If you run a business with more than one storefront, service area, or franchise location, you’ve probably tried the shortcut: duplicate your main service page, swap out the city name, and publish it forty times. It doesn’t work. Google’s systems are good at spotting near-identical pages across a site, and when that happens it typically picks one version to show and ignores the rest — or drops them from the index entirely.
This guide walks through what actually makes a location page rankable: how much genuinely unique content it needs, how to structure the URL and on-page elements, where structured data fits in, and the specific mistakes that quietly sink multi-location sites. It’s written for developers and marketers building these pages themselves, not for people buying a templated SEO package.
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