How can I default searches to UK towns?

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  • October 7, 2014 at 1:32 pm #17683

    getawaydigital
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    I have populated this simple testbed site with a number of entries based around the town of Weymouth UK

    For a number of towns near to Weymouth I can carry out searches e.g. Hotels Weymouth , Hotels Dorchester, Hotels Lyme Regis and all return results fine showing distance of the hotels from the place being searched from no problem.

    However if I search Hotels Portland , a town near to Weymouth no results are found. Changing to Portland UK all works just as it should do.

    I am guessing this is maybe something to do with Portland being a major city in The USA whereas the other nearby places aren’t. Is it possible to make changes so that all searches default to UK/

    Cheers

    Andy

    October 7, 2014 at 1:44 pm #17685

    getawaydigital
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    Sorry url is http://2014.love-weymouth.co.uk

    October 7, 2014 at 2:13 pm #17687

    Simone
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    Hello, I’ve made a test on my website setting as Default city “United Kingdom” in Geodirectory/Multicity, then if I search for Hotel portland I can see the test listing. (previously i was able to do that by searching for “hotel” in “portland, uk”. You can test it out here

    October 7, 2014 at 2:16 pm #17688

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    Hi Andy,

    If you directory is limited to the UK then the api searches should be limited to the uk also. under General>Searh you can also tag a UK tag on to the end of the api query if you want.

    Please let us know your site address so we can take a look.

    Thanks,

    Stiofan

    October 7, 2014 at 3:15 pm #17693

    getawaydigital
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    Hi Simone and Stiofan I just added UK as suggested by Stiofan and all now seems to be fine, may thanks for such swift response guys, Andy

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