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This feature is used with the sets SEO URL Generation featurerules for use when these are maintained online.

Overview

An SEO URL Generation Maintenance settings allow administrators to maintain rules for generating SEO-friendly URLs -friendly URL is optimised for search engines and users. This means the URL string should describe the page's content in an accurate, meaningful and unique way using relevant keywords. For ecommerce sites, having SEO-optimised URLs for pages users are likely to look for and enticed to click on, is very important. Most of these pages will be for products, categories and articles completely through the platform.

Enable and configure settings

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1. Enable Scheduled Task: toggle ON for task to run
2. Schedule Start Date: date this schedule begins
3. Run Generator Every N Minutes: how often in number of minutes the task will run. Default: '0' (once a day).

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1. SEO URL population on Integration Enabled: Whether, during integration, we populate Product/Category SeoUrl fields with the version sent (on) or just ignore sent SeoUrl field information (off)
2. Overwrite SEO URL for Non-empty Rules: Whether integration is permitted to override an existing SeoUrl field value (non empty) during integration. This assumes 'SEO URL Population On Integration Enabled' setting is enabled also (above)
3. Use SEO URL Category Prefixing on Products: 
4. SEO URL Append Code: 
5. Category Prefixing On Products
6. Seo Url Category Fields
7. Seo Url Product Fields

SEO URL Rule Maintenance

SEO URL Rule Maintenance allows you to create and maintain rules for product, category and article SEO URLs.As your site will be generating and maintaining SEO URLs online in the CMS instead of integrating them from the ERP, the rules used to create such URLs have to be specified. This feature allows you to create and generate rules for online maintenance of SEO URLs. Separate rules are required for product, category and article URLs. Note that default rules exist for product and category.

This guide explains how to create the rules and related entities.

Example

We'll use a category page to explain how a rule is created and the various entities that make up a rule. Take a look at this navigation menu for product categories. Under the top level (Level 1) 'Office Products', there are several sub-categories (Level 2), e.g., 'Writing'. 

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If we click into 'Writing', we see another sub-category (Level 3). An example is 'Ballpoint Pens'. The structure is nested: Office Products > Writing > Ballpoint Pens. The URL string reflects this structure but tags on the Category Code of each (sub-)category:

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Rule Maintenance provides entities that allow you to write such a rule. Notice we will need things like hyphens and slashes to divide. 

Access SEO URL Rule Maintenance

To access SEO URL Rule Maintenance:

1. Navigate to Advanced Content → SEO Generation Rule Management.
   

Category URL Rules

Category URL

Default for redirect, more immediate subcategory, then the category before that one.

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Default for URL:

Category

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Title

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Default for URL:

Category Meta Tag

Meta tags are small snippets of HTML code. They contain important information read by search engines. They will be generated automatically so that you don't have to do it manually. The default generates a meta tag of the last subcategory. In our example, 

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Product

Product URL

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Product Title

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Product Meta Tag

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Article

Article URL

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Article Title

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Article Meta Tag

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The Default URL is a two level category structure. 
     

Product URL Generation

1. In 

Article URL Generation

Additional Information

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