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GEO HUB
for a project with a single GBP, the GEO HUB is the Home page?
1 like • 20d
Yes.... but the stacking and how you layer the geo and poi articles has massively changed from the training. They have to be done with information gain and semantic relevance now or they can devalue the site as a whole.
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The foundation logic still holds, Benjamin — hub, clear parents, authority flowing up. What's changed is the ground under the pages themselves. The old process assumed a geo page that didn't rank cost you nothing. That's no longer true. Google now reads thin location pages as a statement about the whole site — enough of them and the domain itself gets treated as publishing for the algorithm instead of readers, and everything slides, not just the geo pages. So pages that used to be a free bet now carry real downside. Same build, reversed economics. Quick filter for anything you're about to publish: delete the city name from the page and ask if there's any reason left for it to exist. If no, it's a liability. If yes — real local knowledge a reader couldn't get anywhere else — the structure you learned will carry it fine. If you've already got a build in flight, don't panic-delete anything. Run that filter across it, and if you're not sure which side of the line a project's on, DM me and I'll take a look. Still building this every day. There's nothing in the course on this yet — which is why I'm answering it here. Consider these threads the living update for now.
Questions regarding internal links on supporting content?
Hello everyone, I am helping a software training institute to generate leads. We are available in 4 sub urbans (OMR, Anna Nagar, Porur and Chennai) in Chennai city. Can I link to all suburban's from my one supporting content? For example in this article "can I learn data analytics in 6 months", in this article can I link to all the suburban's or do I need to create one article per suburban? Other than this what are the best practice for internal liking in my case? TIA
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Two things here, and the second one matters more than the first. First, the direction. Even under the process you're describing, a supporting article was never meant to fan out to every geo page. Links should flow up — geo pages push into the service hub, supporting articles push into the topic they belong to, and authority meets at the service level. One article linking down to four suburb pages is backwards. It doesn't distribute strength; it dilutes the one page that's supposed to have it. Second, and this is the honest part: I'd be careful how much more you invest in the four-suburb structure at all. Google's spent the last couple of years getting very good at recognizing pages that exist because of a location rather than because of something real to say about it. Four suburb pages for one institute, with the same offer and mostly the same words, is exactly that pattern — and when it gets discounted, it doesn't just fail to rank, it drags the quality signal for the whole site down with it. That's the part most people don't see until it's already happened. What's pushing local now is the opposite of what pushed it before. It's not more pages that mention Anna Nagar. It's fewer, deeper pieces that actually know something about data analytics training that the other institutes' sites don't — real curriculum detail, real outcomes, real answers — and a clean structure where each of those pieces has exactly one parent. That's what earns the authority the location pages borrow from. So for your "6 months" article: one parent, the data analytics program page. Not the suburbs. Make the article better than anything else ranking for that question, and you'll have done more for those four locations than any amount of linking to them.
Information Gain is the GAME now
Been doing a bunch of Local SEO work and am seeing more and more that "TRUE" Information Gain is what is moving the needle..
Question regarding supporting article
Hello everyone, I am working with a gold buying company with 50+ locations in my State. How I can come with SILO as this is single theme website. Need recommendations on how I can proceed with the SILO to improve the rankings. Thanks in advance Siva
1 like • Jun 17
@Sivagopi Appadurai Let me add an important layer to what I said, because with 50 locations there's a real trap to avoid. If you build 50 near-identical "Sell Gold in [City]" pages, Google will read them as doorway pages — thin gateways that exist only to funnel people to a contact form. That's the fastest way to hurt a single-theme site, not help it. The locations still matter, but the geographic content has to earn its place by being genuinely valuable on its own. The shift: geographic content that amplifies, not funnels. Two kinds of geo content do the heavy lifting, and the key is that both have to be topically tied to gold and to your actual market — not generic city filler. Geographic authority pieces — real local intelligence for the person who has gold to sell. Not "Welcome to [City]," but things like the local precious-metals market, where the historic jewelry or antique district is, local consumer-protection rules around selling valuables, what estate and probate looks like in that county. Someone landing cold on that page should learn something useful even if they never call you. Point-of-interest pieces — and here's the part most people miss: the POIs have to connect to why people sell gold, or they're irrelevant. A guide to the local city park does nothing for a gold buyer. But the county probate courthouse, the historic jewelry district, a well-known local auction or estate-sale house, an annual coin or collectibles show — those are topically relevant, because they sit right where inherited gold, estate jewelry, and collector coins change hands. That's your audience's world. Keep the mix honest. The bulk of the site should still be the actual subject — how gold pricing works, karat differences, spot price, scam avoidance, what to bring when selling. The geographic pieces are a portion of the content, not the whole strategy. When educational depth outweighs the location pages, the location pages read as legitimate. When it's 50 location pages and little else, they read as doorways.
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0 likes • Jun 17
@Erik Isbrandt It's live. This one's 1-on-1 consulting — high-ticket and intentionally limited, since it's direct access. If you're interested, DM me and we'll see if it's a fit.
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