Listing in Menu and Link in Sitemap

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  • November 22, 2018 at 1:56 pm #455469

    Jay Kanabar
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    I have 2 different resultant pages when they should be the same:
    Menu link for gd_place shows a list that is different to the link in the XML Sitemap (Yoast).
    I have obviously not set up something correctly.
    More details are provided in the private message.
    Any help will be much appreciated.
    Regards.
    Jay

    November 22, 2018 at 2:02 pm #455470

    Jay Kanabar
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    November 22, 2018 at 2:55 pm #455478

    Alex Rollin
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    all tennis clubs may be clubs, so they may have the same content at this time, but /tennis-clubs/ is a category archive, whereas /clubs/ is a post archive. If you add more categories then /clubs/ will still show the new listings, but f they are in /new-category/ they will show at /club/new-category/ not /clubs/tennis-clubs/

    November 22, 2018 at 5:55 pm #455502

    Jay Kanabar
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    Thanks, Alex for your response.

    The front end menu shows the listing of all clubs but the Yoast sitemap.xml also shows the category archive. I do not want Google to follow duplicate content links. So what is the recommended way to set up so that Google bots follow Post or category archive? I think the listing on the front end can only be set to the post archive.

    Maybe this is a Yoast issue.

    November 22, 2018 at 6:02 pm #455504

    Alex Rollin
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    That is a Yoast issue. Our recommendation would be to add some listings (content) to a different category of the /clubs/ CPT.

    November 23, 2018 at 12:48 pm #455598

    Jay Kanabar
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    I understand: “Our recommendation would be to add some listings (content) to a different category of the /clubs/ CPT.”
    But how do you link CPT to the “Listing” menu?

    Please see https://tennisreferrals.com/unitedkingdom/clubs/
    This is a link based on Post Archive. But how do you link a menu item to the Category Archive?

    November 23, 2018 at 1:35 pm #455602

    Kor
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    Hi Jay,

    Thanks for your reply. You can create a custom navigation menu with custom links to your Category Archive and link it back to GD https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/themes-creating-a-menu/ . Then, here is how to insert a CPT link to your navigation menu.

    Thanks!

    December 15, 2018 at 4:20 pm #458753

    Jay Kanabar
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    Thanks, Kor, for that help.

    The question I have now is should a Post or Category Archive be used in the menu?

    For testing purposes, I created both a Post Archive (Under the menu Listing) and a Category Archive (under the menu List2), which are both dynamically generated pages by the WP Geodirectory. However, the Category Archive allows introductory text (recommended 300 words) for the SEO purposes but the list is pushed down.

    Will the SEO for this page be adversely affected if I have, say, only 50 words?

    Does Google take into account the words in the list of clubs in the 300 recommended words per page?

    The confusion is how does WPGeodirectory meet SEO requirements when pages are dynamically generated?

    Admin Login details remain the same as above.
    Much appreciate any help.
    Jay

    December 15, 2018 at 5:40 pm #458759

    Kor
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    Hi Jay,

    Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, we are not SEO experts and we can’t really provide accurate answers your SEO questions. But I’m just going to forward this to a developer for a second opinion.

    Thanks!

    December 15, 2018 at 9:32 pm #458762

    Jay Kanabar
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    The question is about optimising dynamically generated WPGeodirectory pages/

    December 16, 2018 at 11:01 am #458821

    Alex Rollin
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    You can add original content to each of those pages, so, if you want the best results, you should add as much original content as possible, including perhaps even selected blog posts with the same category or location.

    You can use the location description or category top description or category top + location description, plus of course all the SEO settings in Locations or using Yoast.

    Those are the options you can use to give your pages the best boost possible.

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