adding CITY Computer Repair list to bottom of page

[Tech Savvy]

Right now I have a list of cities I cater to at the bottom of my website; however, I was thinking of changing that to CITY Computer Repair.

Will this benefit or hurt my SEO? What about mixing it up with CITY Computer Help CITY PC Repair CITY PC Help…etc?

my site is http://techsavvycomputerservices.com in case you want to see what I mean.

 

[Bryce W]

You'll potentially get penalized for keyword stuffing. You are better off creating a well optimized page for EACH city.

 

[Tech Savvy]

So I should do... A page optimized for let's say virus removal, another for network installation/troubleshooting, and mobile repairs and then those three pages optimized for each city. So all in all I'll have (number of cities x 3) pages total. Maybe four if I have a page with a generic list of all services as well (not optimized for a specific service) is this how it should do it? I chose those three services in particular because those are the most profitable for me.

 

[mrapoc]

I'm just doing the same thing. Experimenting with it so far (early days) but from what i've read its the way to do it.

Have a landing page for every town/city you want to target. Each one HAS to be unique.

http://freshpcs.co.uk/service-areas/ludlow

http://freshpcs.co.uk/service-areas/pontesbury

for example - I'm no expert but from what i have read over the last few weeks this would be the way to achieve it. I hope to have some proper results in a few weeks once the pages have been ranked accordingly.

Essentially have a H1 with the city/county and some other blurb.

Have an image with alt tags for that location

Talk about the location (prove locality and local landmarks)

Use reviews from that location

400 words ish about what you offer (keywords such as computer repair etc.) but do not keyword stuff. Again what i've read google wants organic and natural reading. This is the long game and may take time - but is supposedly more future proof than spamming

If anyone with more experience has any feedback lemme know...this is new to me too

 

[Tech Savvy]

Can I duplicate the page and just change the town name?

Thanks for all the info btw. This really helps.

 

[mrapoc]

No - from my reading every page has to be totally unique. In reality, yes I cloned each page and then went through rewriting everything. Have a look on moz for seo tips (google moz seo landing page)

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

That's pretty much what I do, except I stick in a few keywords into the filename. The full URL has been truncated, but it shows if you hover over it

http://www.cam-pc.co.uk/computer-repair-in-histon-impington-pc-services.html
http://www.cam-pc.co.uk/computer-repair-in-trumpington-grantchester-pc-services.html
http://www.cam-pc.co.uk/computer-repair-in-fulbourn-pc-services.html

And out of laziness, I do a page for a pair of villages, rather than one page for each.

 

[wignall6]

If you know PHP well you should just be able to create one page and then change the town name under a variable and generate different links for this. This process is better and is easier as you don't need to keep creating new files for each page also if you need to change something on that page it can be done in one file only.

for example: computer-services.php?town=manchester then you can create a rewrite rule to change that to computer-services-manchester and if you have a $_GET you can just turn that into variable and then on the page where the town name changes it will do it for you. I know this process worked a couple of months ago and did not affect the reputation of your website.

 

[mrapoc]

If you know PHP well you should just be able to create one page and then change the town name under a variable and generate different links for this. This process is better and is easier as you don't need to keep creating new files for each page also if you need to change something on that page it can be done in one file only.

for example: computer-services.php?town=manchester then you can create a rewrite rule to change that to computer-services-manchester and if you have a $_GET you can just turn that into variable and then on the page where the town name changes it will do it for you. I know this process worked a couple of months ago and did not affect the reputation of your website.

All I've read says that ANY duplicate content will hurt your rating massively.

 

[acitodg]

You'll potentially get penalized for keyword stuffing. You are better off creating a well optimized page for EACH city.

Agree with this. It might be ok to do this a few times on your site, but you need to be really careful about too much keyword stuffing and also about creating duplicate content.

 

[goldmercury]

I'm no expert but if you've heard of Google Panda - and want to meet him (he's the one on top) then do as CAM-PC & Wignal suggest.

I will argue (sorry guys) a better answer is to implement micro formatting on your contact page with NAP and list your locations there.

Use this tool or something similar http://www.microdatagenerator.com/local-business-schema/

It basically tells Google your location for it's pigeon algo.​

 

[callthatgirl]

All I've read says that ANY duplicate content will hurt your rating massively.

I disagree respectively, I have posted 30 blogs before with the same content, but different title (same words, different city and state) H1 and supporting tags and I'm doing just great. Just put out 20 more the other day and got a call from San Diego 2 days after publishing. The client even said, "you just published that blog"

Here are some examples: (google if you want)
Outlook Expert Burbank California
Office 365 Expert Burbank California

I have over 50 cities and states using this method now, nationally and I'm not getting punished by Google at all. Calls are coming in daily. Loving it.

I always say, if you are in a small town, your rankings should be higher faster, larger towns will be a bit more work with blogging and tagging.

Edited to add, I don't have city and state on my website anywhere but in the blogs.