek and English, then turn that search into direct bookings that carry no commission.
The search moment
A couple in Limassol at seven in the evening, phone in hand, typing “seafood restaurant near me”. A family in Paphos looking for “hotel with pool Coral Bay”. The search happens before the walk-in, before the phone call, before the OTA. Whoever appears in the map pack gets first choice of that guest.
Google answers most of these searches with three names, a map, and a button that says Directions or Call. That map pack is decided by relevance, distance, and prominence: how well your Google Business Profile matches the query, how close you are to the person searching, and how much Google trusts you based on reviews, citations, and your website.
The venues that win here are rarely the biggest. They are the ones whose profile is complete and current, whose menu or room pages answer the question that was asked, and whose reviews are recent and answered.
Most of your guests search in English. Many of your locals search in Greek. Both queries land on the same map, and hospitality and local SEO is the work of making sure your name is on it in both languages, in Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca, or Paphos, wherever your guests are standing.
Places
Your restaurant
Seafood restaurant Limassol Marina
Open until 23:00
Competitor A
Seafood restaurant Old Town
Open until 23:00
Competitor B
Fish tavern Germasogeia
Opens at 18:00
More places
The leaks
Most venues in Cyprus do not have a demand problem. Guests are searching every day. The bookings leak out somewhere between the search and the confirmation, usually in one of five places.
None of these leaks needs a bigger budget to fix. They need attention, in the right order. That is what the first 90 days are for.
Booking.com, Expedia, TheFork, and the delivery apps take a cut of every reservation they pass along. Many of those guests were searching for you by name. A direct booking path that appears first keeps that margin in the house.
Old opening hours, a menu from two summers ago, no photos of the terrace, an owner who has never logged in. Google fills the gaps with guesswork, and guests fill them with the next result.
Guests are on the phone, on holiday data, in the sun. A page that takes seconds to load loses the booking to a competitor whose page has already loaded. Google’s own guidance treats page experience on mobile as a ranking signal.
A review left unanswered for months tells a guest nobody is home. A reply in the guest’s own language, within days, turns even a complaint into a reason to trust you.
Locals search in Greek, visitors search in English, and Google treats them as different queries. A site and a profile that speak only one language give away half the map.
The first 90 days
No retainer should begin with a discovery phase that lasts a quarter. This is the sequence we run for a hotel or restaurant in Cyprus, and it starts in week one.
The same sequence runs whether you choose Local Visibility, Growth, or Full-Funnel. The plan decides how many hours go into each step, not whether the step happens.
Full detail on each discipline lives on the services pages.
Week 1
We audit the Google Business Profile, the website, the reviews, and the rankings in Greek and English. We set up tracking for calls, direction requests, and bookings so that month one has a baseline to be judged against.
Weeks 2 to 4
Google Business Profile rebuilt and verified. Technical fixes shipped: speed, indexing, schema, hreflang. Citations corrected across the English and Greek directories that Google checks your details against.
Month 2
Pages for the things guests actually search: menus, rooms, occasions, neighbourhoods. A simple review request flow so recent reviews keep arriving, and a reply to every one of them.
Month 3
We compare month three to the week one baseline, drop what did not move, and put next month’s hours into what did. You get the whole picture in writing, including the misses.
Expectations
Honest expectations in plain language. These are typical patterns for hospitality venues in Cyprus, not promises, and we will tell you in the audit if your situation looks different.
The analytics and reporting work exists so you never have to take our word for any of this.
The report
One document, sent on the same day each month, written so an owner can read it in ten minutes between lunch service and the evening shift. Four sections, always in this order.
Between reports there is a weekly log. Read more about results and reporting.
Monthly report
Your venue · Month three
What shipped
What moved
What did not
Next month’s plan
Pricing
Published prices, month to month, no setup fees. Nobody should need a sales call to find out what an agency costs. Ad spend for paid media is billed by Google or Meta directly and is never marked up.
Plan 01
690EUR / month
A single restaurant, cafe, bar, or small hotel that needs to be found and chosen in its own town.
Recommended for most venues
1,450EUR / month
Restaurants and boutique hotels that want direct bookings to grow quarter after quarter.
Plan 03
2,800EUR / month
Hotels and groups that want search, paid media, and analytics handled by one accountable team.
Not sure which plan fits? Start with the free audit. The written findings recommend one plan and explain why, and you can ignore the recommendation without hurting our feelings.
Every plan is built from the same four disciplines: local SEO, reviews, paid media, and reporting. One email ends it at the end of any month. The pricing page has the plan-by-plan guide and the cost questions.
Why us
You could hire a bigger agency in London or Athens. Here is why an owner in Cyprus might think twice, and what a small studio down the road can do that a large one cannot.
To see what others cannot, to know what others will not: this is the edge.
More on how we work is on the about page.
We work with hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars, and villas in Cyprus, and not much else. We know the seasonality, the OTA contracts, the Greek and English split, and what a quiet Tuesday in November looks like from behind the bar.
The person who audits your venue does the work and writes your report. There is no account manager in between and no junior learning on your budget. When you email, the reply comes from the person who made the change.
A weekly log of what we did, published pricing, month to month terms, and a free audit you keep even if you never hire us. If the numbers are not moving, you can leave with one email and take everything with you.
Questions owners ask
If yours is missing, ask it in the audit form below and we will answer it in writing.
Plans run from 690 to 2,800 EUR per month depending on scope, and the full breakdown is published on this page. There are no setup fees and no minimum term. Ad spend for paid media is billed by Google or Meta directly and never marked up by us.
Google Business Profile and technical fixes can move calls and direction requests within weeks. Meaningful ranking shifts usually land around months three to four, and compounding momentum around month six. These are typical expectations for hospitality venues, not promises, and you see the work and the numbers every month either way.
Local search is where small venues beat chains. Most searches like "book a table tonight" or "hotel near the marina" are decided in the map pack, and the map pack rewards relevance, upkeep, and reviews rather than budget. That is winnable territory for one good venue.
You should not trust claims, ours or anyone else’s. That is why we lead with a free audit you keep, publish our prices, and work month to month. Judge the audit, then judge the first ninety days. Our founding client offer exists precisely so that real, permissioned results can be published.
No. Paid search brings immediate visibility while organic search compounds underneath it. We coordinate both so they aim at the same bookings instead of competing with each other, and we pass ad spend through at cost.
The studio is in Limassol and we work with venues across Cyprus, including Nicosia, Larnaca, Paphos, Ayia Napa, and Protaras. Most of the work is remote, with visits when a venue walk-through or photo session would help.
Yes. Locals search in Greek and visitors search in English, so profiles, pages, citations, and review replies are handled in both. Where a venue also serves Russian, Hebrew, or German speaking guests, we plan for those queries too.
Nobody can guarantee placement in an AI answer, and anyone who promises it is guessing. What helps is the same foundation that wins search: structured data, clear and authoritative pages, consistent citations, and a strong review profile. We build for that.
From the notebook
Notes on search, reviews, and bookings for owners in Cyprus. Written by the people doing the work.
All insightsWhat actually drives the price of SEO for a Cyprus hotel or restaurant, the three ways it is usually sold, and exactly what Alcaris charges and why.
7 min read
A month-by-month view of what typically moves first for a Cyprus hotel or restaurant doing SEO: calls and directions in weeks, rankings around months 3 to 4, compounding around month 6.
7 min read
Who searches in Greek, who searches in English, when a Greek version of your site is worth building, and how to set up hreflang, Greeklish, and your Google profile properly.
7 min read
Free audit
Send us the venue and the website. Within 5 working days you will have written findings you keep whether or not you hire us. No pitch deck, no pressure.
What happens next
Venue name, website, and what you would like to change. Two minutes, no call required.
A short note confirming what we will look at, and one or two questions if the brief needs them.
Your Google Business Profile, rankings in Greek and English, site speed, and booking path, with the fixes in order. You keep it whether or not you hire us.
Prefer email? contact@alcarismedia.com