Local Search - Multiple Locations, do i link the home page or the inner page?
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Hello,
For a business with multiple locations that has a web url built for each location such as:
For local search (Google+, Yelp, etc), is it best to link the local search pages to the specific page of that location? Or is the homepage sufficient enough?
I ask that because it is ALREADY touch getting NATURAL links to a location page, so would local search do me good by linking to the exact page of the location?
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You should definitely link to the specific landing page for each location if you have separate Google+ pages for them.
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Hi Shawn,
You can do this either way - link to the home page or to landing pages from your citations. Personally, I prefer to link to the local landing page for each location, not because of linkbuilding, but because it may help cut down on listings getting merged with one another. I feel it's always best to do my utmost to differentiate multi-location listings, and the URL is one way to do that. This is also the case with multi-practitioner listings, too.
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I would do multiple pages as they will be wanting to target unique keywords per page.
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