Tips to optimize store locators for local search

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Tips to optimize store locators for local search:

    * There must be links which search engines can follow into all the store location pages. You'll need to provide a web page for every city with your stores, and you may have to generate a small hierarchy of pages to link out to pages for all locations, depending upon how many total locations you have. The search engines recommend that you have fewer than a hundred links on a single page, and you may need to display even fewer than that for the sake of good usability. If you have many locations, you might link first to all the states or provinces in your country on your store locator search page. On each state's or province's page, provide a list of all the cities where you have locations. Within each city's page, list all the locations where you have stores. Some companies even provide a helpful image map of the country, allowing users to click on the map to get a list of locations for each area or city—best to provide a separate plain text linked navigation system in addition to an image map, though...

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