How do I skip "Popular Places" / "View All" on the Listing pages?

Interestingly, Yelp has a similar setup:

http://www.yelp.com/c/san-diego/solarinstallation

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Solar+Companies&find_loc=San+Diego%2C+CA

Which is similar, however, I noticed that when I go to “View All” the URL seems session based, so search engines could never index this page. Is this correct?

If so, then this would mean that search engines would only index the Location page that is designed to show only a little bit of the content (E.g. 5 “Popular Places”)

Seems there are only two possible solutions to helping both users and engines, neither of which seem very feasible:

1. Get the Places page to have a URL thats indexable by search engines, since this is the page with the richer content, all listings, reviews, and better UX

2. Somehow get the “Sort by” filters, all listings, paging, etc… to go on the Location page along with all the listings. This method seems more of a hack, but possibly more feasible than messing with permalinks, but I am not a developer

(p.s. on a side note, where can I modify the content that contains the “Popular Places” block on the Location page?)

These would be the same two pages on your site:

http://wpgeo.directory/location/united-states/illinois/chicago/

and this page:

http://wpgeo.directory/attractions/chicago/landmark/

So, your “Landmarks” page is different than mine. Yours has a URL, whereas mine does not. When I click the “View All” near “All Places” box, it changes the URL to example.com/places/

I understand that “attractions” portion of the URL represents “Place Categories” and Chicago is a “Place”, but not sure what your “Landmarks” section represents

thanks

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Ok, so I understand the CPT better

My other part of the question is:

When I am on a URL of a location page,
E.g. /united-states/california/los-angeles,

And I click “View all” to the right of “All Places” to see all Places at that location (a.k.a. city), the url then reads:

example.com/places/

It does not matter what location you just were looking at, the url is generic (using session info to know to display the correct contents).

which means search engines cannot index places “View All” section.

Is this correct? and by design? if so, why is that so?

When you say “widget” I assume you mean “/wp-admin/widgets.php”

When I look at that widgets page, I am not sure where to find the location filter, but I read in another thread here that maybe you mean the “Popular Post View” widget.

I do not have this widget in use. I did try testing it, along with the “location filter” being turned on but, the problem persisted.