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If a page is optimized for certain search terms that have "nyc" at the end of them, will that help the page appear when someone in NYC searches for the terms without the "nyc" part?
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Thank you, Alan!
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If the type of products or services offered are most likely to be known from a search intent perspective as being geo-location relevant, the answer is yes, this can help, but only to the extent that the content is truly optimized for that geo-location relationship. Just slapping "NYC" into a Title, and maybe on the page itself isn't necessarily enough - so you'd want to be sure to recognize that fact.
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