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Would I have to validate all xx thousands of subdomains in webmaster tools first?

There is a main site with the store locator that points to an individual franchise location, however nothing can be purchased from that site.

The franchise is very local oriented, that is why every site has a subdomain. Every Franchise can set their own pricing and product options.

Working on a large franchise network with thousands of subdomains. There is the primary corporate domain which basically directs traffic to store locators and then to individual locations.  The stores sell essentially the same products with some variations on pricing so lots of pages with the same product descriptions.

Different content

• All the subdomains have their location information address info in the header, footer and geo meta tags on every page.
• Page titles customized with franchise store id numbers.

Duplicate content

• Product description blocks.

Franchisee domains will likely have the ability to add their own content in the future but as of right now most of the content short of the blocks on the pages are duplicated.

Likely limitations -- Adding City to page titles will likely be problematic as there could be multiple franchises in the same city.

Ideally it would be nice if users could search for the store or product and have centers return that are closest to them.

We can turn on sitemaps on all the subdomains and try to submit them to the search engines. Looking for insight regarding submitting all these sites or just focusing on the main domain that has a lot less content on it.

There is a main site with the store locator that points to an individual franchise location, however nothing can be purchased from that site.

The franchise is very local oriented, that is why every site has a subdomain. Every Franchise can set their own pricing and product options.

Would I have to validate all xx thousands of subdomains in webmaster tools first?