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On Page Seo Website Structure

by boxnumber0004
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Hey,
I'm starting an offline service in my town and i am planning to expand to other cities surrounding my area.

Should i buy for each city a domain containing the local city and the service kw or should i use that format: domain.com/state/city

For seo it will be easier to rank with the first structure and building a network of websites connected to each other,each with a map listings/citations.

the second structure however look more legit,less spammy,but will be alot harder to rank for.

what's your thoughts?
#page #seo #structure #website
  • Profile picture of the author thatkeywordguy
    would depend on the service

    i always prefer one site though
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  • Profile picture of the author Softlayone
    Best way would be to have everything in one domain with this structure:

    state/domain.com/city

    This would be best way to transfer link juice through your site
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    • Profile picture of the author CombatMode
      Originally Posted by Softlayone View Post

      Best way would be to have everything in one domain with this structure:

      state/domain.com/city

      This would be best way to transfer link juice through your site
      Agreed, having one website can save you tremendous amount of time spent on seo and promotion.
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  • Profile picture of the author boxnumber0004
    state/domain.com/city

    you mean domain.com/state/city ?
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  • Profile picture of the author owendan79
    exactly you should do it on one domain.
    like domain.com/state/city is perfect to describe it.
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  • Profile picture of the author sax.sunny
    What he actually means is creating Sub-Domains.

    As this - states.domain.com/city

    Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author boxnumber0004
    So which one is better? subdomain or slashes?
    state.domain.com/city OR
    domain.com/state/city
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  • Profile picture of the author AnnaSEO
    If you do it on one domain,it will be like developing a brand name And much useful in the long run.
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  • Profile picture of the author Softlayone
    boxnumber0004 sorry for wrong info. Best would be like sax.sunny said > states.domain.com/city (with subdomain (dot before slash))
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  • Profile picture of the author TBInternetMarketing
    Originally Posted by boxnumber0004 View Post

    Hey,
    I'm starting an offline service in my town and i am planning to expand to other cities surrounding my area.

    Should i buy for each city a domain containing the local city and the service kw or should i use that format: domain.com/state/city

    For seo it will be easier to rank with the first structure and building a network of websites connected to each other,each with a map listings/citations.

    the second structure however look more legit,less spammy,but will be alot harder to rank for.

    what's your thoughts?
    It depends how many sites you are talking about here?
    If it's just a few, maybe go for seperate domains, but if its 50 odd, then I'd just build a different page for each one.
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