Multiple Keywords Content Generation SEO Strategy

Hi I'm planning a SEO campaign but stuck on one problem.

The following example is for illustration only Let's say I sell shoes in continental US, and I want to target the following key words:

1. Buy black dress shoes in New York
2. Buy black dress shoes in Miami
3. Buy yellow boots in New York
4. Buy yellow boots in Miami

Theoretically, I can write four articles about the four keywords. However, 4 separate articles won't make sense because of the similarity in each items. Imagine four articles have similar contents except the shoe type and location.

On the other hand, I can group based on shoe types and mention different cities I sell to.

What if I have hundreds of shoe types? What is the best strategy for this type of content?

I believe your understanding of the SEO problem you are having when trying to rank for multiple city keyword modifiers is superficial. There are two components to the SEO puzzle, optimization of the on-page elements and of the off-page elements, from which the latter has far greater weight when it comes to rankings, meaning that the relevance of the page is mainly calculated based on inbound links. Having inbound links from websites relevant to the city in question will get you good rankings coupled with that city keyword present in your page title, headings and body text.

On-page, IMHO, the best way to approach the city keyword modifier problem is by having a combination of static and dynamically generated content so that you have an individual page, optimized for each city you are trying to rank for. However you will have to come up with a decent size content that is unique to that page. I think you can try some UGC like comments from Miami buyers or a google maps app or anything else you can think of.

There is a not yet proved theory about google relevance calculating algorithm that says the occurrence of terms correlated with the main targeted term helps rankings.

But what I can tell you from my own experience is that for ranking on terms ending in NY you have to have inbound links from pages with the NY keyword in them at least, if not better in the anchors of the link to your website.

I'd say having a single page that lists all your shoe categories, preferably have it as a side menu on your home page.

You can then work on the SEO of that page creating lots of inbound links via articles, posts and listings on other websites.

The trick with the huge numbers is to describe them under common, very practical keywords that hit your niche market.

Also, perhaps coming up with a unique fancy name such as NickBoots in NY or NickBoots in Miami and promoting it will also get you unique results, and maybe even quicker since the search spiders will have less pages to index with such search terms.

Few ads on Fb, a Twitter account and AdWords will do the rest of the work on a slim budget - i think!!!

Hope my suggestions float above rubbish? ;)

While having a dedicated page will always be good as long as each page's content can be sufficiently unique, which is difficult to do over a large number of long tail terms, you've got to first look at the competition for the key terms you wish to target. If the terms are not too competitive and very long tail, then you could consider just optimizing the current set of pages to have those target terms in them and focus more on building links to those pages with the targeted anchor text. If the terms are reasonably competitive, then you'd want dedicated pages or even domains in certain cases. It really depends on the competitiveness of the target terms.

I would always look at what the other sites are like that are ranking for those terms and try to come up with a strategy, that while similar, will be slightly better in terms of execution of it's content and link building strategy.