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  • August 22, 2017 at 12:32 pm #392290

    Vlad Chirila
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    Hi there,

    one question this time:

    Is it possible to add extra location besides Country/Region & City? Like district or something?

    Example: In Romania we have:
    Country: Romania
    Region: Municipiul Bucuresti
    City: Bucuresti
    I would like to add extra item: “District”, because the city in the example above is diveded into 6 districts.

    Thank you,
    Vlad

    August 22, 2017 at 1:36 pm #392302

    Guust
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    Yes, you can. Look at GD > Multilocations > Location settings tab: Wish to enable neighbourhoods ?

    Thanks

    August 22, 2017 at 4:45 pm #392342

    Vlad Chirila
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    That would be great! Yes I think so, I would like to have a more complete location. Let me clear that up a bit.

    What I have now:
    https://thebeautyadviser.com/beautysalons/romania/bucuresti/beauty-salons/abstract-studio/

    What I would like to have ( so I do not have to make way to many categories and subcategories to replace this below):

    https://thebeautyadviser.com/beautysalons/romania/bucuresti/Sector-6/Militari/beauty-salons/abstract-studio/

    How can I do this? Will activating neighborhoods help?

    Thanks!

    August 22, 2017 at 4:52 pm #392344

    Paolo
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    After the city you can have the neighbourhood and the category or subcategory.

    Sector-6/Militari

    What is sector-6 and what is militari?

    Thanks

    August 22, 2017 at 5:09 pm #392351

    Vlad Chirila
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    Sector 6 is one of the 6 Districts that Bucharest has. Militari is a neighborhood.

    How can I put these in the listings location, so it will appear in the urls for better SEO.

    Thanks,
    Vlad

    August 22, 2017 at 5:11 pm #392352

    Paolo
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    hi,

    you can only have :

    city/neighborhood

    So you can only have 1 or the other.

    Thanks

    August 22, 2017 at 5:20 pm #392354

    Vlad Chirila
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    one of them whould be great!

    Can you please guide me to set this neighborhoods up? I tried to activate it, but I don’t find a neighborhood field in the listings page to fill in. Where should I look for it after I activate it (from GD > Multilocations > Location settings tab)?

    thanks!

    August 22, 2017 at 5:26 pm #392356

    Paolo
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    After activating it, you can start adding the Neighborhoods from MultiLocation > Manage Locations.

    Google Maps doesn’t pass that info, so they must be created in advance.

    Thanks

    August 22, 2017 at 7:00 pm #392394

    Vlad Chirila
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    Great! I did activate it, I am starting to use it. But let me ask you, even though I activated it, I modified a listing and marked the new location neighborhood for it, but when I go to that listing I cannot see the neighborhood in the url, nor in any other place.

    Isn’t it suppose to appear in the url?

    thanks

    August 23, 2017 at 3:52 pm #392532

    Paolo
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    Neighborhood should appear in URL, if you provide admin credentials we’ll check what’s wrong.

    Thanks

    August 25, 2017 at 8:37 am #392826

    Vlad Chirila
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    No longer needed.
    I will use from now on places categories and subcategories for better seo.

    Regarding this, what I would like to ask you:

    How can I prevent location page urls and categories and subcategories urls to cannibalize themselves? Is there a certain setting in GeoDirectory that can help me prevent this?

    Thanks,
    Vlad

    August 25, 2017 at 11:23 am #392844

    Guust
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    How can I prevent location page urls and categories and subcategories urls to cannibalize themselves?

    What do you mean? All URL settings are at GD > Permalinks.

    Location pages by default have this URL: /location/country/region/city or shorter than.
    Category pages start with /custom-post-type-name/category

    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/layout/#directory

    August 25, 2017 at 11:33 am #392846

    Vlad Chirila
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    Let’s say I will modify a category name from “Beauty Salons” to “Romania” – this is a change I will have to do in the following days, to rename the existing categories & add new ones also. So If I will have a category named “Romania” and I will also have a Location named “Romania” they both will appear in the url’s they belong to. Each of these 2 words will describe a web page on my website.

    I know that it is better not to have a category and a tag named identically. What about web pages? How will Google know which page to crawl? How will I show the search engines which of these 2 pages have a bigger priority?

    That’s what I meant with cannibalizing.

    Hope I was coherent with my phrases.

    August 25, 2017 at 11:42 am #392848

    Guust
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    The Romania [country] page will have a URL like /location/romania and will show all listings that have been added in the country Romania.
    The Romania [category] page will have a URL like /places/romania-1 and will show all listings that have been categorised in the category Romania.
    Google will crawl both pages, and decide which has the better content somehow.

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