Prime85,

All of the previous recommendations are correct and great resources to investigate, however, the real question isn't for a list of directories. The question and my best answer for you are, not ALL directories are appropriate for ALL businesses. Martindale.com is an awesome "directory" to get listed in as a law firm, big or small, although it would not be relevant for a local dentist to be listed as Google wouldn't see the relevance. Find directories which have broken out categories to fit your business/industry/niche... then submit your listing. Use tools to look at the directory site as well to check for PageRank, DA, PA, and if it looks spammy, it may just be spammy and not worth it as a quality profile for a link.

Hope this was a good answer to push you in the direction for finding relevant directories, all local directories, and use tools to look at the site from a search engine perspective to help your link building efforts.

Cheers,
Patrick

Thanks, Daniel! We have several clients who are regional based as well with 4 locations to sell/rent equipment or dentists with 2 or 3 offices around a city like Cleveland/Akron/Canton OH, etc. I appreciate you sharing your direct experience in how you handle it and love the idea of a drop down menu!

Wonderful explanations for us to consider and work with. We assumed the domain.com/city approach would be best to get everything tagged, content relevant to the market, and links built to those inner pages. Thank you!!

Thanks, Francisco. I could've elaborated a bit more, you're right. We have several clients and prospective clients with multiple locations and most sell the same services/products across each location. However, some, take for example, a General Dentist we work with has 2 offices in different cities, one office does General and Cosmetic Dentistry while the other  does General Dentistry and Oral Surgery. So a little different in what we'd need to target. We always do Google+ verifications as well, so that's not an issue. However, your other points are pretty valid and we have them marked down to implement. Thank you again for your feedback!

Great feedback about the sub-domains and microsites as yes, it would be a lot of work for the build outs and the new content. I appreciate the input!

Hey everyone! What methods are best to use for SEO campaigns working with 1 website for a company which has 2, 3, 4, or more locations in order to get keywords for their services to rank well... in all their location cities?

I feel we know the answer could be any one of the below notes, however, it's always nice to learn more about what all you other SEO's are doing or have done which saw success.

Please note:

We have heard about building microsites on sub-domains example city.domainname.com/keyword-or-service
We have heard about building sections off the root domain such as domainname.com/city/keyword-or-service
We have heard about just pushing more content to the blog which can target a wider range of keywords and cities
We have heard about building a new site for each city location replicating the main website and swapping out content for 100% originality
We have heard about just building more and more backlinks with different anchor text using the cities in the anchor text

Thanks in advance and look forward to hearing from some other experts facing these same challenges!