How a multi-location services site connected its location pages
An anonymised multi-location services site (~320 pages)
47
Before
72
After
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This business served dozens of locations with a page for each, plus pages for every service. On paper it had great local coverage. In practice the location pages sat in silos — they didn't link to nearby locations, to the services offered there, or to supporting content. Here's what the audit found and what changed.
What the audit found
38
Isolated location pages
Location pages linked only from a directory list, with no links to nearby areas or to the services offered there.
Almost none
Service ↔ location links
Service pages and location pages barely referenced each other, so neither ranked for 'service in city' queries.
44%
Authority on the homepage
Internal authority pooled on the homepage and main service hub instead of reaching location pages.
26
Internal links to add
Links to connect locations to services, nearby areas, and supporting content.
What was changed
The kind of links added
82
Health
B+
Grade
Strong structure with a few high-impact internal links to add. Acting on the list below could unlock a meaningful lift in organic visibility.
Internal links to add
Anchor: “internal linking strategy”
Placement: Paragraph 3, sentence 2
Anchor: “structural SEO platform”
Placement: Paragraph 6, sentence 1
Anchor: “build topic clusters”
Placement: Paragraph 2, sentence 4
14
Quick wins
12
Orphan pages
9
Anchor gaps
The problem: coverage without connection
Multi-location businesses often build a page per location and a page per service, then never connect the two. The location pages hang off a single directory list and link nowhere useful; the service pages don't say where the service is offered. Search engines see a flat directory, not a network — so 'service in city' queries, the most valuable local terms, go unmet.
The fix: weave the grid together
The audit prioritised the links that build the location-by-service grid: each location page linking to the services available there and to adjacent areas, each service page linking to its locations, and supporting content pointing into both. That turned isolated pages into a connected structure that can rank for the long tail of local queries.
The result
Structural health moved from 47 to 72 as location and service pages connected into a real network and authority spread off the homepage. As new locations launch, the same linking pattern keeps them from starting life as orphans.
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