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When XperienCentral's SEO component is installed, theoretically all URLs for your website are friendly. The friendly URL for pages is constructed using the page's location in the navigation tree together with the URL title, navigation title, or page title (depending on how SEO is configured). For example, if a page has the title 'XperienCentral', then the URL of the page will be .../XperienCentral.htm (or .html). With SEO disabled, the URL of a page is not created using the pages's friendly URL title, instead an internal ID as assigned to pages within XperienCentral is used, for example '.../id=77581/langid=42'. For search engines and users, the unfriendly URL provides no useful meaning regarding the contents of the page and/or its location in the website's navigation hierarchy. Back to top

How Friendly URLs are Constructed

The friendly URL of an item in XperienCentral includes the relative path to the item based on the structure of the navigation tree, the title of the item and an extension, in much the same way that a path for a file is delineated in a file system. The precise URL that an item will be assigned is derived using a set of rules that evaluate the item's title(s) as well as its location in the website's navigation hierarchy. In XperienCentral, you can assign the following three titles to pages/content items:

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• The URL's extension is set to .htm.
• The separator symbol, which is substituted for spaces that appear in titles, is a dash (-).

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• The separator symbol is defined in the XperienCentral Setup Tool. The default is a dash (-).

For Content Repository items, the situation is a bit different. Because Content Repository items do not have navigation titles, only the URL title or the title of the item itself is used in the friendly URL. If a content item has a URL title, it is used in the friendly URL, otherwise the title of the content item itself is used. The exact friendly URL that a content item will have when it is viewed depends on the page on which it is displayed.

For example, if a content item has the title "GX releases XperienCentral 10", the friendly URL of the content item is 'GX-releases-XperienCentral-10.htm'. There is no hierarchical structure prefixed internally to the friendly URL of the content item because it is stored in the Content Repository. When the content item is displayed on a page, the hierarchical structure of the 'display on' page is prefixed to the content item's friendly URL with the result being the friendly URL for the page and the content item. Based on the example friendly URLs shown in the table above, the friendly URLs for the following sample content items would be:

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