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Ranking A Website For Mulitiple Counties, Cities And Towns
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Hello All,
I am optimizing three websites for a services based company in the South Jersey Area.
Of course within South Jersey there are certain counties, cities and towns I would like to show up for.
For example- Pool Cleaning
South Jersey Pool Cleaning
Cherry Hill NJ Pool Cleaning
Burlington County NJ Pool Cleaning
Voorhies NJ Pool Cleaning.
Do I need to create a page on my websites for every possible county, city and town I want to rank for?
This would entail creating thousands of pages targeting these geographic keywords.
I have seen other similar sites just list all the counties, cities and towns they service in the footer and it seems to work.
Of course this would be beneficial for any business who is looking to not only rank in their home base but a predetermined radius around their home base as well.
Thanks so much, Bill
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Creating different page for every city and county is someway spammy and actually doesn't give great user experience... just think if you would like to visit a site where are "tons" of pages, actually not adding anything valuable to the website.
Create one page where you can list in nice list style cities you offer your service and look for interesting local directories where you can add your business. If any specific city is more important than others... you can create an article about it... like... How to Find Good Pool Cleaning Company in New Jersey... and give some good tips how find company, without excessively promoting your own company... you can refer there to review sites and other places, where your business is listed and has good reviews...
About local listing, you can find some information here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-beginners-checklist-for-small-business-seo - but for this one is important where your business has office.
Hopefully it's useful information Bill, good luck with business!
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Hi,
You have some alternatives:
1. You can create a list of cities ... but is better to specify each element of the list with H3 or H4 tag
2. You can create a list with cities(links) and make a page with dinamic content you can add the text you need by passing the parameter to other page
3. Search for an image and map on it and add alt or title to each map on image
4. Add div with images pieces of map add ALT and title to images with cities or towns create a small galery
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