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I think you have misunderstood me completely!  I am not out for highjacking traffic or getting juice from their links and would never in a million years think of such a stupid thing.  The client and I both agreed that the name was awesome and fits the business perfectly, that is the reason why I asked the question.  Simply because the name was so good and it would be a great shame to not be able to use it.

You being so emphatic about that point you were making, I am sure future readers will appreciate it and find it helpful.

Thanks anyway for trying to help!

Thanks Chenzo for the reply.  Yeah, they are not as powerful and far reaching as "go-pro" but they are still pretty big.  Their company has the potential to be global one day that's for sure.

For example - www.example.com (I purchase) and www.example.nl (is in use and well optimized but a different business model)

Seeing that this business (example.com) will be based here in the USA and theirs (example.nl) is in the Netherlands and they are both completely different models, is this ok?

They are well optimized for the name and it will be a little bit of a challenge to outdo them here in the US as far as the name goes, but the name is really good and the client wants it!

Actually I created a separate thread for this question.  I figured I would keep it organized.

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Site = e-commerce

Products = clothing (no apparel can be location specific like sports gear where you can do the location specific team gear (NBA, NFL, etc))

Problems =

a. no store front

b. I don't want to do any sitewides (footers, sidebars, etc) because of the penguin update

Question = How do you geo-target these category pages and product pages?

Ideas =

a. reviews with clients locations

b. blog posts with clients images wearing apparel and location description and keywords that also links back to that category or be it product page (images geo- targeted, tags, and description)

c. ?

Thanks in advance!

Great, thanks for detailed explanation!  Just one last scenario is what if it is an e-commerce site and you can't have location dedicated pages, only product pages?

Hey Kane,

Thanks for the response!  This question is very much related to this other question I posted, and the response I left to another member there directly affects what you are referring to here.  If you can please check out my response there and give me your thoughts on it I would greatly appreciate it.

here...

Thanks for the reply,

Here is my issue with that scenario;

1.  If I have 3 states and 30 towns and each has a geo targeted page on my site I will run into duplicate content issues

2.  I will not get the link relevance from google to the main keyword "real estate" (in this scenario).

So if I am looking to target the keyword "real estate" in general but just geo target the website I would be shooting myself in the foot here.

The thing that I rely on is google using IPs to return relevant results to the user.  So if someone types in "real estate" and they live in NYC, they will get NYC results, not just in the maps section either but in the SERPs as well.  So seeing that google is already geo targeting via the IP address, and let's say I want to do NYC and LA at the same time, I would want to target "real estate" in general and just geo target inbound linking pages back to the root domain.  This way it makes it where I don't have to have so many pages in my site and also I am optimized for the keyword "real estate" and "location" separately, and in turn I keep the integrity of my websites national or time zone campaign approach for the keyword "real estate."  Would this not be a good approach?

Also the other part of that, does google pick up a location in a description along with the keyword and correlate them enough to give it relevance.

I am just playing devils advocate here because I am not sure what the right answer is.

***So the main thing is to not waste resources optimizing "nyc real estate" when I can be optimizing "real estate" with the location attached somewhere else and let google play with the combinations (nyc real estate, real estate nyc, etc.).

For example...

state keyword (nyc real estate)

or

keyword, state (nyc, real estate) = 2 keywords

Thanks in advance!

For example...

Having links that are geo-targeted and pointing to this URL

www.test.com/state-service/

or

Not having any geo-targeted internal pages and just having links that are geo-targeted and pointing to this URL

www.test.com

Eventually the site will be a national campaign, so I am concerned about having so many geo-targeted internal pages.

Thanks in advance!

For example - www.example.com (I purchase) and www.example.nl (is in use and well optimized but a different business model)

Seeing that this business (example.com) will be based here in the USA and theirs (example.nl) is in the Netherlands and they are both completely different models, is this ok?

They are well optimized for the name and it will be a little bit of a challenge to outdo them here in the US as far as the name goes, but the name is really good and the client wants it!