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  1. Magnolia
  2. MAGNOLIA-3385

Render flat navigation hierarchies for SEO

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    • Resolution: Won't Do
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      By default, our navigation elements reflect the hierarchy of a site. For SEO reasons it would be good if the hierarchies are as flat as possible, at best having only top level pages. For understanding the logical structure of a site, hierarchies are however very desirable.

      What I imagine is that the navigation elements actually render as they do now but point to top-level "aliases". In fact, no deep links should ever be rendered anywhere (to avoid duplicate content violation).

      So while my page hierarchy is as follows:
      home
      home/about
      home/about/history

      The menu would look:

      home

      • about
      • - history

      But e.g. history would always link to www.a.com/history.html not www.a.com/home/about/history.html

      One problem that I see is that we would need to ensure that in such a case all page names are unique. (Observation?)

      As a related issue, I think the "folder" concept discussed for STK goes in a similar direction; possible with better control over which hierarchies are flat and which are not.

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