Optimizing by location, product or service and enumerated lists

[newreality]

The focus of my business is to align site users with requests with products and services found in their particular geographic location. ie by state.
geo-tagging (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=636&highlight=geographic) However this isn't about blogs.

I am debating whether to use a page of hyperlinks, that containing all of the states and possibly combined with key terms. Are there search engine or directory requirements for having such links? (As long as you can link these types of requests with providers in these states?)

Also, what about having a page of hyperlinks for the different types of products or services that the website/company provides that lead to a form for processing? Same question. The connecting forms are grouped into types of these product/services.

What about providing a pagelist that gives a rundown, maybe a bulleted list of all the different products/ services that you provide? (excluding any "about us" page.)

Am I travelling into murky waters?

[rustybrick]

Well, without knowing more about the business, I see no reason why not to do both. Plus, I am not 100% sure that I grasp your question accurately. So if my answer is someone off, please help me better understand your question.

If your site is database driven, then generating pages for all methods of navigation, should be easy.

Example:
You Sell Widgets in Blue, Red, and Green (product)
You Sell Widgets to New York, Florida and California (location)
You Offer Widget Services by Hour, By Job and By Warranty (service)


On your homepage, you can break down the navigation to go by product and location and service.

On some of my client's highly dynamic, database driven sites I do this.

If you click on Blue Widget, that page will be optimized for Blue Widget. Within that blue widget page, I offer a further filter through hyperlinks to the location. So now if I click on new york, within the blue widget page, that new page I am taken to is optimized for "blue widgets in new york". Or I can click the back button and have a hyperlink to services offered for blue widgets (i.e. warranty service for blue widget). Then on that page, I can filter down an other level and see a page for "warranty services for blue widgets in new york".

Now of course, if I go back to the homepage, I can just see information about warranties, by clicking on the warranty option I want. Then again, I can filter down to see new york warranties. I think you get my point.

This way you can have a page optimized for each individual and generic keyword phrase.

Please let me know if this answers your question.

[newreality]

Yes it does rustybrick. And it is dynamically driven.

Didn't know if this would be considered excessive use of keywords.

[rustybrick]

I personally don't feel it is excessive. It is actually helpful to your end users, IMO. So go for it.