The areas section of VIA is one of the most import sections of your VIA software. It is used to:
Customise your website’s website's property search; you can define areas and the properties that you want to display when a search is triggered for that area
Add/Edit your area guide page information
Controlling the Find Properties in your Local Area section of your website (which dramatically increases your SEO for the area keywords that are important to your business)
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