Greetings. I have regions enabled and it correctly adds state, county, city to the system when i add a listing, but how does that benefit anything? I am not sure of its purpose unless it has some SEO usage or it can be linked to specific listings, like /state/county/city/listing to create a listing at the end of the hierarchy. I guess I am hoping that we can do it that way and if not how can i effectively put regions to good use?
Hi,
If you do not have the regions feature enabled, you will only have a radius-based search. For example, if you search for a city, the search will show you all listings in that city (counting from its center and based on the radius you set in the settings). If you have regions enabled, the search will be performed by the city’s administrative area, even if the city is not round. If you have a website where users always search by the exact address, then you may not need regions but note that this feature is always a plus for search.
Also, if we talk about SEO, the regions feature generates public pages for each region, and you can add regions as a filter in the Listings Block using a PHP snippet; then, region pages can be made for SEO, for example, “Some services in Chicago.”
I hope this is helpful to you.