UrlSegments & SEO?

[hellomoto]

Are URL segments indexable & search engine optimizable? Site-mappable? With or without SEO meta tags rendered in the native site template rendering the URL segment, drawing page data from a separate PW installation? if only rendering when the urlSegment1 matches the name of a page of a specified template with the same parent? I don't know how to test this locally. Thank you.

[wbmnfktr]

Before this ends in a yes, no, maybe, only with custom code answer:

Give this a good read: https://processwire.com/docs/front-end/how-to-use-url-segments/

URL segments might feel a bit off at first, but at the end it's only a smaller thing in-between.
The initial setup can be tricky but going from there it is like working with any other page or template.

[Ivan Gretsky]

On 2/5/2024 at 6:51 PM, hellomoto said:

Are URL segments indexable & search engine optimizable? Site-mappable?

As it is all urls and html content at the end the answer is yes to all of those questions. The difference is that you don't get a unique page object for a urlSegment as you do for a regular page. The urlSegment can show data from some other page though (as you mentioned).

You need to code all this. And there might be only a little or a lot of code. You need to start solving tasks one by one to find out all the answers.

On 2/5/2024 at 6:51 PM, hellomoto said:

I don't know how to test this locally.

I do not see any difference where to test it at. Surely, most of the time it is done in some sort of a test env. Locally is totally fine. But maybe there is some sort of a limitation at your external data provider. If so, elaborate on this and we will answer in more detail.