Ranking for similar local keywords
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Hello All,
It's my first day using a Moz Pro account and it all seems really good so far!
Our business has 26 stores throughout the UK so I created a store locator page that has a page for each store. Inside here, I've created unique content for the same products for each store and it's really working wonders. The problem here though is one of my locations (Rotherham) contains two stores - so I feel that they'll both be fighting for the position all of the time. Would a canonical tag be suitable for this? I do need both pages to appear in Google's map results but as for organic rankings of keywords - it shouldn't matter too much if just one page appears.
Thanks!
Liam
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Thanks Andy! Agreed - Google shouldn't drop the map listing, but instead merge the organic listings into one I suppose. I'll give it a shot!
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Would a canonical tag be suitable for this?
Hi Liam,
Yes, you would use a canonical tag here to prevent the pages from competing with each other. This wont (shouldn't!) prevent them both appearing in the Google map results.
I hope this helps
-Andy
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