: SoLoMo landingpage localized regionalized down to cities and SEO sitemap.xml I'm working on an SoLoMo (social local mobile) web application. How would you realize the site and the landingpages

@Angela700

Ok you have lots of different questions in there, so I'll try to break it down to smaller chunks.

Your Question:

You have a website, which is mobile friendly, which is also somehow connected to social services in terms of easy signup, sharing and other functionalities which those social networks provide. Give me some best practices ...

My Answer:

Yes. Many actually. It really depends on WHAT you WANT to achieve and WHAT your strategy is. Even the SEO strategy is mildly impacted by WHAT your service is and how it's presented.

Your Question:

Usability-wise you prefer to have one point of entry for your site. Either Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter or something else and use your own Domain to link it, since you do not want to have a zillion different URLs.

My Answer:

So, first, you need to make up your mind on how you want to promote your site. It's plain stupid to market YOUR domain, link that domain to a Social Networking website and from there link visitors back to your page again? Huh? What's the point in that. Also, this scenario is plain horror SEO-wise.

Have a look at .htaccess mod_rewrite and work your Landingpage-URL magic through rewrite conditions. You could use mydomain.com/city and not needing to build a specific page for every city in the world. Let your PHP (or whatever coding tech you use do the magic automatically). You state it yourself, getting location data is not hard to do, just pass that info to the browser's address bar and have Google figure out the rest itself (and Google is pretty good at that).

Your Question:

Yadda yadda yadda, I want to tell Google that my content it not duplicate content, but I still I want to reuse the same content over and over and over and over again and is translated in different languages.

My Answer:

Have a look at Google's Rich Snippets, Schema.org and most importantly read this Google's Help: Multi-regional and multilingual sites

Also, I am not going to cover your last question, since this is highly speculative. SEO and all it's magic is here for every website. Big and small. The big sites all started small at some point and got big because they had the right content and a SEO-strategy that worked for them. You need to find yours and you could be the next big one. ;)

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