Getting started with Self Serve Locator + Pages

    Understand the concept and benefits of Self Serve L+P

    Last updated on June 6th, 2023

    This is article serves as the "Go-To Collection" of articles when it comes to the Locator + Pages implementation. The listed articles are ordered in a chronological way, so starting with the first will guide you through the journey of L+P.



    Getting to know Locator + Pages

    Before you dive into the depths of Locator + Pages, please check out the following articles under "Getting to know Locator + Pages" first. They provide a great overview and start at the very beginning.


    What is embedded Locator + Pages?

    The Embedded Locator + Pages is a plug-and-play widget that displays a full-featured store finder on your website and integrates directly with the Uberall platform. It gives you a single point of control over your location data and a simple process for updating your online presence...

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    How to set up Locator + Pages?

    The following article explains how to set up Locator + Pages within our Platform. It also provides an overview of the articles needed to complete the L+ P implementation.

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    Locator + Pages components

    The Locator + Pages widget is composed of two main components – Locator and Pages:

    • The Locator is a map view of locations
    • The Pages are specific landing pages for each location

    Further components are the Header and Footer. The Locator widget can be embedded in the HTML code of every website. In the following sections the elements of each component are explained more in-depth...

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    Implement the Locator + Pages Widget

    To start the implementation of the Locator & Pages widget into your website, you need to have access to manage pages on your web server. The Locator & Pages widget needs to be either added to an existing HTML page or to a new HTML page.

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    Customization

    Edit Locator + Pages

    This article will help you to customize the Locator and Pages widget to fit your needs.

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    Customizations of Locator + Pages via CSS

    Some aspects of customization are not natively available in the Locator + Pages product. This article shows how to do so using css styles...

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    Filters

    Filters for Locator + Pages

    This article provides an overview on what to know about filters for the Locator + Pages product.

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    Custom Filters for Locator + Pages

    Out of the box, the Locator + Pages product allows for filters to be determined based on the Services associated to locations. The utility of Advanced Filters is to expand the filtering possibilities to custom values, values that are not necessarily meant to be shared with external directories.

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    Photos & Videos

    Photos & Videos in Locator + Pages

    Information on options and format of photos and videos in Locator + Pages.

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    Analytics

    Locator + Pages Analytics

    This article gives an overview of what is possible regarding tracking and analytics of the Locator + Pages product.

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    Hashbangs (#!)

    What is a Hashbang (#!)

    Imagine you have a long document opened in a browser that shows a table of content. If you want to jump to a specific part of that document you can do that with the help of anchors. If the author of that document added certain anchors inside it you can navigate to them with a hash at the end of the url, e.g.

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    How to remove Hashbangs (#!) from Locator URLs

    The Hashbangs are by default part of the URL if you like to remove these for a cleaner URL structure you have to set a so called wildcard route for the Pages of the Locator. Once the Locator + Pages widget implementation is complete and working as expected, the hashbang (#!) can be removed.

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    SEO and Indexing

    How to achieve best performance and SEO for Locator + Pages?

    This article holds a summary of topics to consider, when focused on SEO and Locator + Pages.

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    How to index pages of Locator + Pages

    Indexed pages will show up in search results when deemed by Google to have enough quality for relevant search phrases so organic traffic will be driven to your site. Your pages can be found by search crawlers (like Google spiders) and indexed.

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    How to prevent indexing of Locator + Pages

    This article will go over two methods for preventing your Locator + Pages from being indexed by search engines.

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    Why should URL Redirects be set when moving to the Locator + Pages solution?

    This article explains, why it's important to set up redirects when migrating from a former Locator to the Locator + Pages product.

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    Tips to improve Locator + Pages

    Page performance and indexing are things to look out for with any web page. The idea is to make sure the content is readily available to the user on the page itself and that it can also be found as fast as possible with a search engine.

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    Recommendations

    Multi-Language Locator + Pages

    The possibility to display location data in multiple languages allows our customers to think global and target locally. This is a great addition especially if you are an Enterprise customer, with a global website in multiple languages, or if you are located in a country with more than one official language (e.g. Belgium or Switzerland).

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