Is it possible to rank for street name searches?
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I am working with a real estate agency who serves a very small geographical area in Dallas, TX. Many areas with Dallas addresses have proper names (e.g. Uptown, Highland Park, Lake Highlands, etc.), but the area my client wants to target is nameless, so we had the idea of trying to target searches for particular street names instead (e.g. homes for sale on easy street). I have looked around quite a bit, but have not found a website that takes that approach. Any thoughts on whether it's possible?
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Oh, that's very kind of you to say, Chad. It's always my pleasure! Seems like you've got some great opportunities ahead for some interesting content dev.
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Thomas, that was HUGE! Thank you, sir!
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Miriam,
You have been a tremendous help to me in the past, so thank you for replying to this question. In fact, I posted this hoping to get your input.
(1) That's right on the street names being baked into the listings themselves. I know it's helpful to have pages for cities, areas, and neighborhoods, but I have never (until now) considered building pages to target particular streets. It makes sense to me, but I had not found a precedent for it until Thomas' post above (thanks, Thomas!).
(2) I have seen the reports of dramatically increased "near me" searches, so thanks for the tips on optimizing for that.
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Hey Chad!
Interesting topic. Two thoughts on this:
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I'm assuming that the optimization for the street names is already baked into your client's real estate listings. As in 3 BD/2BR Home at 123 Turtle Creek Drive. Right? It certainly makes sense to me that you would optimize the home listing pages with their street as well as their city.
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I'd give some thought to 'near me' searches as well (as in 'homes for sale near me') which Google stated doubled in 2015. This phenomenon is largely tied to local pack results, but, of course, it's forbidden to build Google My Business listings for 'for sale' properties. Nevertheless, there could possibly be some organic opportunity to begin competing for near me phrases for the small area your client serves. Content development + optimization + link earning would be key here.
Hope this helps!
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Yeah it's possible, for example this: http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/property/kirkdale/daisy-street/
(nowhere near me, just thought to search what may be a street name!)
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