In doing some template conversions for some customers as of late, I am seeing some errors as far as BANS users and their Page URL setup. If you look at the image on the left, you see 3 settings. The first one is a drop down menu that lets you choose the parent category for the new store page or content page to fall under. I am not seeing too many errors with this. The second spot is the Link Name, this is what the link to the page you are creating will be named, also known as the anchor text. Make sure this targets a keyword or phrase you are targeting for the said page you are creating. Most people seem not to have a problem with this. The last are, Page URL, is where I see most of the problems. If you can help it, do not include spaces in this. If the page name in box 2 is Red Fury Widgets, the Page URL should look like one of the examples below:
redfurywidgets
red-fury-widgets
red_fury_widgets
Also get in the habit of using all lower case as it is just good basic webmastering. Leaving spaces in the Page URL is just asking for errors or 404 problems.
2 comments:
Thank you for the clarification as I have been doing this wrong. What do we do if we have initially done this wrong? Anything else involved? Can I just change it?
Sherry,
You can change them now and then perform a search in Google for the indexed pages or look at your current wrong URLs and perform a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file. Contact me and I will be glad to walk you through this if you are unsure how to do it.
Dave
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