Sorting by City, State or Zip

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?

Hi Stiofan,

I am not sure your understanding what I am trying to say. I am referring to the indexing by the search engines and organic keyword rating and search position.

If you to go http://www.site.com/places/ its shows every listing in the database. All states. This is where sorting by the state makes a difference. This is the same for cities within the state.

In the SEO community, its well known that to rank well within the state, city and state keywords, that you must be default sorted by these to group them together (for search engine indexing and ranking) not for (actual visitor presentation).

I am not sure about the rest of the world, but in the United States, most if not all directories and or store locators have the ability to sort by city, state or zip. Or a combination of them.

Is there an way to sort by just the “city”? This would work for me.

Best Regards,