Question about sub domains would this help my seo

if i have a web site on lets say new york city computer repair with a domain of nycpcrepair.com with the first couple sentances of text go something like this

welcome to new york city computer repair we are blah blah blah we can do this that and this ......... only at new york city computer repair

now i want a sub domain of
queens.nycpcrepair.com
and the first few sentances to go something like this notice it is the same as above just the citys changed

welcome to queens computer repair we are blah blah blah we can do this that and this ......... only at queens computer repair


and i make sub domains for all the little areas of a bigger city and just change new york to queens or new york to manhaton

would this be considered duplicate content

and if someone would type in queens computer repair in google what would come up queens.domain.com or domain.com

thanks

anyone?

Subdomains are useful when they provide an unque information about service, product or anything else. Thinko fthem as a separate subsites that cover a part of your business. They are useless if they cover the same topics with a very few different keywords.

Subdomains are considered a separate site, so from Google's point of view the short answer is that Yes - they are worth it.

If you are changing a few words only then Google will consider that you are creating auto pages from a database and will devalue the content. So long as it is sufficiently different they will still index it and show it in SERPS, but Google is very good at spotting generated pages and quite rightly assumes that if there are a large number of them they are likely to be of less value to a customer.

The best way around this is to make sure each page has genuine useful content specific to that area. You could d that with news feeds, e.g. a Queens RSS feed, or even by adding a "comments" facility. That way your visitors will do the work for you and give you lots of nice search engine rich friendly.

Hope that helps.

I agree, you must make sure that your new subdomain has an entirely unique content, otherwise there is a great tendency that this might happen again.

Try to modify the description as well, if just a copy paste of the original site with just the name of the location changed, then yes that may be considered duplicate content.

instead of subdomain use a folder for each area, ex.

nycpcrepair.com/queens/

the advantage is that instead of having a site for each area of the city ( and a subdomain is a different site) your site nycpcrepair.com will be content rich.

I agree that you should have unique content on each folder, perhaps rss feeds or something.

thanks much everyone