Suggestions regarding VPS Locations?

OBHost

Now a days almost all hosting provider has different locations VPS on their website.

Q) What is the market trend now regarding VPS pages design?
Q) Which way will have better results???

Poll Attached..

webcraft

Why should you duplicate content and just replace location name? e.g. display a map on your single vps-site and let users choose the location from a drop-down/selection during order process is the way to go imo.

OBHost

@webcraft said:
Why should you duplicate content and just replace location name?

What if i don't use the duplicate content? Will it better for SEO as well as for Marketing?
Already have a map on website, Have a look at obhost.net (Have any suggestion it will be best)

pike

If you offer the exact same configurations in all locations and never run out of stock you can have 1 page, where customer selects location as VPS attribute on the order page. Other than that I would advise to list each offer for each location, either on one or multiple pages.

OBHost

@pike said:
If you offer the exact same configurations in all locations and never run out of stock you can have 1 page, where customer selects location as VPS attribute on the order page. Other than that I would advise to list each offer for each location, either on one or multiple pages.

Ok...

Hakim

@OBHost said: What if i don't use the duplicate content? Will it better for SEO as well as for Marketing?

Already have a map on website, Have a look at obhost.net (Have any suggestion it will be best)

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Why would you make 100 links in the same place where all of them only linked to only 10 different pages? To me, it looks unprofessional.

I like to see providers all the same type of offerings on a single page. The available locations should be mentioned there. If there is a price difference, the product display page should mention starting from XX & all the locations & their price should be available in order page.

OBHost

@Hakim said:

@OBHost said: What if i don't use the duplicate content? Will it better for SEO as well as for Marketing?

Already have a map on website, Have a look at obhost.net (Have any suggestion it will be best)

http://prntscr.com/xd9xtv

Why would you make 100 links in the same place where all of them only linked to only 10 different pages? To me, it looks unprofessional.

I like to see providers all the same type of offerings on a single page. The available locations should be mentioned there. If there is a price difference, the product display page should mention starting from XX & all the locations & their price should be available in order page.

What about SEO, For example recently we launch Singapore Node and we are not able to get the proper traffic of it, This forcing us to have a separate page of every location with custom (Not duplicate) content for easy google seo market as well as ads.

HaendlerIT

I haven't really thought much about this, but my gut would be to make a single page for the offers, where all locations can be selected.

For SEO I would make a seperate page for each location, but then again refers to the page with all offers, should someone want to order a server.

Hakim

@OBHost said: What about SEO, For example recently we launch Singapore Node and we are not able to get the proper traffic of it, This forcing us to have a separate page of every location with custom (Not duplicate) content for easy google seo market as well as ads.

I am not an expert on SEO.
You can use meta tag, Schema, etc. I assume your SEO target is Google. What I know is google does care about user experience. Not hundreds of tags on the web page & thousands of meta tags(I did a few years back).

jsg

@OBHost

I just had a quick look at your web site and I see quite a bit that needs improvement. For example, your locations on the map are ridiculously wrong. Or, just a details but details can bite you, "Euro" below canadian Dollars? Seriously? You really want to risk p_ssing off > half a billion Europeans?

As for your VPS page I feel it's a mess. Example: "OpenVZ" and "KVM" tucked away in tiny letters, no location info at all (that I could see at a quick glance), colour scheme not really well to read, etc.

As for your OP: Not "either or" but both. A convenient human oriented (well structured!) page with selections -and- pages per location and type (OVZ - KVM, etc) which primarily address SEO but also serve humans, linking, etc.

webcraft

@OBHost said:
What if i don't use the duplicate content? Will it better for SEO as well as for Marketing?

If you don't use duplicated content, this could improve your SEO but it has to contribute to the user experience, means you should really provide different information and not just location specific ones. Google/Bing/Yahoo etc. values the benefit a user gets when being redirected to your site. If a user gets 75% (I don't know the exact number) the same information on all your vps-sites, you're just drumming up traffic to the crawler bots which might be regarded as spam and thus decrease your SEO instead of improving.

@OBHost said:
Already have a map on website, Have a look at obhost.net (Have any suggestion it will be best)

Yes, this is what I mean. Would add this to your single vps-site.

ravepen_xyz

I think it all depends on how many locations and vps plans you have.

If you have many locations and multiple plans in each location then it is good to have mutiple pages based on locations, for good user experience. You don't want users to keep scrolling to find the location they want and then see the plans they want in that location. Just imagine Oneprovider having a single page for all their dedicated server offers, that will be bad user experience.

If the plans and locations are few then you can go in for a single page and segregate based on location.

Also if the plans are similar in all locations, then you can just show the plans and while ordering they can choose the location they want.

OBHost

@jsg said:
@OBHost

I just had a quick look at your web site and I see quite a bit that needs improvement. For example, your locations on the map are ridiculously wrong. Or, just a details but details can bite you, "Euro" below canadian Dollars? Seriously? You really want to risk p_ssing off > half a billion Europeans?

Currency has been adjusted as Alphabetically orders, Let me update the maps etc..

@jsg said:
@OBHost

As for your VPS page I feel it's a mess. Example: "OpenVZ" and "KVM" tucked away in tiny letters, no location info at all (that I could see at a quick glance), colour scheme not really well to read, etc.
As for your OP: Not "either or" but both. A convenient human oriented (well structured!) page with selections -and- pages per location and type (OVZ - KVM, etc) which primarily address SEO but also serve humans, linking, etc.

Suggestions Noted.

OBHost

@ravepen_xyz said:

If the plans and locations are few then you can go in for a single page and segregate based on location.

Also if the plans are similar in all locations, then you can just show the plans and while ordering they can choose the location they want.

Plans are same just pricing difference because of location selection.

ravepen_xyz

how many locations you have? @OBHost

OBHost

Germany, Pakistan, Poland, France, Singapore & Canada

ravepen_xyz

Have a look at LeapSwitch / Vultr / Ramnode - you might get an idea .

But if locations are many try something Oneprovider.com

OBHost

@ravepen_xyz said:
Have a look at LeapSwitch / Vultr / Ramnode - you might get an idea .

But if locations are many try something Oneprovider.com