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How to Create an Overall National Site with Local Pages

by martster
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Let's say I want to create a national site for a niche. The plan would be to start local, working with various businesses, but to expand (but setting the site up for this).

So, could I have it say such and such usa.com, and then slash/california for the state, and then say "slash/losangeles" for local?

It seems the structure would work okay, but how would that work for local people using an address? They would not have a .com that was local, so what would be the solution? Just to create state or local sites and link them to a national page?

Please advise, thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    You could use state.sitename-usa.dom or use states as subdirectories as you mentioned.

    If there is any possibility of going international, even to just Canada and/or Mexico, you might want to consider a structure that plans for that.

    sitename.dom/usa/alabama
    sitename.dom/usa/alaska
    sitename.dom/canada/quebec

    And so on...
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      Oh, and if you want local domains, just register something like "alabamasite.dom" and redirect it to "sitename.dom/usa/alabama".
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      • Profile picture of the author martster
        Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

        Oh, and if you want local domains, just register something like "alabamasite.dom" and redirect it to "sitename.dom/usa/alabama".
        Hmmm. Unless I'm missing something or am failing to think of something, I think this is a "bingo" and you've hit the nail on the head!

        THANKS!
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