different page for each location?
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Do I need to publish a complete page dedicated only to one location with keywords?. For example. As a roofing contractor. Do I need to create a page on my site that is ‘Roofing contractors in Raleigh’ and another for Charlotte, and another for Greensboro ect ect.? Is this type of page called a ‘Landing page’?
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Hi there,
I don’t think that’s necessary – Google and other search engines are smart, and able to pick up on multiple locations like that. But it likely also wouldn’t hurt to have separate pages for each location, especially if you have different contact information for each location.
Is this type of page called a ‘Landing page’?
Yes and no. Landing pages have more to do with active advertising, so you run a Facebook ad, or you buy a specific set of keywords in Google Adwords, and you set it up so that if someone clicks on that ad, they’re taken to a specific page on your site, usually including a specific offer, and with additional analytics to track how many people land on the page and where they go from there, and then that page have options to take them to the rest of your site. These pages are often also at their own domain or subdomain, to make them separate from your actual site to a certain degree. Such a page would be a landing page.
What you’re describing here would be mimicking parts of what a landing page typically does, but it wouldn’t be one in the true sense of the word.
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So lets go on the idea that I do create a page for each location. I do not have to list the page on my site in the menu, right? I can make the page for the location and use keywords and content, after publishing, google will still index and rank that page even though there is not a link to the page in the menu of my site? Also, My google search console SEO analytics says my pages have too many <title tags>, I can’t figure out how to Change or remove one of the <title tags>. Any advice?
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I do not have to list the page on my site in the menu, right?
Correct, you can customize the menu so that only desired pages appear there: https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
google will still index and rank that page even though there is not a link to the page in the menu of my site?
Correct, and you can track that by verifying your site in their search console: https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/#google-search-console
I can’t figure out how to Change or remove one of the <title tags>
Would you please give us a link to one of two of the pages reported like that?
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That is a link to a Location page attached to the main site. Not included in the menu. I have entered both that URL and the URL for “asphalt shingle roofs” into google search console. They both have the same urgent SEO problem. Too many <title tags> in the source.
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Hm, yes there are roughly 21
titletags on that page.I have asked our developers to take a look into this.
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I am not an experienced web developer, so it very well may be errors on my part. Will you give me an update when you find something out?
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They aren’t errors on your part, that’s for sure. :)
This is something our developers will need to investigate and fix.
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I have good news. :)
The extra
<title>tags belong to the SVG icon elements in your theme, and that’s a fair practice as it allows for proper accessibility: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/titleYou can safely add this to what (in my experience) will be an ever-growing list of a Google checker tool not understanding context.
Should pages have more than one
<title>tag? No, and your page does have only one<title>tag for itself. Should SVG elements each have their own<title>tag? Yes, and that’s where we are here, so there’s nothing to worry about. :) -
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