I have a medical billing website that works out of southern california currently i'm putting my focus on keywords like medical billing service and california billing service. My boss wants me to try and target los angeles and orange county billing services as well. I was thinking about creating a city subdirectory and having city specific homepages like having the titles look something like "Los Angeles Medical Billing Service". The only problem is I don't want to link to these on my homepage. If I add them to my sitemap that I submitted for google webmaster tools will that get them indexed? my goal here is to have my long-tail keywords like orange medical billing and LA medical billing to work.
i would make and optimise new pages on your website for the long-tail keywords (i.e "Los Angeles Medical Billing Service")and then add those pages to your sitemap.
Ok I finished putting together the individual sites for those long tail keywords. I just used a quick template and swapped out the keywords in these paragraphs. I added them to my sitemap and updated my robot.txt file to try and point to my sitemap. These pages still don't link from my homepage at all. The only way someone could find them is by combing through my sitemap file. They are in no way connected to my homepage other than that they themselves link to the homepage. I can only hope they are going to get indexed. Did I just waste a lot of time? will get really get indexed this way? Anybody willing to double check for me please? I'm kinda concerned because I was planning on doing webpages for specialties we work with and then match specialties to the cities as well in the future which would be hours and hours of work hehe.