dedicated city pages & Googles treatment

[newreality]

There seems to be some ideas that Google wants a site to represent a physical presence for pages that are optimized for cities.

Maybe not the general city sites, per se, but for sites that pertain to individual city businesses.

Since I'm about to do city subdomains -

What's the real story here?

[AussieWebmaster]

use google business center and get confirmed for addresses

[newreality]

use google business center and get confirmed for addresses Not familiar with this. Does Google look to this for sites to get rankings?

What if you are listing other business(s) in different cities?

[jag]

You can have domains in cities, provided business address verification

Not familiar with this. Does Google look to this for sites to get rankings?

What if you are listing other business(s) in different cities?

Best,

[newreality]

Are you saying you cannot have subdomains in the name of cities without having verfication of an actual businesses there?

[AussieWebmaster]

no you can use subdomains - you need to read this stuff http://www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter?gl=US&hl=en-US

[GAustralia]

The maps listings seem to figure out where you are, at least generally - if you don't enter a location into your search. This represents some tailoring of results based on your location. I have not seen this in the organic listings.

[AJMorgans]

Interesting thought. You must enter a location in your search