-I look for places near a local tourism region but I get results ordered by the distance from another location 10000 km away (unfortunately another region with the same name in Colombia)

Is there a way to exclude the unwanted locations from the search results? or override the search by adding the location/region by default?

I tried the following without success:

-GD>Multilocations>Location Settings. Enabling selected countries or region

-GD>Multilocations>Add Edit Location. I created a new location and I called it with the term I wanted to replace in the search.

Could you please suggest a solution?

Thanks

Thanks for the quick reply.

I also tried that and I still have the same problem

results are order by distance from the location entered.

“Salento Puglia” works, because for Google Maps “Salento” as a tourist region doesn’t exist.

In fact, if in Google Maps (.it) itself you search for “Salento” it will return as only result a city near Salerno : https://www.google.it/maps/place/84070+Salento+SA/@40.2484681,15.1908607,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x133ead16bb767859:0xf1f18e9e18088b36

If you use Google Maps .com, it will return a city in Colombia as first result.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Salento,+Quindio/@4.594645,-75.51396,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x8e3892bcedc420e5:0x8f81edeeadd699ba

Only by searching Salento Puglia Google Maps is able to recognize the area, only because there are places with Salento in their name located in that area:

https://www.google.it/maps/search/salento+puglia/@41.0080599,16.7272393,8z/data=!3m1!4b1

We would have to ask Google Maps to modify their databases to fix this… 🙁

Sorry about it,

the reason why it’s returning results from colombia is (probably) because you are using everywhere location.

In that case the search is performed worldwide.

Example:

1 if I search Monument near salento here: http://wpgeo.directory/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_place&s=monument&snear=salento&sgeo_lat=4.633333299999999&sgeo_lon=-75.56666669999998

It will give me the same result as in your website.

But if I select one of the locations (new york for example) before searching, you will get no results found, as it will work as expected.

Now if you are using country restrictions, it shouldn’t search everywhere in the world, but only in those countries. Ive checked on our demo and unfortunately it doesn’t.

I’ll refer to Vikas so that he can improve the script.

Thank you!

I did solve this little glitch by redirecting the search results, just by using a 302 and a list of common keywords used in the search.

I’m not a developer and I know you are already very busy working on GD, but I think it would be really good to override google sometimes.

Something like being able to redirect some search results according to our needs, I’m not asking for a new plugin, I would be happy even with few lines of code.

For example If I use New York as a location in http://wpgeo.directory/

I’m looking for a tavern near Canal Street Subway station, so I just write “Tavern” and “Canal Street” OR “Canal St”.

As result I’m getting one of your test listings Gramercy Tavern, but the distance is calculated from Canal Street in Brattleboro, VT, 160 miles away.

Thanks for the support,
Marco