Lance Sampson

Stiofan,

I added this to the code snippets plugin but it does not seem to be translating.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hi

I misread what you were saying. I thought you were talking about the “places detail pages” versus the “places” index compared the main index being returned. I totally agree with that.

The homepages I listed was the main page of the URLs in the image from the search results (that I forgot to add, but then attached). If you visit those, you will see what I mean.

Thanks for the feedback and clarification.

Best Regards

Hi Paolo,

Its been my experience that search for keyword with city, state or zip will always return the index page due to keyword density. It most cases the details page never gets even close.

Go to google for the US and type in “dallas self storage”. You will notice that every and all listings on the first page are index pages.

publicstorage.com
sparefoot.com
selfstorage.com
findstoragefast.com
extraspace.com
usselfstorage.com
cubesmart.com

If you could ever have the option to sort by “feature, then state, then city and then zip” its would cause it to rank even better.

I wanna thank you very much for getting back to me and having the city sort added. I believe it will be a great benefit.

As always, keep up the good work!

Best Regards

Hi Stiofan,

I am not sure I explained that right. Let me explain it in a different way.

http://www.website/united-states/
http://www.website/united-states/states/
http://www.website/united-states/states/city/

The listings in the “united states” will not be sorted by state. In the “states” it will not be sorted by the city. In the “city” it will not be sorted by “zip”.

So when you browse the physical URL it does not group them together to make use of the map. It just shows the entire US map because they are random or sorted by title. I am not really concerned too much about that as I am the SEO organic search engine effect. Thats because visitors use the homepage search bar for “city” or “zip” so it already groups listings together for the visitors use.

Since there is pagination (lets say 20) then each page is grouped with 20 listings.

The search engines will index these pages and rank based on keyword density. (which is keyword, state, city and zip). If they are random, the keyword density will be random also. So they will not rank for the “state, city or zip” keywords.

This concepts is the same for the location pages.

Being able to sort by “city” is the most important if there can not be a primary and secondary sort. The best senario would be a sort by “featured, state, city, zip”. If thats not possible then just “city” would be the next best thing.

This is from the standpoint of SEO organic search engine indexing. My actual visitors see what they want by using the search bar.

Does this make more sense?

Stiofan

Thank you so much. That is going to be a great benefit to my SEO.

Keep up the good work!

Best Regards

Hi Stiofan

I updated the code but its still does not work.