(Entry was posted by JL Faverio on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 08/24/2017).

Should I noindex the dozens of city specific pages a site has?

should I noindex the dozens of city specific pages a site has? or should I allow them to index, forcing me to write unique titles and descriptions for each page?

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Jim Munro: Hi JL Faverio, it is not a stupid question at all. Tim Capper is a Local expert who will have a more up-to-date opinion but here is mine. Maintain an area/region page only if you have a presence there or you service it. The questions should be, "Am I active in this area?", "Do I have an office in this region?", "Do I have name, address and phone details in this area and do I advertise these details elsewhere?" If any answer is "No", then you probably do not need the page. I would just 404 the superfluous pages. The unnecessary fluff is not useful to you and it might even have a negative impact.