WCEM 30 SEO and friendly URL

[Former Member]

Dear colleages,

We have implemented a WCEM project, and now we need to carry out two improvements:

• SEO best practices
• Friendly URLs: that is, when you click in a catagory or in a product, we need to 'replace' the standar URL with an URL that connotes the category and the product you have clicked. In example,
  • This is a standar 'WECM Format' URL of a product detail: https://site.domain.com/main/catalog/productDetail.jsf?area=id010102&sort=ID&wec-appid=YOUR_APPLICAT...
  • This is the whished URL: https://site.domain.com/PRODUCT_CATEGORY/PRODUCT_SUBCATEGORY/PRODUCT_NAME

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Hello Duran,

if Hybris would not pulled away all the resources, the SEO / SEF functionality would have been a standard feature of WCEM already.

Unfortunately, this is forcing to to do some custom enhancements, but it is not too hard to implement. You can use e.g. PrettyFaces (http://ocpsoft.org/prettyfaces/) to map incoming URLs correctly. You find some good usage examples on the PrettyFaces page.

However, you will still face the problem that generated URLs which you / WCEM does write out are not pretty. This will require some custom coding in the rendering process.

Hope that helps,

Andreas

[daniel_ruiz2]

Hi Manuel,

what is your question / pain point?

there are many ways to do such.. you can create a Filter that matches the URL's in question, extend the components of JSF library in a way they will create friendly URL's for you, and this should be piece of cake..

now, you'd need also to pay attention on things like uniqueness, and using your example, you couldn't have two products with the same product name for a given product category and sub category.. WCEM itself uses productGuid as key, so you would need some enhancements directly on MDM upload to enforce such constraints...  would this be the part you have trouble?

Cheers,

D.

[Former Member]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your reply.

Could you explain how and where I can create the filters? What JSF components have I to extend?

Cheers,

Manuel

[daniel_ruiz2]

Hi Manuel,

just a Filter.. Filter (Java EE 5 SDK) - you need J2EE knowledge in order to extend WCEM or any Java based web application..

you should be able to find at least 200 or more tutorials, explanations, usages and so on on Google.. (query for j2ee filter)

Cheers,

D.