Automate geotargeting, good or bad idea?

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bb_wolfe

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I have a project spec'd out to generate HTML pages based on my keywords, Ebay listings, and localized cities/states. I want to use this to generate McJiffy sites or custom Wordpress/PHPBay sites, but have the page geotargeted from the start.

For example:

INPUT: <keyword> , <localized city/state/region/nation>, <Ebay keywords> (example:'Golf balls', 'Illinois', 'Golf Balls')

FILENAME OUTPUT: /golfballs-Chicago-Illinois.html
PAGE OUTPUT/LAYOUT:

Golfballs in Chicago, Illinois
<generic content about buying the cheapest <keyword> here>

[Top 40 golf ball auctions are displayed from Ebay]





The output will use the following format:
http://www.domain.com/<keyword> - <Localized city/state>
or
http//www.domain.com/golfballs-Chicago-Illinois.html

to create the pages. I have a database of all 50 states, cities over 10,000 people, and zip codes. I can tell it to create pages for all of Illinois and it'll shoot out /golfballs-CITYNAME-Illinois.html for each city, where CITYNAME is each city in Illinois.


My question is this: Say I have a brand new domain, never indexed, and I use this script to generate around 3,000 new geotargeted pages, if they're not linked to each other, will this work as a good SEO strategy? I'd use sitemaps for Google but after that I'm just about out of ideas on how I can get a really large, relevant, and automated collection of sites.

What if I link them together, allbeit to a generic directory.

Any thoughts on this? I was just brainstorming today and came up with it. Does something like this already exist? Is this simply a dumb fucking idea due to the pages not being there yesterday, and now all of a sudden there are thousands and Google will not even bother?

Any input? Anyone like the idea and want to add some functionality? I have no problem giving this script free of charge to those who contribute to it's creation/functionality.
 


Yes this would work for targetting the long tail of local search but you'll have a hard time convincing Google that all those pages are worthwhile for their index. There would be approx 70k city specific pages and Google sure isn't going to index them all unless they are properly organized and linked together.
 
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