Should We Use an SEO Plugin?

Hi Manish,

In response to your last remark:
It’s ok if page A contains a few listings that also can be found on page B, as page A and B function as an overview page that contains links to the individual listings. Google understands it’s an overview page. Ebay, YellowPages, etc have it the same way.

If both overview pages contain exactly the same listings, than it doesn’t make sense to offer these 2 pages to Google nor the user and de-indexing one would make sense.

Having e.g. 2 detail pages about the same business that contain exactly the same content would cause duplicate issues.

I guess you have more locations than just Jaipur. This would mean that jaipur/hotels and places/hotels don’t contain the same listings (whereas places/hotels contains all hotels and jaipur/hotels only those for Jaipur).

Tip: check your Google Webmaster Tools and run a free scan from ISS SEO tookit (from Microsoft)

i want to show this bug in geodirectory with this example

Open the demo site of wpgeo.directory and change the location from location switcher to australia -> new south wales -> Millers point

visit 4 star category in Hotels post type with this url which i bookmarked (http://wpgeo.directory/hotels/millers-point/4-stars/) in new tab)

Note: don’t close the browser

you find one hotel Heidelberg which is listed in this city in 4 stars category

Now close the browser and reopen and now paste this url (http://wpgeo.directory/hotels/millers-point/4-stars/) again

Note: dont open demo site first, paste this url in address bar

it will show you all hotels listed in 4 star category for a short span, till it redirect to the location nearest you. if the makers of geodirectory plugin disable the auto detection of user location they can find this bug.

i want to say if any user bookmarked a url for any category for easily access to visit that listings later and when he/she opens this site with bookmarked link and find all results instead of that specific location then what is the sense.

Hi Manish, I believe the latest version has fixed this, I can’t find a way to generate the link that you have saved, the link is now…

http://wpgeo.directory/hotels/australia/new-south-wales/millers-point/4-stars/

This is a great addition. One thing I’ve noticed though is when I got to a category or subcategory page without a location specified, e.g., Restaurants at the http://www.example.com/restaurants/, looks like the default location gets pulled into the title tag, same as if you were viewing that page with a location explicitly set.

Would like to see that not included, or better, have a default setting. Since all my locations are within a county designation, I’d default all to “Restaurants – Some County | SiteName” and specific locations would then take on their location, “Restaurants – MyCity – MyRegion | SiteName”

Unfortunately, I’m not sure how to modify the code to get that.

cheers

This is based on the Yoast SEO plugin and the additional code for pulling in location details, so probably doesn’t show up on the demo at all.

@manish,

Ok, I see. I’ll try that, cheers.

I’ve got a problem with this that I hope someone can help me with.

In the list view where listings from multiple cities are displayed, the %%current_location%% value is including the first city listed in the title for Yoast.

How can we we have it just use the region for list/search?

ex:
http://www.rinktime.com/rinks/tags/united-states/california/adult-ice-hockey-tournaments/

%%current_location%% should just be “California” instead of “Santa Rosa California”

Thoughts? Thanks in advance.

Here’s the code I’m currently using:

// Add location info to yoast titles start
function retrieve_var1_replacement( $var1 ) {

        global $post;

        if ($post->post_city) {
                $city = $post->post_city;
        }
        if ($post->post_region) {
                $region = $post->post_region;
        }
        if ($post->post_country) {
                $country = $post->post_country;
        }

        if (isset($city) && !empty($city)) {
                $location = $city . " ";
        }
        if (isset($region) && !empty($region)) {
                $location .= $region;
        }
        //if (isset($country) && !empty($country)) {
        //      $location .= " - " . $country;
        //}

        return $location;
}

function geodir_add_dyn_yoast_title_tags() {
                wpseo_register_var_replacement( '%%current_location%%', 'retrieve_var1_replacement', 'advanced', 'Adds location to title tags' );
 }
 add_action( 'wpseo_register_extra_replacements', 'geodir_add_dyn_yoast_title_tags' );
// Add location info to yoast titles end

Thanks Stiofan,

Any way to exclude the country? It’s adding too much length to the title tags… I’d also prefer abbreviated state/region/province names for the same reason and in the U.S. when people search on a city, state combo they use the abbreviated version more than half the time.