SmartPPC Local Search Plug-in
The Local Search Plug-in lets you expand the search possibilities of your system. By putting the Local Search plug-in on your site your visitors will be able to search the Internet for businesses near a specified location: city or state. By providing modern search features for location files you will attract new visitors to your website and keep your old members in the system. The Local Search plug-in obtains results from Local.Yahoo.com and then displays search results to a visitor in accordance with the given graphic design.
How does it work?
After the Local Search Plug-in is integrated into your system, your visitors will see local search box on the page. To find business files they simply type search terms into the search box and click the "Search" button. The plug-in will find business files which have the search terms in the title, alt-text, etc. attributes. The visitor will receive a page with a list of businesses, including address, phone, along with map to display the location on it.
Visitor can “move” the map, it is possible with a help of the mouse or special buttons as a compass. To see on the map more detailed information, the map can be zoomed in and zoomed out, using the special buttons.
How to manage Local Search Plug-in?
In the Search tab of Administrator’s Control Panel a new "Search Type – Local" will be enabled after the Local Search Plug-in is installed. Here the Administrator can manage the following settings:
- Change title of the search type
- Create a description of the search type
- Adjust the search settings (number of audio search results per page etc.).
- Manage XML Feeds Settings
- Manage Organic Search Settings
- Manage various social functions
- Integrate graphic design into the local search page etc.
Additional Information
We use Local.Yahoo.com as a provider of content for Local Search. If you wish to use another local provider we can enable that for you. We can also offer you custom improvements to the Local Search plug-in. Please contact us for details.