Watch this video to get an overview of how locations are handled on the website platform.
Hello and welcome to a Blocks tutorial, where we will be giving an overview of locations and how to manage locations within Blocks. When you first log into Blocks, you'll be on the dashboard view. Over here on the left, you'll see a few options. Let's click on Locations.
This takes you to your locations list, where all of the locations that you are working on—that you have loaded into Blocks—will appear here.
If you click on any one of these locations, this will take you to what we refer to as the Location Information or Location Integration page. This is where you manage all of the important information regarding a location. It's also where you will add a location, which we will go into in a different video.
As you can see up here at the top, you can change your location name. You can edit the phone numbers, email addresses, physical address, change office hours, access hours, and even your location teaser, which is used for SEO purposes. You can also change the existing photo that you're using for the location. I'll show you why this is important here in a second, but this is going to be the primary photo that's used for this location.
Then up here at the top right, you have the ability to change or manage your facility ID. This is where you put in the ID used by your FMS so that it can pull in all of the unit information, which will show up on your location's page.
So let me show you where this information shows up and why it's important. If you go to the All Locations page for this particular facility for this company, Kloset Storage, the first location that shows up here at the top is going to be Plainfield Storage, which matches the location we were just talking about. All of that information that's on that location information page will start to show up here. So your location name, address, phone number, even the unit inventory or amenities that you can put here.
Again, you can adjust that here on this box, or even the starting unit price. All of that correlates to what you see in here.
Now, if you go to View Location and you go to that location page, as you begin to scroll down, the first thing you'll notice is this header image, which matches the primary image—just as the primary image on the All Locations page. All of that correlates back to the image you choose here on the Location Information page.
As we go to the location page and start to scroll down, you'll start to see again the location name, the contact information, phone number. After the map, you'll see the office hours, access hours, and then all of your unit information and unit inventory is over here on the left. And again, that all correlates to what you input into that Location Information page.
Now if I go back to the location page as it appears on the website, if I scroll all the way down to the bottom, you'll see there is more information on here. There's a row of location images that the customer can scroll through if they want to see the images that you've chosen to put there about your location.
Further down, you have more information about the location itself, and all of this is handled in a different area.
If you go back to Blocks, over here on the left you'll see an option called Pages. If you click on there, this now takes you to all of the pages that show up on your website.
Now over here at the top you have Corporate Pages and Location Pages. If you click on Location, this will also bring up a list of all of the locations that you have loaded into Blocks.
Now, this looks different than if you go to the Location Information page we showed you earlier, because this is where you will actually adjust all of the other information that shows up on that site. So over here on the right, you can add in SEO keywords, SEO description.
This first dynamic block—this represents all of the unit inventory that shows up on that page. But then below that, you have the ability to add more information, which we call blocks. This is the image block that we talked about. You can edit that. You can add other blocks to the bottom. Now we've only put two on here, but I'll show you an example of one of our customers—Avid Storage.
If you scroll down to the bottom of one of their pages, you'll see not only do they have a row, an image block, they've also got more informational blocks about the location. And this all helps to serve not only improving customer experience, but also the SEO experience that you'll get—and the SEO power that you'll get—from this location page.
And again, all of that can be adjusted by going to the Location Page and adding, removing, changing, editing blocks.
Again, the main difference is: if you click on the Locations tab on the left, this brings you to a list of your locations, but this will bring you to the Location Information page where you edit the information about a location.
If you want to actually edit what is being viewed on a location beyond that initial information, you want to click on Pages, go to Location Pages, and then find your location there. This will then give you the ability to add, remove, edit blocks that show up on that page.
If you have any more questions, let us know. And also watch some of our other videos to learn how to add blocks to locations and how to edit some of the information, as well as how to add a new location. Thank you so much!