Same content...almost?

Different pages for different cities

[zoobie]

I'm selling [snip] and have made specific pages for different cities on the same site. For example, the title says "[snip]" and has [snip] within the page's content. Other pages have the title "[snip]" and have [snip] within the page's content. Because only a few select words have been changed, will the SE's penalize me?
Suggestions?
Thanks

[edited by: pageoneresults at 10:32 am (utc) on Jan. 31, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed Specifics - Please Refer to TOS [/edit]

[willybfriendly]

Right now, Google will not penalize what you describe (based on my experience). Whether it should or not is open for discussion. I live in a rural community, and I can not find anything in my town because of all the sites driven by some database of US towns and cities.

WBF

[robotsdobetter]

You can get penalize, but if you change some things around on one page then you should be fine. This happen to me about 3 or 4 months ago on a site that I owned. I also have friends that this happen to. I am also a part time SEO and see this happen as well, so be careful on it because Google's bots are dumb.