Hello, I have a boat site with integrated BANS store. Since boats are pretty expensive to ship I want to target specific areas. The location of the boat is often not stated in the title so I cant just create a search query in the category. How can I create a store page with the boats only located in California as an example. Every time I search I get the url www.domain.com/search. Thanks in advance, Jonas
I think you may need to wait for BANS 3.0, I believe it will allow you to target geographic areas. Should be coming out soon, I hope.
The search mechanism is poorly done in BANS in my opinion. The search form is done via POST instead of a GET, so you can't create URLs that invoke the search function. Not only is it frustrating for creating links, which naturally means PPC ads as well, it also means that you get a bunch of /search/ pages that show up in Google Analytics with no real idea of what was searched. I ended up hacking the code to show me (see my niche site link for details), but it is a hack.
I totally agree - they also get cached in Webmaster (especially with duplicate and "short" META description/title errors)