If I were to change the geographic keyword such as "foreclosures in Dallas" on 20 related blogs to "foreclosures in Los Angeles" what would happen?

[whorneff310]

In other words I'm wondering if someone built up an internet presence for their company through multiple websites over the years and then decided to move to another part of the united states, would it work to change all the keywords to the new location?

Would that work toward getting them ranked in the new area or would you have to create entirely new websites?

Thanks guys.

[DanSpeicher]

I think that would work from a content-optimization standpoint. The issues would be external: anchor text, local links, etc.

[whorneff310]

Thats what I thought. I thought that the pages would then start to climb in the rankings for that geographic area, but someone told me that it wouldn't work because google would have alrleady indexed all those pages?

[DanSpeicher]

No, from my understanding, Google continually indexes your pages. Rand updates his Search Engine Ranking Factors and he puts the new information at the same URL:

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors