Web site administrators will need to refer to this information when they need to set up SEO-friendly URLs, also knows as page routes, for a siteIf 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 (see Creating Custom Pages - Classic sites) , to give them a meaningful and SEO-friendly URL.
Step-by-step guides
To create URLs for SEO and your users.
To edit a Page Route:
- As Administrator, navigate In the CMS, go to Settings → SEO or Maintenance. or Page Routes (zSearchEngineOptimisationMaintenance).
Click the URL Routing tab.
Click New
- Use the Search tool to find the page route.
Populate the fields as required (refer to the legend below).
Click OK to save.
For the new page route to be operational for the site, click Re-register Routes- 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.
Info 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.
To edit a Page Route:
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Property
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Description
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The order in which the page routes are interpreted. New page routes do not necessarily need to have unique values assigned.
NOTE: The sequence values for Custom page routes should be lower than for Product/Category routes. This will help return results more quickly for non-product pages. For instance, 'Contact Us', 'Help', and 'Home' could all have a sequence value of 10, and Product/Category routes could be 500.
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Route Name
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Route Name - Description of page route.
Route URL
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- Route for mapping requests
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. This will appear in the site's URL (e.g. 'Help', 'ContactUs' ).
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Page - Page the above route
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Default Parameter Values
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- 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.
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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 |
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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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Users can be redirected to Specials/Campaign pages from a URL. First, create a Page Route for the Custom Page or Template.
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