@MarkBlakefield more spam

@AaronHenry This works. i had numerous redirect hops on wpengine. i followed these industructions and my issue went away. Make sure you clear cache when you do this (on the site and wpengine cache)... also make sure you dont have any redirects on the domain or cloud flare dns file level. Remove any redriects of the primary and set www. as the primary.

All this spam. You guys are pathetic.

Question is how does one target two locations in the same city with the same keyword/service, and then the home page as well.

I have GMB links to my location pages for a south and central location in one large metro city. The home page is having the same keyword.

What would you do in this instance?

For now i removed all instances of keywords located on the location pages. The home page has a totally different topic now.

I did see my rankings jump up a page and we got into the top 5 on gmaps for tons of terms. I am just trying to see if there are any options im missing on best way to setup multiple locations targeting the same city without wasting the home page SEO juice.  Because right now my home page is not ranking for any major terms at all.

Thanks for the responses but the keywords are fictional and jsut an example of my predicament. The business has been around for 27+ years and in google for  about ten. our backlink profile , citations and etc are all very competitive. Clean and concise citations and links.

I will re read what you said. But it sounds like we are on the same page and I do not expect rank well jsut because on page is perfect. What I’m trying to figure out is the best plan for long term success targetfing these highly Competitive terms.

Content is also exceptional and very informational and helpful.

I’m going To review competition again and make spreadsheet of their layout.

I will kepe this updated so that maybe I can help others in the future

Look at how starbucks does theirs in the states. Make it a locatoin info page. Pictures, address, contact info, ratings, reviews, descriton of the area (historical, new, corporate) and anything else like menus, services , valet, and etc.

you will be better off doing it at the domain registrar "manage dns" section. if thats not avialable than just set it up under cloud flare to go directly to https for all versions. make sure you update all your urls in your wordpress install.

I have a local seo campaign im trying to reconfigure.

Lets say i am a dwi lawyer and i have multiple locations. These are merely examples for cities and keywords.

• Home page is Criminal defense lawyer - this is the term we should be targeting. Maybe i can target the state name, but i am losing so much SEO weight by not leveraging this home page as the main page for this term.
• Then we have a location page in south Boston  that is "S Boston DWI lawyer" as the title tag.
• Then we have another location page north Boston that is "N Boston DWI Lawyer" as the title tag.

I can leave the city name off the home page title tag,  but then what do i do with these pages that are pretty much competing with one another? I know the home page will not rank since none of the locations point to it, and only to a location page.

I was thinking about creating one page with both locations and having both G map listings go directly there, but that doesn't make sense because other locations do not have the same setup. Or choosing the most central location and pointing that to the home page and let the rest have a locations page.

Finally the home page will not rank well for any major  terms. The location page does rank for the fictional south Boston DWI lawyer, but the other listing does not show up. The home page does not show up in the first ten pages either.  One other aspect is that the home page ranks for terms that I am not even targeting.

These pages are all targeted on specific keywords so that they do not overlap or compete, but some pages are the services main outline, but the location pages have their own version.

I have removed all mentions of the same keyword from the home page.  I made a few wchanges about 2 weeks ago and already noticed movement in rankings days later.

delete me this is a duplicate

Oh someone has to have something for me......im freaking out here.

Dont spam your nav bar with keywords. Use about us, contact us and home as your nav links because users are used to seeing them. To add descriptive tags to your links use the title attribute on your href links

About Us

services

You need to find a new approach in discussing website usability for the user + search engines. Set realistic expectations (as stated above) and do the best you can. I would continue impressing the need for a better website design which includes more content and functionality. Give them some examples. Pull some competitor data, show them other sites. If these are publicly held companies you might be able to find some great information or press releases on how companies are fairing with internet marketing.

Regardless, you can get that website to rank well for specific keywords by building more high quality links than the competition. Ive seen it work numerous times. Without allot of content you simply are not going to be able to target long tail keywords or less competitive keywords.

You can also build a blog for them and drive traffic there.

I think I disagree as moving site A's hosting to a new ip causes a drop in rankings.

Never heard about this before. I think this is not true, i have chagned IP's in the past without any consequences.