Literature Item URL: SEO Friendly?

[BrianEricksonCO]

The following article ( http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/portal_landing_page/Partner.html?page=665:bc_665:html ) states that Literature Item URLs should look something like this:

mydomain.com/_literature_12345/file-name.mov

However, my experience is that they actually look like this:

mydomain.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=12345

Has anyone else experienced this? I prefer the former option since it includes the actual filename. Is there a way to choose this formatting?

Thanks!

Brian

[smitchell80 · Accepted solution]

Hi Brian,

By default the literature URL should show as SEO friendly however if you have some invalid syntax that cannot output in the url such as comma, quotes, etc then the system will auto revert the url to non-friendly. 

If unsure please provide and example of what you are experiencing so we can help confirm.

Kind regards,

-Sidney

[BrianEricksonCO]

Sidney,

Are you referring the the formatting on the name of the file?  In this case, the only unusual characters are hyphens and capital letters:

Arizona-Legislature-Senate-Voting-Record-2009.pdf

If I'm understanding the KB right, the link should look like:

mydomain.com/_literature_12345/Arizona-Legislature-Senate-Voting-Record-2009.pdf

I did find the correct number for that lit item (in place of 12345), but it still only works with the SEO unfriendly URL formatting. Ideas?

Thanks!

Brian

[smitchell80]

Send me the link to your site where the item is outputting in an unfriendly manner and I'll have a look.

You can PM me if you like to have your site remain private.

Kind regards,

-Sidney

[BrianEricksonCO]

Thanks Sidney. The SEO friendly URL seems to be working now (not sure what I was doing wrong). Strangely, though the file name uses hyphens, the URL uses underscores. I wonder if this is because the title uses spaces? Hyphens are superior to underscores in the world of SEO, if I'm not mistaken.