Location or Places

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  • March 27, 2019 at 3:58 pm #476685

    John Overend
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    We should have worked this out before, but we’re seeing confusion in serps between ‘places’ and ‘location.

    A search for ‘Motoring Directory Essex’ will see the location page show up (which we haven’t modified) instead of what we would like which is the ‘places’ page (which we have).

    Essentially, the two different pages are the same, which isn’t good. Any suggestions on resolving it?

    John

    March 27, 2019 at 8:26 pm #476740

    Kor
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    hi John,

    Thanks for your reply. I believe that can be adjusted using an SEO plugin. Or try redirecting the location page to places.

    March 27, 2019 at 8:31 pm #476743

    Alex Rollin
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    Also, can you say more about what you mean?

    If you have only one post type, the two pages, location and the places archive can be very similar.

    Have you considered adding additional items to the location page template to make it distinctive?

    GD Location Description, for example, or GD Listings with featured listings only?

    How are your visitors getting to the location page?

    March 28, 2019 at 6:51 am #476810

    John Overend
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    Search is delivering results for both places and location. A search for Motoring Directory Essex, for example, brought up the location version yesterday (although this morning it’s places), with others we have already set up doing the same.

    There is only one CPT, so before we start playing with canonicals (although I’m not sure that will work for a category rather than a url) or 301s, I wondered if it was something you’d already accounted for in the core setup as it seems an obvious potential duplicate content problem.

    March 28, 2019 at 7:30 am #476814

    Kor
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    Hi John,

    Thanks for your reply. Are you referring to both links shown in Google search as shown in the attached screenshot?

    This one https://www.carsuk.net/location/essex/ actually goes the list of listing that are available in essex.

    And this one https://www.carsuk.net/places/essex/grays-thurrock/ target’s the “Grays Thurrock” city.

    Both seem different.

    March 28, 2019 at 7:43 am #476822

    John Overend
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    No, the results you see are what I saw yesterday, although this morning, from my location in a private browser, that search goes shows https://www.carsuk.net/places/essex/, which is where we’d expected, and want, it to go when we set it up.

    Essentially, with one CPT, a chunk of the location pages and places pages are the same. For example:

    https://www.carsuk.net/location/essex/grays-thurrock/
    is effectively the same as
    https://www.carsuk.net/places/essex/grays-thurrock/
    and
    https://www.carsuk.net/location/essex/
    is effectively the same as
    https://www.carsuk.net/places/essex/

    We should have worked this out, but it will cause serps confusion.

    March 28, 2019 at 3:13 pm #476912

    Alex Rollin
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    Some members have chosen to noindex URLs that they don’t need.
    The page content can be different, though. Looks like you have adjusted the Titles and Metas, then add location description to set the location page apart from the category description (shown on a CPT category archive).

    We have a section on this page about addressing challenges for SEO
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/faq/seo/

    March 28, 2019 at 8:38 pm #476970

    John Overend
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    Thanks for the suggestions Alex.

    John

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