Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page

JustinG30 · 01-30-2012, 08:00 PM

Hoping someone has some advice to help me out. Here is my scenario. I have a website where my main url is a county in a state. My pages are 5 different businesses but all related. What im trying to do, is target all the cities in the county (approx 40) as keywords for each page. Im using the All In One SEO but can i put 40 keywords in the keyword box per page? Is their any other ways to target these cities as keywords on each page?

Thanks

thatkeywordguy · 01-30-2012, 08:34 PM

Matt Cutts said Google basically pays no attention to the keywords meta tag.

Typically, with city targeting, website owners put a list of cities in the page.

e.g. We service the following cities:

* Irvine
* Diego Ville
* Sunny Place

etc...

Sometimes they'll make a page for each city. But that is kind of redundant.

Sometimes a tag for each city is used.

JustinG30 · 01-30-2012, 09:23 PM

Thanks for the info. When you say create a tag for each city what do you mean exactly by doing that? All i did now was make a list like city1, city2, city3, etc and put it at the bottom of each page.

cheapstuff · 01-30-2012, 09:45 PM

I would create content that talks about the different cities in it but not all the cities at once, focus on like 5-10 at a time. Write around 500 words about whatever and post one on pages like hubpages, squidoo and possibly a blog from another IP.

Create links throughout those posts to your page.

Once the sites get indexed, I wait a week just to be safe... repost the articles on ezinearticles. Thats all you would need to do really. If you wanted some solid SEO.

JustinG30 · 01-30-2012, 11:57 PM

Great advice. Thanks!

komplex · 01-31-2012, 01:23 AM

We do this, put the city keywords in content, all over the site. Put them in the title, etc. Like (cities) Perfume Shop | Frantport, Googleson, Allisville, Brownot Perfumes Store | Scents and Smells That's a bad example, but you get the idea.

JustinG30 · 01-31-2012, 03:28 PM

Thanks for all the advice

strategic seo services · 01-31-2012, 03:32 PM

Off page SEO tip: Build dofollow backlinks with the targeted cities as your anchor text.

JustinG30 · 02-07-2012, 03:32 PM

Anybody else have any other ideas on how to target cities in a county at once? Here is my goal. If i have a site that is like County+Service. Now say the county has 40 cities. I want to be able to rank if someone searches for a city within the county + the service. So any other tips on what to do to help rank for stuff like this?

Thanks

yukon · 02-07-2012, 05:21 PM

I would include all zip codes for that entire county, on-page SEO & possibly as keyword anchor-text external backlinks pointing at the appropriate pages on your site..

If you copy & paste any of the zip codes & search on Google, Google knows the exact location of that zip code, so it helps to associate your pages with that exact geo location, for instance on Google Maps (44301).

Example, all the zip codes below are from Summit county Ohio. All of the zip codes below will return Near Akron, Ohio on Google maps, because Google knows those zip codes are in that county/city.

Quote:

44301
44302
44303
44304
44305
44306
44307
44308
44309
44310
44311
44312
44313
44314
44315
44316
44317
44319
44320
44321
44325
44326
44328
44333
44334
44372
44396
44398

JustinG30 · 02-12-2012, 05:27 PM

Thanks for all the advice so far. Im still having some difficulty and want to make sure i have done this right. Im targeting 42 cities exactly on my site. So what i should do is make a list on the pages at the following basically just saying we service: and list them.

Then since their is 42 cities, should i just write articles on the top 20 or so in population and submit those to ezinearticles? Now will i have a problem if i just write one article and then just change the name of the city in each article or does each article for the most part need to be 100% unique?

Also does anyone have any advice on how to beat Google places with this? I want it if someone searches say Phoenix Mexican Restaurant my site comes up even though i dont technically have a google places listing.

01-30-2012, 08:00 PM	#1
JustinG30 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 162 Thanks: 8 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page Hoping someone has some advice to help me out. Here is my scenario. I have a website where my main url is a county in a state. My pages are 5 different businesses but all related. What im trying to do, is target all the cities in the county (approx 40) as keywords for each page. Im using the All In One SEO but can i put 40 keywords in the keyword box per page? Is their any other ways to target these cities as keywords on each page? Thanks

01-30-2012, 08:34 PM	#2
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01-30-2012, 09:23 PM	#3
JustinG30 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 162 Thanks: 8 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page Thanks for the info. When you say create a tag for each city what do you mean exactly by doing that? All i did now was make a list like city1, city2, city3, etc and put it at the bottom of each page.

01-30-2012, 09:45 PM	#4
cheapstuff Active Warrior Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 96 Thanks: 6 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Social Networking	Re: Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page I would create content that talks about the different cities in it but not all the cities at once, focus on like 5-10 at a time. Write around 500 words about whatever and post one on pages like hubpages, squidoo and possibly a blog from another IP. Create links throughout those posts to your page. Once the sites get indexed, I wait a week just to be safe... repost the articles on ezinearticles. Thats all you would need to do really. If you wanted some solid SEO.
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01-30-2012, 11:57 PM	#5
JustinG30 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 162 Thanks: 8 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page Great advice. Thanks!

01-31-2012, 01:23 AM	#6
komplex komplex Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: California, USA Posts: 137 Thanks: 97 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page We do this, put the city keywords in content, all over the site. Put them in the title, etc. Like (cities) Perfume Shop \| Frantport, Googleson, Allisville, Brownot Perfumes Store \| Scents and Smells That's a bad example, but you get the idea.

01-31-2012, 03:28 PM	#7
JustinG30 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 162 Thanks: 8 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page Thanks for all the advice

01-31-2012, 03:32 PM	#8
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02-07-2012, 03:32 PM	#9
JustinG30 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 162 Thanks: 8 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page Anybody else have any other ideas on how to target cities in a county at once? Here is my goal. If i have a site that is like County+Service. Now say the county has 40 cities. I want to be able to rank if someone searches for a city within the county + the service. So any other tips on what to do to help rank for stuff like this? Thanks

02-12-2012, 05:27 PM	#11
JustinG30 HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 162 Thanks: 8 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page Thanks for all the advice so far. Im still having some difficulty and want to make sure i have done this right. Im targeting 42 cities exactly on my site. So what i should do is make a list on the pages at the following basically just saying we service: and list them. Then since their is 42 cities, should i just write articles on the top 20 or so in population and submit those to ezinearticles? Now will i have a problem if i just write one article and then just change the name of the city in each article or does each article for the most part need to be 100% unique? Also does anyone have any advice on how to beat Google places with this? I want it if someone searches say Phoenix Mexican Restaurant my site comes up even though i dont technically have a google places listing.