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**weatherbadger** · 06-30-2010, 05:24 AM

I'm trying to increase the exposure of the (over 40,000) European locations in my database for which my site provides weather forecasts.

Following from a post last week:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/seo-ta...ion-pages.html

on Thursday I added 3 SEO-helping-links on my footer.

These link to UK country pages eg http://www.weatherbadger.com/country/UK/England.php . These pages contain links to 150 pages of sub-regions (UK counties) eg
http://www.weatherbadger.com/country...of_Cumbria.php
and these pages contain a list of links to the php-generated weather forecasts (currently covering each of 1800 towns in the UK as a first-effort).

After a few days Google and Yahoo are showing the regional (England/Scotland etc) pages, so if i Google "weatherbadger.com" cumbria it takes me to /country/UK/England.php but it doesn't show any county pages (with my lists of locations) ...yet.

Have I done this right? What sort of a timescale am I looking at? I'm wondering if I need some more content on my regional pages or something (I'll try and do maps eventually), but can someone reassure me they will get listed eventually?

Cheers
WB

**chrishirst** · 06-30-2010, 06:50 AM

Sometime between shortly and never.

They are exactly the kind of pages that search engines do NOT want to list.

Essentially duplicates where only a small amount of content changes.

**weatherbadger** · 06-30-2010, 10:23 AM

Darn - not so encouraging. I'll wait a bit longer then revise tactics. Perhaps if I put more information on my county list and/or site forecast pages - a location map or something, that may make them more attractive to search engines?

Re "small amount of content" I'm obviously fairly limited with weather forecast data - I was kind of hoping that with weather itself changing and the 7 day weather forecast in one location being different to another, things would be different enough. Would it be any better if my forecasts were at a URL such as index.php/country/UK/England/Cumbria/kendal-forecast.php?

Thanks for your advice.

**HiChina** · 06-30-2010, 11:01 AM

I really appreciated the effort of posting the above comments. tHank you