Should We Use an SEO Plugin?

Hi, I’d recommend this one:
https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/

Direct link to WP SEO plugin recommended by pix3x: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
It works fine with GD.

Hi bonzoren

i have used this function which is provided in yoast seo plugin files to register extra variables. i used geodirectory_get_current_location_terms function to get current location and register this value to

%%current_location%%

variable which you can use to add location in title tag with the help of seo plugin. here is the function, copy it to theme functions (functions.php) file.

function retrieve_var1_replacement( $var1 ) {

	$location_terms=geodir_get_current_location_terms();
	$city=$location_terms['gd_city'];
	$region=$location_terms['gd_region'];
	$country=$location_terms['gd_country'];

	if(!empty($city))
		return $city ;
	
	if(!empty($region))
		return $region ;
	
	if(!empty($country))
		return $country ;
	
	return '';
}
 
function register_my_plugin_extra_replacements() {
		wpseo_register_var_replacement( '%%current_location%%', 'retrieve_var1_replacement', 'advanced', 'Use this is for current location' );
		
		wpseo_register_var_replacement( '%%in%%', 'in', 'advanced', 'Use this for in word before location' );
 }
 add_action( 'wpseo_register_extra_replacements', 'register_my_plugin_extra_replacements' );
 ?>

I’ve tried using the code provided my Manish, but as far as I can tell the

geodirectory_get_current_location_terms

function is no longer used, just provides an empty array.

I’ve changed Manish’s function to pull the location info from the post data instead, just add the following code to functions.php in your child theme.

Don’t forget to add

%%current_location%%

to the relevant post types in Yoast’s Settings.

In the code below, I’ve disabled the country location, just uncomment if you want to show countries in the title tags.

// Add location info to yoast titles

function retrieve_var1_replacement( $var1 ) {

	global $post;

	if ($post->post_city) { 
		$city = $post->post_city; 
	}
	if ($post->post_region) {
		$region = $post->post_region; 
	}
	if ($post->post_country) {
		$country = $post->post_country;
	}

	if (isset($city) && !empty($city)) {
		$location = $city . " - ";
	}
	if (isset($region) && !empty($region)) {
		$location .= $region;
	}
	// if (isset($country) && !empty($country)) {
	// 	$location .= " - " . $country;
	// }
	
	return $location;
}
 
function geodir_add_dyn_yoast_title_tags() {
		wpseo_register_var_replacement( '%%current_location%%', 'retrieve_var1_replacement', 'advanced', 'Adds location to title tags' );
 }
 add_action( 'wpseo_register_extra_replacements', 'geodir_add_dyn_yoast_title_tags' );

Great tip. Thanks a lot

Hi to all,

If you want to SEO for Place category archives then read this what i have tested in local xampp with Yoast SEO plugin for places category archives

I have import dummy data and added three locations (Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur) with multilocation plugin and add some more listings to these locations in hotels category.

now i closed the browser and reopen the browser and entered this url

http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/india/rajasthan/jaipur/hotels/

But it was showing the listings for Hotels category for all three locations which is the result of this url

http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/hotels/

now i saw the sitemap of

gd_placescategory-sitemap.xml

created with yoast

it was as followed

URL	Prio	Images	Ch. Freq.	Last Mod.
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/attractions/	60%	0	Weekly	2014-08-11 05:16
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/feature/	40%	0	Weekly	2014-07-25 03:41
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/festival/	20%	0	Weekly	2014-08-12 06:07
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/hotels/	20%	0	Weekly	2014-08-12 02:13
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/restaurants/

sitemap was not indexing the category archives for specific loactions

http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/india/rajasthan/jaipur/hotels/

Now see the shocking part

i visited the jaipur location page

http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/location/india/rajasthan/jaipur

Now the result for both url

http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/india/rajasthan/jaipur/hotels/

and

http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/hotels/

was same and now both of these pages showing the hotels for Jaipur location

and now the sitemap was changed and it is like this

http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/india/rajasthan/jaipur/attractions/	60%	0	

Weekly	2014-08-11 05:16
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/india/rajasthan/jaipur/feature/	40%	0	

Weekly	2014-07-25 03:41
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/india/rajasthan/jaipur/festival/	20%	0	

Weekly	2014-08-12 06:04
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/india/rajasthan/jaipur/hotels/	20%	0	

Weekly	2014-08-12 02:13
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/places/india/rajasthan/jaipur/restaurants/

I want to know the effect of all this on SEO perspective. I think it impacts negative on SEO. anyone have idea