Paolo
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We’ll need wp admin and FTP credentials to debug this.
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When you are geolocated, your url should show site.com/location/me.
Make sure to clear your browser GeoLocation settings or try with another browser.
I tested your website and I was redirected correctly.
Let us know,
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Rankings are all about content, backlinks and now dwell time is becoming more and more important.
The site structure is more about being easily crawled and indexed, but also for UX.
If hierarchy is not logical, user may get easily confused. (I have a good article to link too https://neilpatel.com/blog/site-structure-enhance-seo/)
You can have the best short URL of all, but if the content is not very good, you have few backlinks and a high bouncing rate, Google will not rank you in top positions.
While if you have long URLs, but also the best content, a lot of backlinks and users stay on your pages for longer than average, you will be ranked high.
The problem is that if you have a messy URL structure, a lot of your pages may not even get crawled, if you don’t have a sitemap.
Also please read what they recommend on that ahrefs article below the URL Lenght chapter:
Recommendation
Even though we did see a small correlation here with preference towards shorter URLs, I don’t believe this is a significant enough ranking factor.
I do recommend you to keep your URLs short, but mostly for user experience reasons and not because this will help you rank higher.
Even for UX, I think it is clearer this:
site.com/places/united-states/california/san-francisco/restaurants/gusteau/
rather than this:
site.com/places/gusteau/
On the 1st case from the URL you’ll know that we are talking about a restaurant in San Fran.
The second doesn’t tell as much.
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Hi Ashish,
if you creating recurring prices within GeoDirectory Pricing Manager, the system will create subscriptions and unless users cancel the subscription, they will be automatically charged when their subscription is due to renew.
This works the same with PayPal or Stripe.
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My 10 years of experience working in the SEO field, if using the Location Manager, would make me ONLY use this option:
Full location with category -> site.com/places/united-states/pennsylvania/philadelphia/attractions/sample-place/
That is by far the best option for Google as you are giving it a hierarchical structure that will allow it to easily crawl all parts of your URL.
site.com/places/united-states/pennsylvania/philadelphia/attractions/
site.com/places/united-states/pennsylvania/philadelphia/
site.com/places/united-states/pennsylvania/
site.com/places/united-states/
site.com/places/If your directory covers only 1 country, you can hide that from the URL.
Omitting the location in the URL IMHO would be counterproductive for local SEO.
Just my 2 cents, I’m sure someone will disagree, however I’m not going to try and convince anyone. SEO is not a science, only thorough testing can give you good answers and I’ve been testing GD permalinks structures since 2014.
Cheers,
GeoLocation only redirects to /location/ page. You need to use Search Near Me to have listings near you appear with the listings page/search page format.
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please provide a link and admin credentials and we will check. Possibly also provide FTP credentials, we might need it.
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Hi,
we would need a link to see what you mean. Probably it can be removed with options or with CSS.
Let us know,
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Normally there is no underline, so it’s probably your theme css creating a conflict, if you give us a link, we’ll check for you.
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Hi,
that’s what it does, check our demo.
if there are listing near you within the radius that you set, you-ll see this URL>
yoursite.com/location/me/if there are no listings it redirects you to the closest location to your position that has listings, example:
yoursite.com/location/united-states/texas/houston/
If you don’t have the map widget added to the location page, then it will not show places on a map.
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HI,
setting for that is in GeoDirectory > Advanced Search > Redirect Settings On First Time Load:
Redirect to nearest location (on first time load users will be auto geolocated and redirected to nearest geolocation found) and below Ask user if they wish to be geolocated
I’ve activated them for you.
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Beaver Builder lite is free and it provides plenty of excellent features. Just FYI
For sure it hasn’t been tested as thoroughly as we through we did.
We’ll make sure to make amend in next beta release.
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Hi Alex,
Last time I tested beaver builder was working fine.
Let us know how it goes,
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Paolo: The only documentation is the blog post. I have installed it via the update process and installed the LMV2 manually.
Because there is no change compared to LM V1 other than how settings page look. Documentation remain the same of V1.
The install via the GD-Extensions was not possible. Was saying that I have a “Beta” version, but you removed already beta and now also the RC from GDv2.
It’s written in the blog post that you can only install manually, the install from extension part will be made avail in due time :
The location manager V2 can be installed manually, by uploading the zip file from the plugins page of your WordPress dashboard.
IF WP Easy Updates is updated to its latest version (wpeasyupdates 1.1.6), you can Enable the settings in GeoDiretory V2 to allow the install of BETA Add-ons.
At that point you will be able to update from the Location Manager V1 to V2 BETA automatically.
Effect also: You cannot access any place.
What do you mean?
Not tested the plugin?
Plugin has been tested for over 5 weeks, few bugs are to be expected.
And Paolo your pic about the location switcher in the blog post looks buggy as there are all locations twice in the list.
Thanks for spotting that, I corrected it.
