Comments on: SEO Advice: Make a web page for each store location

By: liz

liz — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:14:22 +0000

Thanks Matt for going over the subject and providing some light and information. I agree that sitemaps are overlooked and are invaluable tools for a website.

Thank you for sharing Liz.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:13:40 +0000

Great post Matt!
One of the most highly over looked pieces of web design is a sitemap. I would think that every web designer would create this for their clients as just a normal task but 9 out of 10 sites I work on never have a sitemap. Love the post..thanks!

By: Clive

Clive — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:03:39 +0000

Matt, thanks for this post it does clear up some questions I was trying to find answers to. The one thing that is still not clear to me is how this affects the ‘duplicate content’ issue.

If I have a site for one city that is targeted at “plumber city A” and I create a second site for City B that i want to target at “plumber City B”, how much of the content do I have to change?

Expand this to 10 or 20 sites for say independently owned franchises and it becomes fairly tough to have unique content and still keep the branding message intact.

By: David Thomas Marquardt

David Thomas Marquardt — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:00:16 +0000

That could end up being thousands of pages. I’m glad I don’t have this problem. We only have one location.

By: tonyzhao

tonyzhao — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:49:00 +0000

As I stated above we have 10 domains targeting each city for our web design business and they are keyword generic domain names. To build and promote our brand and identify we have used the same design structure on all of our websites, however each site has a unique content written. Can that prove to be a negative point/aspect in the eyes of the search engines?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:40:08 +0000

A great idea – could this idea help with promotion of any website? ie setting up lots of city specific versions of your own website… all linking back to the main website?

By: Tom Peerless

Tom Peerless — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:51:53 +0000

In my market the business holding the A spot simply had a friend provide him with his address near the town center. Then he spammed it with links from forums. I love google maps but it is so abused. Searching for a service in my home town where my PC is located, google provides a company from 45 miles away.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:57:11 +0000

Hey Matt,

I work at a company that is a is a broker but deals with transportation and when people search for our service they include locations in their searches but since we are a broker we are only located in one location but service very large areas. Would we be allowed to have a website dedicated to many different locations or would we have to be physically located there for that to be okay?

By: Frances

Frances — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:01:27 +0000

Now, I am wondering if this plan will work if you want to optimize your site for multiple cities even if you don’t actually have a store in each location?

By: Rick Rentz

Rick Rentz — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:10:06 +0000

I own an internet based Texas apartment locator company. We serve all four major Texas metro markets and we have offices in each. My site starts off emphasizing Texas Apartments for rent then branches off to individual cities served then to individual areas in each city then to actual apartments in each area of town. It's seems to be doing fine, but my competitors advertise as Houston or Dallas apartment finders primarily then branch off from there, which doesn't make much sense to me, but obviously does to Google because they rank well. Any suggestions? I think my site's Christmas tree structure is pretty clear cut.