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You can always turn a bad idea into a good one if you nail the process of adapting that idea to your own particular situation. Google guidelines basically provide you with these top recommendations: locations pages must not be linked from the footer. location pages shall not be part of the conversion funnel. location pages must be prominent in the real world. Avoid using templates or the same content with only the location name changed. The Areas We Serve Page This page will provide all the links to your targeted locations. They way you do it and in which context will depend on the nature of your website and brand. You need to let Googlebot to find this page so you better link it from a...
Full answer by Raul Reyes: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/112021 (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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