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jonyo [Clear All Subdomains]
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 This option specifies that use of sub-domain for locations is turned on, and any configured sub-domains will be used for links in Geographic Navigation.  Any location that has a sub-domain configured for it, will use that sub-domain to browse listings for that location.  If a geographic location does not have a subdomain configured, it will use cookies to determine what geographic location to display based on what location the user has navigated to.
+==== Force full sub-domain for listings? ====
+Setting **added in version 7.4.0**((See bug 1014)), previous versions will not have this option.
+This check-box will become available when [[#Sub Domain Usage]] is set to **enabled**.
+If this option is checked, when a visitor goes to a specific listing, it will make sure the sub-domain matches the region for that listing, using a 301 redirect.  This can help with SEO as it removes any duplicate content that may happen otherwise.
+In addition, if the SEO addon is enabled, the SEO addon will include the full subdomain in all re-written links for individual listings.  This applies to everywhere that the SEO addon would normally re-write the URL, including the RSS feed.
+<tip c w>**Warning:**  Turning this on will make the visitor automatically select a listing's full region when they view a listing.  This may not be expected by the visitor, if for instance, they are browsing listings at the top level, click on a listing.  After that point, any pages they go to will be filtered by the region set for the listing.
+Because of this behavior, we only recommend turning this option on for sites that are primarily "region based" where your visitors will typically want to only view listings "close to them".</tip>
 ==== Sub Domain Settings ====
-If the [[#Sub Domain Usage]] setting is set to anything besides **Not Used**, you will be able to configure what sub-domain is used for each geographic navigation region, on the admin page [[admin_menu/addons/geographic_navigation/regions/start|Addons > Geographic Navigation > Regions]].  When viewing regions on that page, just click **Edit Sub-Domain** for any of the built in Countries or States/Provinces.  Or click **Edit** to edit the sub-domain for any of the regions below that.
+If the [[#Sub Domain Usage]] setting is set to anything besides **Not Used**, you will be able to configure what sub-domain is used for each geographic navigation region, on the admin page [[admin_menu/geographic_setup/regions/start|Geographic Setup > Regions]], by editing the **unique name** for each region.  When viewing regions on that page, just click **Edit** for any of the regions to edit the unique name (used for the subdomain).
 ==== Auto-Set Subdomains ====
-Clicking on this button will automatically set the sub-domain for every country, every state/province, and every geographic nav region.  For countries and states/provinces, it will use the abbreviation.  It will also make use of sub-sub domains for deeper regions, for example the sub-domain for United States would be **us.**example.com, for Alabama, US it would be **us.al.**example.com.
+Clicking on this button will automatically set the "unique name" which is used for the sub-domain, for every geographic region in every level.  It will also make use of sub-sub domains for deeper regions, for example the sub-domain for United States would be **united-states.**example.com, for Alabama, US it would be **alabama.united-states.**example.com.
-If multiple locations would have the same generated subdomain, it would only automatically set the subdomain for the first duplicate, not the rest, since for the system to work the sub-domain for each location must be unique.
+If multiple locations would have the same generated subdomain, it would only automatically set the subdomain for the first duplicate, not the rest, since for the system to work the sub-domain for each location must be unique.  This is not common since it uses sub-sub domains as mentioned above to ensure less chances of having duplicates.
 ==== Clear All Subdomains ====
-This button will clear all subdomains for all countries, states/provinces, and regions.  This is handy if you want to start over and want a way to keep track of which ones you have already changed and which ones you have not.
+This button will clear all unique names (subdomains) for all regions in the system.  This is handy if you want to start over and want a way to keep track of which ones you have already changed and which ones you have not.

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