Add Region as Listing

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  • November 2, 2019 at 4:24 am #515646

    Sangita Dixit
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    How can I add an area or region or country or city as a listing? eg. I want to add Whole New Delhi as a listing. Now New Delhi should appear when I search for India.

    I should also be to define the radius of this area. eg. 100 KM around this area and this whole area would be a listing.

    November 2, 2019 at 4:48 am #515650

    Alex Rollin
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    Hello,

    city (with region and country) is added automatically when you add a listing with an address.

    Usually you want to search for something IN New Delhi, not the city itself, no?

    November 2, 2019 at 4:55 am #515655

    Sangita Dixit
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    Let us take a scenario. I want to add “Incredible India” as a Destination listing. Now, where should I place the address of this listing? This is an area, region, and country also.

    November 2, 2019 at 5:08 am #515657

    Alex Rollin
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    Perhaps the head office of the campaign?

    November 2, 2019 at 5:20 am #515659

    Sangita Dixit
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    Yes, obviously head office at New Delhi. But thing is that coverage of this destination would be the whole country.
    Now after pointing the head office to New Delhi, I want to add another destination as “Mumbai”.
    And I want that when anyone searches at “location” like India, he should get “Incredible India” and “Mumbai” as two search results. Is this even possible with GeoDirectory?

    November 2, 2019 at 7:49 am #515666

    Sangita Dixit
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    I think GeoDirectory does not search in Parent Category.

    Okay, let me try to explain once again. With a clear example:

    In my country India, there is a state called is Madhya Pradesh. Jabalpur and Indore are cities of this state.

    Please visit at https://destinations.softinator.com/destinations/

    Here, let us put values in “Near” field and click on the search button.

    When I search for Madhya Pradesh I get four results here:

    Madhya Pradesh Search

    When I search “Jabalpur” in the location field:
    Jabalpur Search

    While searching, GeoDirectory skipped an important result “MP Tourism”:
    https://destinations.softinator.com/destins/mp-tourism/

    Although it is the state of this city. Means it is the parent destination (state authority) of this child destination (city authority).

    Similarly, in every search of any Indian city, GeoDirectory is skipping the most important search result (Incredible India):
    https://destinations.softinator.com/destins/incredible-india/

    I am wondering how to deal with such a scenario? What strategy should I take while creating categories? Or do you suggest anything else?

    November 3, 2019 at 4:06 pm #515755

    Alex Rollin
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    Hello,

    when doing a ‘near’ search for a location the results are restricted by the distance in the settings. You can adjust that to get more results.

    GD – Settings – General (tab) – Search (subtab) – Show Advanced – Search near radius

    If you search for “India” the results will be gathered from the ‘center’ lat/lon of India (in your site’s location database within the “Search near radius” of that point.

    November 3, 2019 at 5:06 pm #515764

    Sangita Dixit
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    After clearing the cache it just works! Thanks, Alex for your precious suggestion.

    November 4, 2019 at 2:49 pm #515889

    Alex Rollin
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    Excellent!

    Try turning off cache until you finish setup of your site.

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