Multiple business location - a nightmare scenario

[Syed_Ozair]

Hi Guys,

I was wondering how should i tackle the url structure for the following scenario:

Company provides several hypnotherapy services including 'stop smoking', 'cbt', 'weight loss' and more ... and have offices in 3 cities.

Currently, the website has the following structure.

www.website.com/stop-smoking-city1
www.website.com/stop-smoking-city2
www.website.com/stop-smoking-city3

and so on ...

would it be better to have the following url structure ...

www.website.com/city1/stop-smoking
www.website.com/city1/weight-loss
www.website.com/city1/cbt

and so on ...

Please advise!

[sparkeeey]

I'm tempted to say in order to optimize local search results I'd go with:

• www.website.com/city1/stop-smoking

• www.website.com/city1/weight-loss

etc..

[MattAntonino]

I agree with Mark and your question above.

website.com/city1/stop-smoking
website.com/city1/weight-loss
website.com/city1/cbt

website.com/city2/stop-smoking
website.com/city2/weight-loss
website.com/city2/cbt

website.com/city3/stop-smoking
website.com/city3/weight-loss
website.com/city3/cbt

This site architecture essentially tells Google "this is our brand. we have 3 cities. These are the services in each city."

The way you're currently doing it says "this is our brand. we have this service in this city."  It's not as clean or organised.

[Syed_Ozair]

Thanks Mark and Matt,

Does that mean that we will have to write the services page specifically for each city multiple times? So as to say ... stop smoking article for 4 different cities ...

Another approach i was thinking of was to have page on stop smoking have links on that page where these services can be bought ... so on the right panel, we can say that these services are available in the following cities.