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I am building a website with the category "water damage repair" and in the menu of the website I want a drop-down menu that contains the keyword + geolocation for example "water damage detroit" "water damage chicago" "water damage New York" and they will all be drop downs so that I can have the exact match keywords in the menu and on the page but I want them all to link to the same page so that I don't have to build out 5 different pages that all have the same general information on them, I would rather just have the categories with the keyword rich words then them all point to the same area.
Is this a good idea to have a drop down menu for a category "Water Damage Repair" and then have 5 different Exact match keywords like "water damage detroit" and then have all of those exact match keywords link to the same page or should they all have individual content for each exact patch keyword even though they are all the same topic?
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It cut off my answer so I'll add it here:
This is what I would say. Don't create these pages. I assume you have locations in each city, instead develop resources for each city including location details, and other information specific to them. If you don't have resources for them per city, you shouldn't be going per city. Do things for the users, not for ranking. But above all else, don't create these pages. Have a water damage page if you must and if the information changes per city, or you have locations, then create those resource pages. But if those locations do more than water damage repair, don't build one for each. Just give information about that location, what they offer and any other information people might want in that area. Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the input, the main question I have is if I have a menu that says "Water Damage Repair" is it good to have a drop down menu to say "Water Damage Repair Detroit"
or should the drop down just be "detroit"
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_Hold the fort for a while. I am not concerned about the menu or the way you are going to feature the links. What concerns me is that you are going to make your website very much vulnerable to Panda updates. By creating pages that are solely built for ranking high in some Location specific pages, you can make your website very much susceptible to algo updates. Build a website for users and not for search engines. This is what I would like to suggest you. However, if you still want to create location specific pages to rank high in location specific keywords, you need to make sure that you are not adding run of the mill content. Focus on what kind of exciting things you are going to offer to people of that location. _
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First things first: Matthew Stafford, you are my starting fantasy football quarterback and in two weeks we are in the playoffs. Please be awesome
To address your question: I personally try to avoid optimizing any one page for too many keywords. It's one of those situations where if you decide to optimize one page for everything you end up really, truly optimizing that one page for nothing.
If you have five different locations that you want to optimize for, I'd create a page for each of them and vary the content enough so that you don't have duplicate content from page to page to page.
Good luck!
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