Each BOWP member is allowed to be listed in three countries/states as well as six cities within those countries/states (including their Based In locations). We often receive new profiles and/or changes to profiles for locations that are not currently in our drop-down menu.
First check our shared Google document https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W4Yz4vXxVv-PoQtqi5BRyK-VihO-1WWM/edit#gid=1298088278 under the 2nd tab entitled Saved Category Descriptions. If it is there:
Log into https://www.bestofweddingphotography.com/wp-admin.
In the drop-down menu, select Categories .
Select Add New.
Under Name, input the location + Wedding Photographers, i.e. Toronto Wedding Photographers.
Under Parent Category - select the country or state that the city is located in.
Under Description - copy in the information from the Google spreadsheet. Note: We changed the format with respect to SEO several years ago (so there may be some old ones that need tweaking). Each category description should include one link to the location i.e. Arizona Wedding Photographers https://www.bestofweddingphotography.com/photographers/arizona-wedding-photographers/ one in bold i.e. Arizona Wedding Photographers. These are the only two times that Arizona Wedding Photographers should be in the description. It's fine to add another reference (with no link or bold formatting) like wedding photographers in Arizona.
Select Add New Category.
Once this is saved, you can delete that row in the Google spreadsheet.
If the location is not on the Google spreadsheet:
In the drop-down menu, select Categories https://www.bestofweddingphotography.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category.
Select Add New.
Under Name, input the location + Wedding Photographers, i.e. Toronto Wedding Photographers.
Under Parent Category - select the country or state that the city is located in.
Under Description - leave blank*
Select Add New Category.
*An SEO-rich category description will be written at a later date. It's important that you add the new category or categories to this Google spreadsheet on the To Write tab: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W4Yz4vXxVv-PoQtqi5BRyK-VihO-1WWM/edit#gid=1298088278.