Full instructions on how to create Custom SEO for each content page of the Community Server platform

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Shawn Hyde Posted: Tue, Mar 11 2008 5:17 PM

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I've seen a lot of people asking how to use custom SEO for pages so I wrote up a small how-to on this at my site:

http://shawnhyde.com/forums/p/16/16.aspx#16

Enjoy!

Also, a suggestion for the CS developers; add an seo line/colum in the database for each page and an area in the control panel where this can be edited.

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Henrik Dahl replied on Fri, Mar 14 2008 12:14 PM

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I agree. It would be awsome if Custom SEO could be easily applied to content pages (and other pages) through the control panel of Community Server. Does anyone know if there are SEO improvements in CS 2008?

Regards,
Henrik

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Alex Crome replied on Sun, Mar 16 2008 10:28 AM

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The problem with getting nice urls on Forum posts is that to totally remove the ID, you rely on each forum post having a unique 'name' and the user providing a decent name.  I have seen on these forums comprimises where people have got urls like

http://shawnhyde.com/forums/p/Full-instructions-on-how-to-create-Custom-SEO-for-each-content-page-of-the-Community-Server-platform-16/Full-instructions-on-how-to-create-Custom-SEO-for-each-content-page-of-the-Community-Server-platform-16.aspx#16

The problem however is to remember, the reason CS has urls such as http://shawnhyde.com/forums/p/16/16.aspx#16 is because it can very quickly read the appropiate postIDs from the url, and can easily make calls to the database based on these ids.  If you were to use names instead, there would have to be an extra database call to translate post names into ids which could then be used to lookup the appropiate posts.