To use the same content just changing the keywords could be seen as duplicate content?

[sellonline123]

I want to offer the same service or product in many different cities, so instead of creating a new content for each city what I want to do it to copy the content already created for the product and service of a city  and then change the name of the city and create a new url inside my website for each city.

for example let say I sell handmade rings in the USA, but I want o target each principal city in the USA, so I have want to have a unque url for ecxh city so for example for

Miami I want to have www.mydomain.com/handmade-rings-miami

and for LA the url would be www.mydomain.com/handmade-rings-la

Can I have the same content talking about the handmade rings and just change the keywords and key phrases? or this will count as a duplicate content?

content:

TITLE: Miami Handmade Rings

URL :www.mydomain.com/handmade-rings-miami

Shop Now handmade rings in Miami  in our online store and get a special discount in Miami purchases over $50 and also get free shipping on Miami Local address...

See what our Miami handmade rings clients say about our products....

TITLE: LA Handmade Rings

URL: www.mydomain.com/handmade-rings-la

Shop Now handmade rings in LA  in our online store and get a special discount in LA purchases over $50 and also get free shipping on LA Local address...

See what our LA handmade rings clients say about our products....

There are more than 100 location in the country I want to do this, so that is why I want to copy paste and replace..

Thanks in advance,

David Orion

[EGOL]

This used to work superbly until about 2003.  Then google was able to identify these sites and would drop all of the pages except one or two.

Cookie cutter pages are no longer useful.

[SL_SEM]

Check out articles on the Panda update recently to see a lot about this topic.

I especially like this one from Vanessa Fox

The gist of it is that Google has started to devalue sites with lots of "cloned" pages where the content is very similar from page to page, but the area info, or keyword swaps out.

This is based on the idea that content that is tailored to a page's topic is more useful to the user, and it is more likely to carry nuances than broader content.

So for example I can talk about hotels in Dallas, or New York the same exact way "See Dallas/New York Hotels downtown and be close to all of the hip restaurants and activities"

Or I could go with something more Dallas Specific "See our Downtown Dallas Hotels near the American Airlines center, the Dallas Museum of Art, and direct access to the DART Trains"

The second example is WAY more useful to the user, and so Google's latest updates will tend to favor that over generic topical text.

So if you can afford to get copywriting for each topic I would.

If you can't then I would start picking out the biggest value terms and build content specific to that, use generic content for the other terms for now, but slowly replace those over time as well with more valuable content.

You may be in a situation where there isn't more valuable specific content to outrank you right now so the generic content will do decently in the rankings. In this case you may not see such a horrible ranking, but when someone eventually competes with you and catches on to your scheme it will be better to have the unique content already working for you.

Just my 2 cents

[AnthonyMangia]

Yes, this will be seen as duplicate content.  There's no "easy" way to create unique content for each locale.  The best you can do is have a general outline and outsource the content creation to a high quality writer (or sit down and start writing yourself).  Article spinning or cheap writers will lead to low quality articles that will be difficult to get to rank well.