If you are creating a new page, the SEO URL or page route can be added.
Once a page has been saved, follow these steps to edit the Page Route. This is especially useful for Custom pages, to give them meaningful URLs for SEO and your users.
To edit a Page Route:
- In the CMS, go to Settings → SEO Maintenance. or Page Routes (zSearchEngineOptimisationMaintenance).
Click the URL Routing tab.
- Use the Search tool to find the page route.
- Click the radio button next to the route.
- Click Modify.
Update details.
Sequence - Order the page routes are interpreted. New page routes do not necessarily need to have unique values assigned.Page routes are checked each time a search is performed. Lower sequence numbers are examined first – therefore frequently used pages (i.e. 'Home', 'Login') should have a lower value than pages such as 'Terms & Conditions', which might only be viewed occasionally.
Route Name - Description of page route.
Route URL - Route for mapping requests. This will appear in the site's URL (e.g. 'Help', 'ContactUs' ).
Web Page - Page the above route is redirected to.
Default Parameter Values - Default values for parameters based on the web page (e.g. 'custompage=Help' would be the Default Parameter Values for the 'Help' URL route.).- To save, click OK.
- For the new page route to work on the site, click Re-register Routes.
Create a SEO URL / Page Route
To create a Page Route:
- In the CMS, go to Settings → SEO Maintenance. or Page Routes (zSearchEngineOptimisationMaintenance).
Click the URL Routing tab.
- Click New.
- Enter details in the fields.
- To save, click OK.
- For the new page route to work on the site, click Re-register Routes.
Users can be redirected to Specials/Campaign pages from a URL. First, create a Page Route for the Custom Page or Template.
Then simply include the URL with an 'R' parameter prefacing the Custom Page name: http://mywebsite.com.au/login.aspx?R=mycampign
Examples
Sequence | Route Name | Route URL | Web Page | Default Parameter Values | Resulting final SEO-friendly URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 | Contact Us | ContactUs | ~/Questionnaire.aspx | questionnaire=Contact | www.YourWebSite.com/ContactUs |
10 | Help | Help | ~/Custompage.aspx | custompage=Help | www.YourWebSite.com/Help |
10 | Home | Home | ~/Home.aspx | www.YourWebSite.com/Home | |
| 20 | About Us | AboutUs | ~Custompage.aspx | custompage=aboutus | www.YourWebSite.com/AboutUs |
| 500 | Product Route | Product/{product}/{ProductSEOName} | ~/ProductDisplay.aspx | www.YourWebSite.com/product/product-code-or-name | |
| 500 | Category Route | Category/{CategorySEOName}/{*CategorySEONameOptional} | ~/ProductDisplay.aspx | www.YourWebSite.com/category/category-code-or-name |
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