City State Keyword List Generators - FREE!

[Linda Buquet]

We all know local search is hot. Certain keywords and phrases get a large percentage of localized City or City/State searches. So if you are targeting these types of keywords, it can be very helpful to include a list of City and State Keyword combos on your page. If you are doing AdWords then it can be even more important to be able to generate City/State/Keyword lists easily and adding city/state combos to target locally can help you get better conversions, CTR, and lower PPC prices.

Examples: Insurance quote San Diego + all other cities in California, Portland Real Estate+ all other cities in Oregon, find a date Chicago + all cities in Ill. The 2nd local KW generator I give you below can also generate keyword lists by zip.

Jonathan Leger offers a really cool FREE City/State/Keyword list generator. This tool will generate a list of city and/or state combinations for any keywords you provide, allowing you to target every city and state in the USA. You can select what format you want - KW city state or city only KW or city state KW" It even automatically formats your key phrases as [exact match], "phrase match" or broad match for use in your Adwords campaigns. He also has many other free keyword, webmaster and SEO tools here.

Here's another FREE localized KW generator that works differently and could be better in some cases. It offers several options that are different than Jonathan's tool.