Best practice for local keyword ranking in URLs
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Hi, I have a large artificial grass website with many franchise location landing pages. At the moment i have most of the landing page URLs like this www.domainname.com/uk/city/
My TLD does not contain the keyword "artificial grass" so should I follow the location with the keywords /city-artificial-grass/ or is Google pretty savvy these days and will it know that I am an artificial grass company?
I'm after the best recommendations for this if possible.
Thanks
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Hey Alex,
I want to be sure I'm understanding this fully. Some questions:
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Is artificial grass the main product your business sells?
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If that's right, are you saying that your domain name is something like Alexs.com instead of AlexsArificialGrass.com?
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And if that's right, are you asking if your landing pages should look like alexs.com/country/city/artificialgrass instead of just alexs.com/country/city? Or, something else?
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And, finally, I'm curious about the use of a country name in your URLs. Do you have offices in more than one nation?
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