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How Can I Rank This Idea

by exiledhf
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I recently came up with a very unique idea involving a service that is commonly offered around the world. The service is a two word keyword with a ton of search results, but I would be trying to rank this service for certain cities probably using a subdomain like this:

city.mysitename.com



Lets say this service is about basketball training. How could I rank the main website for the main keyword of "basketball training" but at the same time rank the subdomain for basketball training in Cleveland. Is this possible / how should I begin doing this?
#idea #rank
  • Profile picture of the author PBMax
    If using basketball training as your site, then that's your keyword (and variations thereof) for the main site.

    City sites would be: "basketball training in Tampa", "Tampa basketball training", etc etc etc

    Do it. Why not?
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  • Profile picture of the author TotalWebsiteControl
    when your doing off page seo use the subdomain as the link and anchor text basketball training in tamp.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by exiledhf View Post

    I recently came up with a very unique idea involving a service that is commonly offered around the world.
    And do you offer such a service? Are you an expert on the service?

    If not, why clutter the internet up with more junk?

    You rank for basketball training in cleveland if you actually are a
    basketball trainer in cleveland. If not, you are just creating garbage.

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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Originally Posted by exiledhf View Post

    I recently came up with a very unique idea involving a service that is commonly offered around the world.
    Just a piece of generic business advice. Try to put this idea in front of some business people you trust, or try to do a solid market research by some other means. I've seen several "very unique" ideas that either weren't actually unique from customer's point of view, were replaced by common technology in less than 6 months, or weren't really marketable in any way that would make sense.

    Yes, you can certainly try to target different cities across US or even globally. If you want to go outside US consider country TLDs.
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    What's your excuse?
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    • Profile picture of the author danparks
      Read both of the nettiapina replies ... they make a lot of sense
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    If you are targeting different regions, I wouldn't use sub-domains. I'd use a structure like

    example.com/city1
    example.com/city2

    or

    example.com/region/city1
    example.com/region/city2
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    • Profile picture of the author exiledhf
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      If you are targeting different regions, I wouldn't use sub-domains. I'd use a structure like

      example.com/city1
      example.com/city2

      or

      example.com/region/city1
      example.com/region/city2
      Is there a specific reason for this? And for the people talking about the idea, it's a unique idea and it's not me offering a service. It's a site built around an already existing and upcoming market. I don't want to go much in detail, but it has nothing to do with basketball training.
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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by exiledhf View Post

        Is there a specific reason for this?
        Subdomain is a completely separate site. With /city1/ structure you'd have everything under the same site. I'd look at other requirements of the site/product/project, and choose accordingly.

        Of course it's possible to build the navigation around both alternatives.
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        Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
        Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

        What's your excuse?
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