Contentful and get all city pages links that are in a particular state

Question

I'm having a devil of a time modeling things in Contentful. I did the tutorials, but still don't even know where to begin.

I sell tutoring services, brokering, in many states. So, I want to display, on front page, all the states... but when click, you get all the cities... you click a city, you get all the tutoring topics.

This, as you can imagine, will get into the thousands as I am very SEO conscious and will need custom info per city etc..

How would/should I model the US, then then states, then cities...and each city could have like 4 or 5 separate tutoring pages. 1 specific for Math, or Spanish or Guitar etc..

I guess US & state will have one to many relationships, but how do I create "links", so I can:

1. List out all states
2. List out all cities
3. Get particular city page with tutorials. User would have selected something like /us/california/san-diego/lesson-guitar.

So, user lands on homepage

Alabama
Arkansas
California
Connecticut 
etc...


  `1. Person clicks on California..

2. Person sees some California info, like a page:California

3. At bottom of page, a list of all the serviceable cities.

4. Person clicks city. Let's say San Diego. They see the page:sanDiego page.. with list of tutoring etc..`

There seems there will be page types, but not sure how to add links to the various cities, states etc...

Like, what field would I add to show all valid states in the US? Would that be a separate content type? Or would I add that to the various "pages" and would it be an array or ?

So confusing.

Answer 1

In this case, I'll create a separate content type for States and Cities. In the tutoring and brokering content types, I will then add a reference field that would refer to the City and State content type.

Hope this helps :)