Can my strong local domain affect my SEO in a different city?

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Suppose I have a site called boston.com , now on boston.com I am also listing local business for New York and Baltimore City as well. What I find is for business in Boston, my ranking is really high but for non Boston city, the ranking is quite low and litterally all my visitors of searching for local business in Boston. My question is: Does my strong domain name for one city can affect my SEO for the other city? Let’s say I have a website name...

Originally asked by TheTechGuy on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I will try to be precise in my answer: I can not see how a domain ranking for a city could affect (or cannibalize) the other two websites with different locations. The only possibility I can think of is about the way the boston website is organized, webserver location and configuration, Website NAP, number of website backlinks from local business directories, Map listings and any other signal that strongly suggest your website is serving a region or delivering content to that same region. I would suggest to use a moderate approach, an strategy that will take sometime before seeing results. Do not to change your boston.com site as it is ranking. If it is possible create a separate website...

Full answer by Raul Reyes: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/109756 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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