Thank you for your article. I am just getting into local search services for small businesses in my area (Western Maryland) and no where have I ever see information about how to list for one company in several locations.

As long as you don't abuse this method it looks like it could be very effective. I remember reading in one case study for the “Google 10-box” about a lock smith company that locked up listings in a large number of cities across the country. It may well have been similar to the example you have shown.

Thanks again, you have been very helpful.

Allen

Thank you for your article. I am just getting into local search services for small businesses in my area (Western Maryland) and no where have I ever see information about how to list for one company in several locations.

As long as you don't abuse this method it looks like it could be very effective. I remember reading in one case study for the “Google 10-box” about a lock smith company that locked up listings in a large number of cities across the country. It may well have been similar to the example you have shown.

Thanks again, you have been very helpful.

Allen

Our company is based in Missouri, but in fact I just talked to a guy in Arkansas and we may be working with him to build local traffic to his site. So even though they aren’t local to us we will use the techniques discussed in this post to help him locally.

the most important thing is the domain name and that’s about it.
the anchor you get, or the first link to Google is not a real factor or worth in any way the chance that Google might punish you.

people are very accustomed to have everything linked, for no good reason.
if you simply send the websites to other search engine and Google included, by some service that is designed just for that, you get both the link and the orientation that serves as “half” anchor.

anybody has some light to shed in regards to that?

because we do fairly good in the biggest cities (new york, la…) without linking from anywhere and being way less exposed.

Seems as though their SEO strategy caught up to them, at least with Google… but if all their microsites still do well, then they are still generating leads…