is placing all local towns in the footer beneficial or harmful

i'm building an attorney site and i'd like to know if you think its beneficial or harmful to cram all the local towns into the footer of the website like on this site???

 

I don't think it is harmful. It is beneficial.
If possible use hcard integration with it. It is very helpful for Local SEO.

 

where is the links for town ?

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so you dont think it would be considered "black hat" seo tricks?

 

It is okay. You can proceed. Good luck

 

I agree that it would be beneficial. If someone searched for:

attorney, <local town>
lawyer, <local town>
etc.

they would have a better chance of bringing up your site.

 

for localized search it indeed helps you. Adding local towns will never harm you. As you are adding your operational areas over there. It adds credit to your website as you are following every dam town of that locality.

But it will be better if you can anchor those towns and build another page based on every town describing how and exactly where you are operating over there.

 

It would be helpful for you to get ranking with local keywords

 

It looks exactly what it is.....it looks Spammy and unprofessional. Its there for search engine fodder, verges on k/w stuffing.

Just my thoughts.

 

Think from the user point of view. If you think that will be beneficial for the user I think you should add it!