Overview
The Store Locator is one of the most powerful tools for improving your website’s SEO while also enhancing your customers’ ordering experience by making the process quick and seamless.
While there are several standalone store locator products available, the advantage of using Appfront’s Store Locator is its deep integration with your business operations. You get a centralized solution- everything managed in one place, fully aligned with your workflows.
How Does it help to my SEO?
Updating more fields and sections in your Google My Business profile can significantly improve your SEO performance.
See Google My Business fields:
Adding Store Locator will help improve SEO by doing the following:
Sync your Store hours, naming and address:
Integrated with Google Maps:
Appfront's store locator pinned your business inside Google maps
Have an Updated Image for your restaurants
Add high-quality pictures to your Google Business Profile. Show your restaurant's interior and your most popular dishes. In our experience, unless you're a fine dining restaurant, you don't need a fancy photoshoot. Pictures taken from your phone are fine, as long as they're clear and taken with good lighting. So, don’t overthink this.
One Centralised Ordering Funnel
Don't have broken links, i.e. a broken funnel. You need a store locator that can handled ALL type of orders in one place - pickup, delivery, Catering
Streamline the Ordering flow with less steps!
Connect your "Order Online" button to redirect directly to your store locator
How to Set up the Store Locator?
Option 1: Add a CNAME for your store locator and redirect
Add the store locator link under the CNANE:
order.yourwebsite.com/find-location/?servingOptionType=pickup/
Option 2: Use Embed Kit Store Locator
The Embed Kit allow you to have the store-locator under an iFrame
Under the Design Tab -> Go to "Embed Kit" and copy the code to your website.
