Digital Marketing in Chitwan and Bharatpur, Nepal

I'm Shashikant Shah, a digital marketing expert based in Kathmandu. I work with businesses in Chitwan remotely, in their own accounts, and I travel to Bharatpur or Sauraha for the first meeting when it helps. I'm useful to the safari lodges in Sauraha that take guests from India and Kathmandu, and to the hospitals, colleges, poultry and agricultural suppliers, shops and restaurants in Bharatpur and Narayangarh. I'm also a software engineer, so I build the booking pages and the tracking myself. The wider picture is on my digital marketing expert in Nepal page.

Short answer: working with me from Chitwan starts with a free thirty minute call. Then a written audit and 30 day plan for USD 249 (about NPR 34,000), and monthly work in your own accounts with a plain language report. A Sauraha lodge starts with how guests book. A Bharatpur business starts with the map pack and a phone that is counted.

How people in Chitwan find a business

Chitwan is two markets. Sauraha lives on Chitwan National Park: jungle safaris, lodges and resorts. The guest is usually an Indian or a domestic tourist who searches "Chitwan safari package", reads the reviews, compares an OTA and messages on WhatsApp for the price.

Bharatpur is the city. Hospitals and colleges draw patients and students from across the Terai, Narayangarh is where the trade happens, and the poultry and agricultural suppliers, shops and clinics around them are found the same way as anywhere: Maps first, then Facebook, then a phone call.

Both markets end on the phone or WhatsApp, and almost nobody counts which enquiries came from Google. That is the first thing I fix, because until calls are counted, ad spend is a guess.

Sauraha lodges and the safari booked on WhatsApp

A Chitwan safari is chosen by an Indian or a domestic tourist who searches "Chitwan safari package", reads the reviews, compares an OTA and messages the Sauraha lodge for a price. The lodge that answers in an hour with a page to point to gets the booking.

Bharatpur hospitals and clinics searched from across the Terai

Bharatpur hospitals draw patients from Nawalpur, Makwanpur and the hills, so the search is typed in another district, often in Nepali, and the right category, department pages and a number that answers decide who gets the call.

Narayangadh retail and the highway trade

Narayangadh is where Chitwan trades: poultry and agricultural suppliers, showrooms and shops found on Maps by buyers passing through on the highway, who call rather than fill in a form.

The problems I see most often:

• A Sauraha lodge whose site ranks for its own name and nothing else, so the guest books on an OTA.
• A booking form that fails on a phone, or no WhatsApp number on the profile.
• A Bharatpur hospital or college with the wrong category, old hours and unanswered reviews.
• No tracking, so nobody knows whether the enquiries came from Google, Facebook or an agent in Kathmandu.

What I do for businesses in Chitwan

• SEO for trekking and hospitality: pages that rank for the safaris and rooms guests search for, in India and Nepal. You get direct enquiries instead of OTA commissions.
• Local SEO: the profile, area pages and reviews for Bharatpur and Narayangarh. You get the map pack for "dentist in Bharatpur".
• Google Ads for guests planning a safari and for patients and students in Bharatpur, plus Meta ads for the weekend traveller from Kathmandu. You get enquiries at a cost you can read.
• Web development: a booking path that works on a phone and a slow connection, with a WhatsApp button that is counted. You get a site you own.
• Google Business Profile management: current hours, real photos and a reply to every review. You get a listing that stays accurate.
• Tracking: calls, WhatsApp clicks and forms counted in your own Analytics. You get a monthly report that says what changed.

If you run a restaurant, a hospital or clinic or a college, those pages say what I do for each.

SEO in Chitwan and Bharatpur

Chitwan has two search markets with almost nothing in common. Sauraha sells jungle safaris and lodges to visitors who search from abroad and from Kathmandu, in English, months ahead, against booking sites and tour operators. Bharatpur is a medical and commercial city: people across the central Terai search "cancer hospital Bharatpur", "dental clinic Narayangadh" or "poultry feed supplier Chitwan" and pick from Maps. The district also has one of the strongest agricultural and poultry supply chains in Nepal, with buyers who search by product rather than by town.

For Sauraha the work is pages per package and lodge type, country targeting and reviews. For Bharatpur it is the Business Profile with the right category, service pages and a fast site. For suppliers it is product pages that match what a buyer in Pokhara or Butwal types. I run all of it in your own Search Console. The local SEO and hospitality SEO pages have the detail.

Websites for Chitwan and Bharatpur businesses

A lodge in Sauraha needs the same thing a Lakeside hotel needs: a booking path that works on a phone abroad, clear prices, and a way to reach you on WhatsApp. A hospital or clinic in Bharatpur needs a site that answers the questions patients ask before they travel: doctors, timings, how to book, how to get there, in a few seconds on mobile data. A feed or seed supplier needs a page per product with the specification and the quantity.

I build all three kinds of site, fast and in your own name, with tracking that records the enquiry and the country or district it came from. If the existing site mostly works, I fix the speed and the forms first. The website development page has the prices.

Google Ads in Chitwan

Google Ads in Chitwan is two campaigns. For Sauraha, Indian and domestic travellers searching "Chitwan safari" and "Chitwan jungle resort", with Hindi and English copy and a WhatsApp conversion. For Bharatpur hospitals, colleges and Narayangadh suppliers, a Terai radius on department and product searches with calls counted. Both run in your own ad account, spend is separate from my fee and goes from your own card. The published benchmarks are cost per lead down 40% at steady spend and cost per acquisition down 46% in 90 days. Method on the Google Ads expert in Nepal page.

How it works from Chitwan

First call. Thirty minutes, free, on the phone or a video call. You tell me the business and what's not working. I tell you whether I'm the right person.

Audit and plan. You get a written plan with the order of work, the numbers I'll report and what's not included. You keep it whether or not you hire me.

Monthly work and report. The work happens in your accounts, with you as the owner, and every month you get a plain language report from your own Search Console, Analytics and ad accounts. I travel to Chitwan when a project needs it.

The first 90 days for a Chitwan business

Each month after that, from Chitwan

Every month after that a Chitwan client gets the work done in your own accounts and a plain report from Search Console, Analytics and the ad account, remotely with a visit to Sauraha or Bharatpur when a project needs it.

What you get when you work with me from Chitwan

• Diagnosis first, and you keep the findings whether or not you hire me.
• Everything stays in your name: the website, the ad accounts, Search Console, Analytics and your Google Business Profile.
• Published prices and a plain language report every month, from your own accounts.
• No guaranteed rankings, no bought links, no fake reviews. The first thirty minute call is free, and I answer my own phone: +977 9845451010.

Choosing someone for digital marketing in Chitwan

Bharatpur has a growing set of local agencies, and Sauraha lodges often use Kathmandu operators or a booking site's own marketing. Before you hire anyone, including me, work out which problem you have. If visitors cannot find you on Google abroad, that is international SEO. If patients cannot find you on Maps, that is the Business Profile and the site. If the ads spend without enquiries, that is targeting and tracking. A content package fixes none of those.

Ask for a dated result, proof that the accounts stay in your name and a written price. I work from Kathmandu, travel to Chitwan for the first meeting when it helps, and my case studies and Google reviews are public.

Proof from work like yours in Chitwan

I haven't published a result from a Chitwan business yet, and I won't invent one. The nearest published results by mechanism are both from Kathmandu: a clinic whose map views went from about 2,100 to about 9,240 a month in six months, with calls up about 85%, and an ecommerce shop that went from 2,300 to 13,500 organic sessions a month in 12 months.

Some of these came from engagements I worked on as part of an agency team, so read them as account totals rather than mine alone. Maps, search and ads work the same way in Chitwan. The baselines and dates are on the case studies page.

What it costs in Chitwan

My prices are published. An audit of your Google profile, your pages and your tracking in Chitwan with a 30 day action plan is USD 249, about NPR 34,000. A four week sprint is USD 899, about NPR 122,000. Ongoing work is USD 1,800 a month, about NPR 245,000. What each one leaves out is on the pricing page. The first thirty minute call is free, and if a single lodge or clinic only needs the audit, I'll say so.

Questions from Chitwan businesses

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