Generating geographical keywords for geotargeting search engine-offered advertisements

A method for targeting a website toward online searchers based on geographical information submitted to a search engine in an online search, comprising:

• receiving a keyword request with a keyword generator run by a processor of a computer, the keyword request including a geographic location associated with a service provider and a business type associated with the service provider;
• operating the keyword generator to determine a geographically defined service area for the service provider using the geographic location as a center point and using the business type to define a size of the service area;
• querying a spatial database using the service area to identify a set of geographic keyword phrases for the service area;
• and
• generating a website that has content including at least a portion of the set of geographic keyword phrases.

A non-transitory computer readable medium for generating sets of geographic modifiers for use in geotargeting via a search engine, comprising:

• computer readable program code causing a computer to effect generating a definition of a geographic service area;
• computer readable program code causing a computer to effect searching a spatial database comprising geo-keywords using the geographic service area to retrieve a set of geo-keywords associated the geographic service area;
• and
• computer readable program code causing a computer to effect receiving a keyword request including a business address,
• wherein the generating of the definition of the geographic service area comprises associating a central point of the geographic service area with a geographical location corresponding with the business address.