What do you think of this strategy?

Do companies who use the domain name strategy

SERVICE+LOCATION



like

drycleaningmanhattan
or
locksmithdayton
or
autoshopcharlotte


Do they work well where you put in the generic service and then the location?
How does Google treat sites like these? Is this a good strategy to follow or not?

 

using keywords in domain name is good for seo.

 

It actually helps a lot in terms of SEO viewpoint. It's like establishing yourself and making a name for the niche you are in.

 

This is good, but it is only 1 keyword and only one of many factors.

 

Keyword in domain main will help, but not very much. Try to select a name that people can easily remember and is easy to type it too.

 

I agree, the name should be simple so people will not have a hard time
remembering it.

 

Short domain name are easy to remember at least with my brain

 

Using subdomains is good also. Something like:

manhattan.drycleaning.com
manhattan-area.drycleaning.com
1-800-manhattan.drycleaning.com
Etc

Remember you can build as many subdomains as you wish. Just be carefull to put unique and good content on each one.

 

Yes, especially for Yahoo, it is work well.

 

Using a keyword in the domain name is a good start. make sure your main keywords line up in the title and h1, check out this example:

notice the domain, meta tags, and location links on the top left.

http://www.seattlehousecleaning.net/

 

it is good that you can also focus on local optimization which now it is significant.

 

Yes such thing help very much specially when someone makes search related to local services . Go for it this will help you a lot .