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Directory – GeoDirectory – Province of Alicante

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The Directory Province of Alicante (Valencian Community) The GeoDirectory is one of the four core areas of altea.me. And it is one of the most important and powerful functions of my website. Here I describe the function and the added value compared to search engines or global directories. I find the GeoDirectory address directory at altea.me mega cool myself, detailed examples can be found here. 😉

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Advantage – Editorial directory

The altea.me GeoDirectory is filled editorially. This means that a person judges whether an address is really relevant. And whether the content of a website really describes what it claims to be. Often the text and the so-called meta tags of web sites are only optimized for search engines. They direct interested parties to their pages with fake meta titles and meta descriptions. Search engines then display their meta titles and meta descriptions on the result pages.

Wrong and misleading.

If the web site operator succeeds in deceiving Google and Co, a web site appears, which actually offers only medicines fast times with a search for pharmacies right at the top. That may not be nevertheless! Who looks for medicines, looks for medicines. And who wants to find pharmacies, that wants to see also only pharmacies with the results.

Naturally there are also offerers, who offer different products or services and therefore several times emerge. That would be ok, but these are few exceptions. The biggest annoyance when searching for me is the display of irrelevant results and sponsored ads that have nothing to do with my search. If you are looking for pharmacies on altea.me, you will find only pharmacies.

altea.me GeoDirectory is flexible

The altea.me GeoDirectory is so flexible due to its editorial concept that I can produce results that search engines could not even consider. For example, results for a search for the authorities of a district or a municipality. E.g. only the police stations or the fire departments, town halls, etc. The search can be further limited to the proximity to a place, a city. E.g. up to a radius of 3km, 5 km, 10 km, 15 km etc.

This is only possible because GeoDirectory allows me to edit the needs of search queries for the Province of Alicante. In all possible combinations and exactly co-ordinated with the requests of the Spaniards, residents and tourists living in the Province of Alicante. You only get real and relevant search results. None paid and none irrelevant, but well search engine optimized results.

Who wants already with the search for police stations at a place, because of a break-in also hotel offers. Holiday flats and real estates in the search results completely in front find. That annoys me personally at the search machine results still most. But it has become much better above all with Google. They work intensively to prevent that. Google is for me still, the best search engine. If you want to search anonymously, DuckduckGo is also a good alternative. This search engine does not collect any personal data and uses the Google data treasure, with good results, but anonymously. Kewl 😉

Advantage – limited to the Province of Alicante

The GeoDirectory of altea.me is spatially limited to the Province of Alicante / Valencian Community. The most exciting addresses are on the Costa Blanca. I also cover the inland and the mountain region of the province. But here the population density is lower than on the Costa Blanca. Accordingly there are fewer municipalities, shops, hotels or town halls – Anyway – since I myself live in Altea, in the middle of the province, I am particularly interested in the districts and cities here. And that is a great happiness. Because this amount of data of a few 100,000 addresses of a Spanish province make an editorial directory just manageable. In comparison to the addresses of the whole world, which are reserved for the big search engines (not editorially), this limited amount of data makes an editorially maintained local address directory possible.

Infinite flood of data

The “poor” search engines have to work on every web site in the world, on really every topic besides the addresses. Such an infinite flood of data could no longer be managed editorially, not even by Google. This only works with mechanized algorithms and many large data centers. And, depending on the search engine, it works sometimes well and sometimes less well. The constant struggle of the Google Algorithm creators against the SEO over- and mis-optimizers, who obtain front placements, is well known. Since here at altea.me I only want to consider the interests of residents, long-term holidaymakers and tourists in a Spanish province, the amount of data is further reduced. That's good, because a small blogger and website operator like me can't compete with the server farms of Google & Co. I don't want that and I don't have to.

Less is more

Because the amount of data required for good coverage of an area the size of the Province of Alicante can still be processed quickly enough on a dedicated server. That's just about affordable for a one-man show with a little Google Adsense advertising on the website.

The editorial work is more difficult to handle. The Spaniards say Poco a poco so beautifully. That must also be my motto. Less is more if the quality is right. My GeoDirectory will grow over time and complete itself. The main areas of health and authorities and service providers are already well covered. Soon the categories craftsmen and companies will start, then I will tackle the tourist topics. So please be patient and generous if your search topic is not yet covered.

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What is a GeoDirectory?

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The address directory of wpgeodirectory

AyeCode is the name of the manufacturer of the famous GeoDircectory PlugIn for WordPress. There is a free beginner version to try out. For the extremely powerful PlugIn AyeCode offers a variety of Power AddOns. This covers everything from multilocations and event management to invoicing, translation, etc., everything your heart desires.

The familiarization with the PlugIn for the use here at altea.me claimed and inspired me. The support is unique. That's why I applied for an Affilate Partnership. I only recommend Affilates on altea.me that I am 100% convinced of and whose articles I use myself. The GeoDirectory is in the front row. A further blog article is in progress.

How did I get to GeoDirectory? I had tried pretty much all available address directories for altea.me. Compared to GeoDirectory it was a waste of time. The others were illogical, complicated, unstable and expensive. In my opinion there is only one address directory plugin for WordPress that deserves its name and works really well. GeoDirectory has powerful functions, it is intelligent and logical, variably adaptable and well documented.

The forum and the 24h support of the competent and unexpectedly nice team even with beginner's questions are further reasons for the fact that it is used over 200,000 times. Also the price model for the Power AddOns is very interesting. The purchase of individual AddOns, which you need, is possible. Or a complete subscription of all AddOns with an attractive annual fee. The WordPress Ranking of the GeoDirectory PlugIn is top, of course, what else. Geodirectory is Editors Choice, the best WP Plug-In I use for altea.me. Have fun trying out the free version 😉

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Address Directory GeoDirectory – the Data Structure

There is no unnecessary data like technical manuals, shops, tests, magazines, blogs etc. in GeoDirectory. None of this blocks my database and makes it slow. There are only super categories, categories and individual entries relevant to the Province of Alicante. Super categories are e.g.: Health, tourism, authorities, utilities, craftsmen, shops, real estate etc..

A super category such as health, then contains categories such as: Pharmacies, doctors, hospitals, etc.. The super category Tourism contains analogous categories: Beaches, hotels, gastronomy, nightlife, attractions, etc. The same is true for the other main areas or super categories.

That's why the altea.me directory contains only addresses and additional information that are really important for Spanish residents, long-term holidaymakers and package tourists in the Province of Alicante. Online shops & Co. are falling flat. I attach great importance to the quality of the addresses. That's why addresses of address publishers are currently out of the question. That would be much faster to enter them. But altea.me does not only offer the pure address information. I verify the locations. The additional information offers the maximum of advance information, a real added value. Everything in one place on the Province of Alicante,

Directory Province of Alicante – The Content

The address of a location is included that's clear. But depending on the type of location there is a lot more information. For almost all locations there are fields for the phone number, the website, e-mail address, pictures, videos, links to the social media etc. In addition there is an integrated map – of course from Google Maps, the best map.

This offers powerful functions, such as the map view, terrain view, satellite view. There is also StreetView and a fantastic route planner from any location. For the route guidance you simply set the journey of your choice. By car, bike, on foot or public transport. The latter lists the arrival and departure times of buses and trains, if there is public transport at all. Very very cool.

Address Directory – Added value – Extra content

For shops, handicraft businesses, authorities and service providers, for example, the opening hours and vacation times still make sense.  This additional information is therefore geared to the type of location. They vary depending on the type of property. Because, a police station does not need to mention the number of bedrooms. But with a holiday home this does make sense. And also whether kids are welcome, pets allowed, a pool available etc. etc. etc… Yes, it is true, all this can be found on the relevant holiday home portals in a highly professional design.

But that is expensive. They only offer holiday homes and sell them to you for a commission. You don't see the commission, because usually the landlord has to pay it. Without it you could rent much cheaper. Here at altea.me there are no costs. Because it is only an address directory. We mediate nothing. If you are interested, simply contact the owner directly. You rent your next holiday domicile then usually far cheaper.

Address directory – Added value Intuitive search

A big advantage compared to a search engine is the Intuitive Search. Because you don't have to know exactly what you are looking for beforehand. And where and how you should search. The amount of data in an area limited by local and specific interests, such as the province of Alicante, is not comparable to what search engines have to manage. Therefore I can create completely different links and still deliver fast and super-relevant results.

Without annoying advertisements

No paid ads as a result, at the top and bottom of search results. And no SEO fake. That makes the results far more relevant. Because here not a webmaster of an irrelevant site who has done good SEO decides which results you get displayed. Or a marketing campaign of a company that pays a lot of money to be displayed at the top.  Only the relevance and correctness of the possible results in relation to the search query is decisive. And that's what I decide! According to a crystal-clear human-determined logic without external influence. And with some Low-Level AI (similar locations or which are nearby etc.)

Examples: You are looking for the address of a town hall in the province. Or the police stations processing N.I.E. applications. These are the police stations of the national police, not the Guadia Civil and not the local police. The links will take you to all city halls and police stations. Simply search for a city hall or police location of your choice. This shows you the added value of GeoDirectory's search on altea.me much better than I could ever explain.

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Directory Province of Alicante – Search methods

You can search for anything that comes to mind. It depends only on your preferred search strategies. Proceed in the way you prefer.

Search strategy by category

Select Main Area: These are a kind of “super categories”. Like e.g. health or authorities, tourism etc.. If you choose the super category Health you will find all hospitals, pharmacies, doctors, health centres or pharmacies with emergency services etc. You can list them alphabetically. And call the respective Detaille display.

Categories – these are the locations: e.g. hospitals, police stations or the pharmacy emergency service, etc. After selecting the “super category” Health you can now narrow down the results by location. E.g. only the pharmacies of the province. You will then get all over 800 pharmacies of the province listed from A-Z.

Places and counties: This allows you to further narrow down your search. Only the pharmacies in your district or only the pharmacies in your town. You can also select the distance radii for which your search should apply. 3 km, 5 km, 10 km etc. So. e.g. Altea and periphery 5 km. Of course with Google Maps map, terrain or satellite view. With zoom, streetview and directions on foot, bicycle, car or public transport.

Search strategy by location

With this search strategy you simply reverse the order. Now search first for the town or county. The result are all locations at this location. Now you narrow down by super category and category. Just as you like it.

The groundbreaking feature of GeoDirectory in the Province of Alicante is the free choice of search. Depending on your concerns and preferences, you choose the best search method for you. Because I don't push advertising results forward in altea.me search results, you only get relevant results. This is the advantage of an editorially created address directory. The 1 star hotel is displayed as far in front as the 5 star hotel if it matches the search query. Because with altea.me the position is not for sale. Only the relevance to the search query counts.

Example

Search by location. It is sufficient to enter a county or a town in the county of Alicante. Already you can see all locations at this location and in the vicinity. Finely sorted and presented by categories.  Now you can either choose a category directly or a super category.

The super category Health, contains e.g. categories like: Pharmacies, doctors, hospitals, outpatient care, etc.. Immediately you see how many pharmacies, doctors, hospitals etc. there are in each case in this place and the environment up to 7 km. In addition, all these locations are displayed on the right of an overview map and can be selected immediately. A Mouse Over over a pin on the map shows you the address in advance. A click on an entry that interests you brings you immediately to the detailed view with all available data to the location.

More examples of search strategies with GeoDirectory here, in this article.

Address Directory Province Alicante – the Software

I realized the address directory of the Province of Alicante with the powerful plugin WPGeoDirectory. Actually I was almost giving up. I had already tried too many other plugins before I came across GeoDirectory. Because the PlugIn is incredibly powerful. And I needed something to understand it well. But it is worth every effort and training time. Because it's also incredibly good. I don't know of any WordPress PlugIn that does anything similar. It's like a word processor. You know your way around and you know that there is 80% more to discover. Now I can finally implement my special requirements for a good address directory for the Province of Alicante.

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