For SEO I've been told that I need to have urls for my news section like this:
/news
/news/category-of-news-1
/news/category-of-news-2
/news/article-1
/news/article-2
/news/article-3
For the sake of clarity; category-of-news-1 & 2 are listings of news articles whereas article-1 & 2 are news articles.
However because there are 100s of news articles, and I don't want the articles mixed in with the categories in my list view, I've created a folder under my news note called articles, so my sitemap looks like this:
/news
/news/category-of-news-1
/news/category-of-news-2
/news/articles/article-1
/news/articles/article-2
/news/articles/article-3
So I have two questions really.
What is the best way to remove the article folder from url. I can only think about writing my own url provider and content finder, but is there a package perhaps that will handle this for me?
Is there a better architecture? I did think about keeping the articles directly under news and having the categories structures outside, and then changing their urls as in #1 , but either way it's equally complex. Is there something I'm missing?
That said, I think I'm going to take a different approach after realising that the category pages are essentially the same as one another they just need their category name injected in to the heading and meta data. So I'll put all the articles under the news section, where their URLs will be accurate, and I'll then just create an IContentFinder to picked the news home when a matching url like /news/category-1 is requested.
Remove a segment from the path or a url
For SEO I've been told that I need to have urls for my news section like this:
For the sake of clarity; category-of-news-1 & 2 are listings of news articles whereas article-1 & 2 are news articles.
However because there are 100s of news articles, and I don't want the articles mixed in with the categories in my list view, I've created a folder under my news note called articles, so my sitemap looks like this:
So I have two questions really.
Thanks in advance!
Hi David,
You are exactly right, there is a packaged that does this for you. Infact, I think there are two.
The first I can find quickly for you is:
https://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/virtualnodes/
It's relatively easy to configure and should do what you are after.
Nik
This answers the question perfectly, thank you.
That said, I think I'm going to take a different approach after realising that the category pages are essentially the same as one another they just need their category name injected in to the heading and meta data. So I'll put all the articles under the news section, where their URLs will be accurate, and I'll then just create an IContentFinder to picked the news home when a matching url like
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