The primary market of Altoona PA is the Blair County area. There is also cross over buys from parts of Bedford, Huntingdon and Cambria Counties.
When you are targeting your markets geographic areas you will want to consider several the cities, zip codes and area codes of these areas.
I will give some examples below but your market may be a bit wider then I am showing in my examples so you will want to adjust accordingly. I am only showing data based on Blair County here.
Major Areas of Blair County PA Area Code 814
16601 Altoona
16602 Altoona
16603 Altoona
16617 Antis
16617 Bellwood
16625 Claysburg
16631 Curryville
16635 Duncansville
16637 East Freedom
16648 Hollidaysburg
16662 Martinsburg
16665 Newry
16673 Bakers Summit
16673 Roaring Spring
16682 Sproul
16684 Tipton
16686 Tyrone
16693 Ganister
16693 Williamsburg
Now lets see how we would use these as a search string on our web page or the background of our web page. We will first take our main key phrase and then create a page around that search string and the area we want to target. Then on our main site we will create links to those pages.
As our example lets say our key phrase is Internet Marketing and another phrase is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. We would create pages and links that look something like this: