Comments on: Micro-geographic Targeting: Usability and SEO Concerns http://www.getelastic.com/micro-geographic-targeting-usability-and-seo-concerns/ #1 Subscribed Ecommerce Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: cristinohttp://www.getelastic.com/micro-geographic-targeting-usability-and-seo-concerns/comment-page-1/#comment-19519 cristino Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:01:31 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/?p=5310#comment-19519 Thanks for this useful information and good to know this SEO Tools and Resources, I also do online marketing through fullservicead to promote my site and i find your blog very helpful. I really admire your post. Thanks for this useful information and good to know this SEO Tools and Resources, I also do online marketing through fullservicead to promote my site and i find your blog very helpful. I really admire your post.

]]> By: Terryhttp://www.getelastic.com/micro-geographic-targeting-usability-and-seo-concerns/comment-page-1/#comment-19517 Terry Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:41:25 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/?p=5310#comment-19517 Another top notch article. However there are a few more options than those described from an SEO standpoint: 1. You kind of hinted at this, but didn't explicitly state that you can use the "rel=canonical" tag to make sure Google is aware of the original page. 2. I like T-Mobiles approach, seen here: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=BlackBerry-Curve-8900 - I searched Google for "blackberry 8900" and got this. After you click "buy"it redirects and requires geographic information. This approach would work well for product oriented sites. 3. For a service oriented site this is focusing on queries such as 'service + location" - for which it gets a bit trickier. However, big brands generally have sufficient trust and authority to leverage in order to achieve good rankings for these for the major metropolitan areas they service. With a nice declaration of geographic service area on the site and citations and congruent information from Google's major data providers there shouldn't be much of an issue here. Another top notch article. However there are a few more options than those described from an SEO standpoint:

1. You kind of hinted at this, but didn’t explicitly state that you can use the “rel=canonical” tag to make sure Google is aware of the original page.

2. I like T-Mobiles approach, seen here: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=BlackBerry-Curve-8900 – I searched Google for “blackberry 8900″ and got this. After you click “buy”it redirects and requires geographic information. This approach would work well for product oriented sites.

3. For a service oriented site this is focusing on queries such as ‘service + location” – for which it gets a bit trickier. However, big brands generally have sufficient trust and authority to leverage in order to achieve good rankings for these for the major metropolitan areas they service. With a nice declaration of geographic service area on the site and citations and congruent information from Google’s major data providers there shouldn’t be much of an issue here.

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