Submission for business in suburb of large metro area

Hello, I recently designed a site for a client who resides and maintains his business in a very small community outside of Cleveland Ohio. If I list his site, he is a photographer, can I do it for cleveland/photography? Will an editor visit his site and see his address is different from "Cleveland" and place him elsewhere or not at all? THanks.

Always submit the site to the specific locality, not the nearest big city.

I was thinking that may be the case. This is really unfortunate, as I can see where many people who are in the service industries such as photography, catering, etc. whose business is based in a small community on the doorstep of a larger community are really going to suffer. In my clients case, he lives/works in a small town called Shaker Heights just outside of Cleveland. People that he would serve are likely to do a search for "Cleveland photographer" and not "shaker heights photographer". Don't you agree? I can certainly understand that the line needs to be drawn somewhere though. Take care, thanks for the reply.

Tom

We are indifferent to what people search on -- simply because it is irrelevant to what we are doing. We're building something different -- a directory.

You can suggest a description something like "special event photographer serving the greater Metropolis metropolitan area"

But for what the kind of search you are describing, Google's "local search" will work much better than anything we could possibly ever do -- and it's neither necessary nor useful for us to attempt unsuccssfully to build a crippled imitation of it.

Thanks for the clarification. I understand.