Tristan O'Donnell
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Great thanks for the prompt reply.
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Hi Alex,
Thanks, I have done all that, I am looking to recreate the same results within the location switcher so users cannot be led to an ‘in’ city location page but to a ‘near’ city location page. The switcher does allow this but it predominately brings up ‘in’ suggestions which I would like to hide.
I have thought of a work-around but I would prefer to use the location switcher & location page if possible.
Thanks
Hi Alex,
I understand why the location pages are set up as they are but I think a lot of people searching wouldn’t expect to be bound by geographical boundaries of cities or regions and would therefore not realise they are not seeing listings which are only a few miles away when using the location page.
Thanks for your advice, this leads me to a possible solution. If I remove the location page from the menu I could make it work if I were able to amend the location switcher.
If you input near + “city” into the location switcher it brings up results with the distance parameters I have set. This is ideal but is there any way I can prevent or hide the “in” prompts from appearing in the location switcher? Can I make it so only “near” appears or at the very least can I change the placeholder to instruct users to type near + “city”? If this were possible users will discover all listings within a certain radius whether they use the search bar or the location switcher.
They will naturally input a location name but will see results which are not bound by being in that location only which will provide a much better user experience for what I am trying to achieve.
Thanks
Unfortunately, regions would not help in this case.
May I put this forward as a suggestion for future releases, I’m sure that it would prove valuable to many users to be able to choose to set a distance radius from a city to show within a location page. It seems to be half-way there with this being available in advanced search and the near me function. It just disappears if a visitor uses a location page.
Thanks
Ok thanks.
In a related topic, is there any way to set the location page to show listings “near” rather than “in”, similar to how the search can work?
I’m caught between the two as I have a lot of listings that strictly speaking belong to a village near a major town. If I allow them to reside under their actual location as a “city” they will then not show up in the location page of the nearest town (which may only be a mile or 2 away). The only way to make them do this is to set them as neighbourhoods of the town but I then run into the same problem as above with having to constantly be reviewing the cities, post submissions.
I’m trying to achieve maximum exposure for listings and also a discovery element for users, but if a user goes to a location page and cannot see a listing which is only a mile away as it is in a different “city” it takes away from what I am trying to achieve.
Showing listings on the location page within a certain radius rather than only those which share the location as the city address would be ideal.
Thanks
Is there no way to delete regions?
I’m using Google but it’s incorrect in setting Brighton & Hove as a region, it is a City within East Sussex and my site would be better suited using it that way. If I can delete the region there will be no confusion as no-one will be able to use it as a search option or when submitting a listing.
Thanks.
ok thanks
Hi Alex,
Thanks, I was wondering if it was possible to use the badge to perform the action as the badge would display “claim this listing” for unclaimed and “verified” for those claimed. That way I wouldn’t need a separate button.
I suppose it may not be possible as the badge link would have to know which listing it has come from?
Ok thanks
ok thank you
