Amy Fox
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OK thanks for your help sorting all this out.
No it was me confusing myself, I only need to do the SEO on the ‘location’ page as all the multilocation pages load in that.
I was convinced I had to do the SEO for all 8k pages it has made.
I’m still struggling to understand why under the multilocation tool it has a section for the UK saying
1000 locations
8000 listingsOur website only has 4000 listings on it, not exact numbers but close enough so you can see what I mean.
Thanks again.
So it’s basically go through all the location pages and do it individually?
Thanks for the fast reply.
We use yoast for the SEO.
This reply has been marked as private.Regarding the location manager, I now understand how the locations get there and now that they get put into the sitemap.
What I don’t understand is that it lists 8000 in the UK when our website has just over 4000 listing in total.
4000 listings should be 4000 location listings and not 8000?
When we started the site we added all listings under the ‘places’ cpt but I exported all that data and broke it down into new cpt’s.
We stopped using ‘places’ could the multilocation part have each location entered twice?
Could that also explain why some don’t have slugs as they are old locations and actually have no listing for them?
OK thanks, I’ve not noticed that one and will keep checking in on the forum to see when they reply.
I’m guessing my website has so many ‘internal link’s’ due to it having so many pages/listings plus all the pages it will regard as location pages.
All pages link to the homepage plus to my cpt’s.
I think I understand now, all the locations link to my location page, they showed as 404 originally due to me not setting the location page up.
They now link to my location page and don’t show as a 404 error.
The location/category ones link and show the categories listed at that location but my location/ just link to a blank location page.
What are the locations for when they only link to blank pages? Or is it all to do with Google and the way it crawls my website.
Thanks.
I’ve just noticed that my multilocations has 3 countries listed.
United Kingdom with a total listing of 8000 listings.
Ireland with 1 listing.
Isle of Man with 2 listings.Could this be causing my Yoast sitemap to be listing locations and 404 error pages?
I’ve not added these locations myself and no idea how they ended up in the multilocation section, or does adding listings auto add locations in there?
This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.Also just noticed that google webmaster tool is saying that Crawl errors for desktop is at 12000, they are 404 errors.
That can’t be correct?
Listing URL prefix is also set as places, I dont use the CPT anymore though as I created my own.
Thanks for the reply, I have set geodirectory – permalinks include add location slug and add full location plus use category slug.
I have the WP settings – permalinks set to post name.
With the 2 being set different will it cause issues?
The yoast sitemap has a section for each category called location full site map, in that sitemap it has a list of location/category.
When I click on the link it’s almost as though it has saved searches done by us when we have been checking coverage for each category.
Google webmaster tolls says my homepage for example has 62,540 internal links to the page, when I select the links to see what its from I get a;
Not Found
This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?
It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?I’m so confused and I have no idea why these bad links are there.
Thanks
