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Thanks Mark!!  That helps a lot!!

At least I'm on my way to better optimization.

I've read some info about title tags and meta, and I'm getting a little confused.  If there is a previous discussion that I've missed, please redirect me.  thank you.

So I have a locksmith and one of his pages is on Auto Locksmith.

For every car, I have a page.  i.e Acura, Audi, BMW etc.

Here is my title tag:

• Acura Car Keys| Ignition Switch Repair| Key Duplication
• BMW Car Keys| Ignition Switch Repair| Key Duplication
• Same for the rest of the different car models on the site.

I previously asked a question on here about "What is Cannibalization", and after reading the answer, as well as a full article about it, I think I may be potentially cannibalizing my site with these title tags, though my SEO Moz has not indicated that I am.

Should my title tags be instead...

Acura car keys| Acura Ignition Switch Repair| Acura Key Duplication   for each vehicle page?

Additionally, all the Meta Descriptions on each vehicle page read the same as well.  Is this correct?

We duplicate Acura car keys, repair ignition switches, extract broken keys, replace remotes, reprogram transponder keys and provide emergency locksmith srvc.

Lastly, this is for a city, yet I have not placed the city modifier in my tags nor content.  Somehow it knows what city I'm in because some of my pages are ranking on Page 1, however other pages are ranking like #188, #257...So I'm just confused.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Jaye

Hey Miriam,

You are a rock star my dear.  I was thinking to myself, "how do I do this...there's so many towns"...But you're right....you break it off in manageable pieces - going after the the towns that mean the most, then working backwards.

My Elephant of town will be eaten - 10 bites at a time. 

So Thank you!

Thanks a log Saijo!  I was thinking about doing that, but dang, I didn't want to do that level of work.  We have about 40 different areas.  HA!

Thanks again.

Hi,

I couldn't find any reference to this, so if the answer is already here, I would appreciate a link to the answer.

That said, my question is this:  When a local business services a large geographic area, I wanted to know how to optimize for the multiple towns?  I already have the main city in my title tags, but there are at least 40 areas that surround this town.

Should I have a "Services Area" page, and place all the towns there, or should they all be in the footer?

I saw this one guy - in the same niche who put all the towns in his meta keyword section - but I think that's incorrect, especially since Google doesn't look at that particular meta tag.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

I couldn't find any reference to this, so if the answer is already here, I would appreciate a link to the answer.

That said, my question is this:  When a local business services a large geographic area, I wanted to know how to optimize for the multiple towns?  I already have the main city in my title tags, but there are at least 40 areas that surround this town.

Should I have a "Services Area" page, and place all the towns there, or should they all be in the footer?

I saw this one guy - in the same niche who put all the towns in his meta keyword section - but I think that's incorrect, especially since Google doesn't look at that particular meta tag.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks a log Saijo!  I was thinking about doing that, but dang, I didn't want to do that level of work.  We have about 40 different areas.  HA!

Thanks again.