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    • LittleDog
      LittleDog last edited by

      Hi my name is Gina and I wanted to ask for some advice. I'm thinking opening a diff location and was thinking if its a good idea to open up a new domain and new website? And why that may be a good idea and why or a bad idea and why?

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      • MiriamEllis
        MiriamEllis Subject Expert last edited by

        Hi Gayane,

        We have a long recent thread on this same topic here, https://moz.com/community/q/does-multiple-sites-that-relate-to-one-company-hurt-seo , which you might like to check out 🙂

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        • Eric_Rohrback
          Eric_Rohrback last edited by

          Unless the business locations are franchises and independently run, I'll say keep it all under one domain. Build location landing pages out for the different locations with unique content. Splitting them to separate domains will create more work for you (and the company) to maintain and build the authority. If you use location page silos, then you can keep content and links under one domain and consolidate your efforts. The divide and conquer approach won't work well if you don't have a pretty sizable staff (and budget) to work on both sites simultaneously.

          If you keep it all under one powerful domain you can have a setup like:

          Homepage > Location 1 (general) > Specialized services for location 1

          Homepage > location 2 (general) > specialized services for location 2

          That way you're able to capture traffic using each unique location page and more specific traffic for the services. All are sharing a benefit from the homepage authority, and you'd be able to internally link to the other locations so customers can easily find all the business offices. It's a little cleaner than replicating another site on a new domain... plus you need to think about creating all unique content for the other site, and making sure it's optimized... That would be a lot of extra (not needed) work.

          Keep it simple - one primary domain, and local landing pages for the new locations.

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          • ChrisAshton
            ChrisAshton last edited by

            Hi Gayane,

            It really comes down to a question of budget. Having a site for each location will allow you to be the most geo-targeted but if you have 5 different locations, that essentially means 5 SEO budgets. 5 lots of content (all having to be completely unique), 5x the link profiles and 5x the monitoring, planning and general campaign management.

            In reality, the best option for most of us is to use a single site for all areas. Since Google looks at a lot of domain-wide metrics these days, it means if you're boosting content and links to your Las Vegas page, your LA page is going to benefit from that to an extent as well.

            Rather than go into detail with ideas on how to do it, check out Rand's Whiteboard Friday on the topic.

            I hope that helps!

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