Location Specific Pages Ranking or Not At All

Hi @cfrench23 and thanks for this question!

When I search this page (https://www.sellknoxvillemobilehomefast.com/sell-mobile-home-fast-blountville-tn/) that should be ranking for Blountville, I find Knoxville mentioned 7 times. You can do this search on any web page by control + f on a pc and command + f on a mac, then type in the word of phrase you want to search in the box that pops up at the top of the browser window. You can move through the places where the word of phrase is mentioned with the up and down arrows. You can stop the search by clicking on the X.

I recommend getting the google chrome extension called SeoQuake (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/seoquake/akdgnmcogleenhbclghghlkkdndkjdjc). SeoQuake will allow you to look at the density of all the words on each site page. You should be looking for a density of around 1.75% to 2% for your most important keywords. You want to do this in a conversational way that makes sense and sounds natural rather than repeating things in a robotic way. 

Because Knoxville is mentioned on the same page as Blountville, this is confusing google. You will need to go through all of your location pages and make sure Knoxville isn’t competing so closely with the main city on that page. It’s ok if Knoxville is in the footer. Just replace it with the specific city from each page in the main body of the page.

You can also use SeoQuake to compare what you are doing on your site to the top 3 competitors. This will give you more of an exact target.

It looks like you removed all of the shortcodes that would make this task easier so this will be a very manual process. The shortcodes look like this:

[market_city] and [market_state]

You can find more info about shortcodes he (https://help.carrot.com/tutorial/shortcodes-used-within-carrot/) and how to use them for location pages here (https://help.carrot.com/tutorial/override-market-settings/).

I also recommend cleaning up your footer navigation menu to not include your location pages. I recommend creating a reusable block that you can add somewhere towards the middle to bottom of each page that has all of the locations you buy neatly organized in 3 columns. Just mention the location and don’t repeat “Sell My Mobile Home Fast In”. These extra words make it really hard to see all of the locations. Then link up each location to the page for that location. Here’s an example of how this might look:

Don’t get caught up on the styling. Just make it easy for your site visitors to read.

Here’s more info on keyword cannibalization (when keywords mentioned on different pages compete against each other) here (https://carrot.com/blog/keyword-cannibalization/) and here (https://help.carrot.com/tutorial/keyword-cannibalization/).

I know this is a lot of info. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I missed anything.

I’m glad I could help!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hi @cfrench23,

When I went into that page, I didn’t see a form.

I duplicated that page as a test that’s currently set to draft mode.

Does this test page look right?

https://cfrench23seller.carrot.com/?page_id=2194

Thanks for your help with this.

I believe I got it all cleaned up and corrected!

Each location page has been corrected as well.

I appreciate all of your assistance!

www.sellknoxvillemobilehomefast.com