{"id":365,"date":"2011-07-09T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2011-07-09T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T00:13:06","slug":"create-a-40000-page-site-instantly-with-a-zip-code-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/create-a-40000-page-site-instantly-with-a-zip-code-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a tip. Create a 40,000 page site instantly with a zip code dataset."},"content":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago, I introduced the idea of creating a megasite using publicly available datasets<\/a>.\u00a0 In this article, we’ll discuss how we can use US zip codes to create a 40,000 page megasite instantly.<\/p>\n

(You can pick up your copy of the zip codes data set here: http:\/\/federalgovernmentzipcodes.us\/<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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So, how does it work?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

There are approximately 40,000 zip codes across the US.\u00a0 Therefore, using a data set of US zip codes (e.g. a MySQL table loaded with US zip code information), we can create 40,000 unique pages, where each page is localized to a specific zip code.<\/p>\n

A perfect example of this in action would be 300K Page Job Search In-a-Box<\/a>, the niche job search turnkey script I released.\u00a0 In this example, for each job category, we create a job results page per zip code.\u00a0 Take a look at LocalClericalJobs.com<\/a>.\u00a0 For the job category “auditing,” notice how we have a page per zip code…<\/p>\n