European Cities

How to rate for European city searches

[kapow]

For a website promoting hotels in all major European Cities: I guess a traveller would search for 'Paris Hotels' in Yahoo - the resulting listing is primarily from the Paris category.
For this reason I am thinking of using sub domains e.g. instead of blahHotel.com to use Paris.blahHotel.com - for 5 cities.

Will Yahoo accept these as separate sites (each site with say 5 pages about that city and travel offers), or is it necessary to go for 5 top level domain names?

[JamesR]

I have heard mixed views on this one...I think you need substantial content on each subdomain to have a chance to enter into the directory.

[kapow]

Thanks James R.
Here's the problem - suppose you sell travel to European Cities, your potential customers are going type into Yahoo a phrase that includes a destination, that brings the destination category listing. So one way or another the site must get into the listing for a destination categorie. Nobody is going to type 'European Cities travel'.

So - what constitutes substantial content? How about 10 excellent pages on that city?

[JamesR]

You are right on your keyword assessment and I know what you want to accomplish but the only way around it I have seen is by bending the rules.

[kapow]

What would you say constitutes quality content?
- Number of pages
- Depth of content

I have no problem with creating a very useful site for visitors.