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Help Targeting Multiple City Keywords On One Page

by JustinG30
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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
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  • Profile picture of the author thatkeywordguy
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author JustinG30
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author cheapstuff
    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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  • Profile picture of the author JustinG30
    Great advice. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author komplex
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    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author JustinG30
    Thanks for all the advice
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  • Profile picture of the author strategic seo services
    Off page SEO tip: Build dofollow backlinks with the targeted cities as your anchor text.
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  • Profile picture of the author JustinG30
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    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.


    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
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  • Profile picture of the author JustinG30
    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.
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