When a business needs a page for each location

What a location page is

A location page is the page on your site that stands for one physical place your customers visit. If you have one office, your homepage and contact page do that job. If you have two clinics, two showrooms, or two parks, each one needs its own page, because a person searching “physical therapy Nampa” wants the Nampa clinic, its address, its hours, and the therapists who work there, not a company page that mentions Nampa in passing.

The page has a fixed set of parts. The title tag and H1 carry the service and the town. The body states the street address exactly as it appears on your Google Business Profile, the phone number for that location, hours, parking or entry directions, the services offered at that address, and the names of the people who work there. It carries LocalBusiness schema for that address, and it is the page the Google Business Profile for that location links to, which is what gives each place its own clear record in Google and Bing, described under entity clarity.

A location page is not a page for every town within driving distance. Google has a name for those, doorway pages, and treats them as a reason to rank a site lower, not higher.

What a broken location page looks like on a physical therapy site

The first failure is having no location pages at all. A practice with clinics in Meridian and Nampa has one Contact page listing both addresses. Google cannot tell which clinic is the main one, the Google Business Profile for each clinic links to the same homepage, and the search “physical therapy Nampa” returns a competitor with a page built for that town.

The second failure is the opposite. The practice builds a page for Meridian, Nampa, Kuna, Caldwell, Eagle, Star, and Boise, each with the same 300 words and only the town name changed. It has clinics in two of those towns. The other five pages have no address, no staff, no hours, and nothing a person in Kuna could use. Google recognizes the pattern and usually indexes none of them, including the two that were legitimate.

The third failure is a location page that exists but is thin. It has the address and a map and nothing else. It does not say which therapists work there, whether the clinic does dry needling or vestibular therapy, whether it takes the patient’s insurance, or when it opens. The searcher calls the front desk to ask, or calls the competitor whose page already said.

A worked example: location pages for a two-clinic PT practice in Meridian and Nampa

Ridgeline Physical Therapy has two clinics and sees about 140 visits a week between them, 85 in Meridian and 55 in Nampa. Its site had one Contact page with both addresses. Here is what each new location page states, side by side, so you can see that the two pages share a structure and nothing else.

Each page also has a photo of the actual building front and the waiting room, a paragraph on parking, and a short bio for each therapist at that clinic. Pelvic health is only offered in Nampa, so it appears only on the Nampa page, and the pelvic health service page links back to Nampa. Here is the opening paragraph of the old Contact page against the opening of the new Nampa page.

Ridgeline Physical Therapy proudly serves the Treasure Valley with two convenient locations. Contact us today to schedule an appointment at the clinic nearest you.

Ridgeline Physical Therapy’s Nampa clinic is at 815 12th Ave. S., Suite 3, two blocks south of the Nampa Library, with parking in front. Two physical therapists and one assistant treat orthopedic injuries, post-surgical recovery, and pelvic health here Monday through Friday, with 7 am openings on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Most patients are seen within three business days of calling (208) 555-0187.

The after version gives a person in Nampa the address, the landmark, the parking, the services, the hours, and the phone in three sentences. Nothing in it could be pasted onto the Meridian page.

How to check your own location pages

1. Count the addresses where a customer can walk in. That is the number of location pages you need, no more.
2. Search Google for site:yoursite.com Nampa for each town where you have an address. If the homepage or Contact page comes up first, the clinic has no page of its own.
3. Search site:yoursite.com with the name of a town where you do not have an address. If a page appears, read it. If it is the same copy as another page with the town swapped, it is a doorway page and should be removed or redirected.
4. Open each Google Business Profile you manage and check the website link. It should point to that location’s page, not the homepage.
5. Open each location page and confirm the address matches the profile character for character, including “Suite” and “Ave.” Mismatches are covered on our page about name, address, and phone consistency.
6. In Google Search Console, filter Performance by page for each location page and look at the queries. A working location page shows queries that include its town.

What we do about location pages

We match your addresses to your pages and close the gap in both directions, building a full page for each place a customer can visit and removing town pages that have no address behind them. Each location page gets the address, hours, phone, staff, and services for that place, photos of the actual building, and schema that tells Google which profile it belongs to. The Google Business Profile for each location is pointed at its own page, and the service pages link to the locations that offer them. If you have opened a second location and the site still reads as if you have one, this is where the work begins.

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