Dynamic Pages/CMS SEO Nightmare: Additional pages created when dynamic pages launched creating 404 errors

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Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to read :smile:

I recently added a CMS to a site but I’m struggling to fix a major mistake. I added several dynamic list pages to list their services, along with several dynamic list pages to list the separate categories of services (i.e. injectables, laser, wellness, etc…) along with individual service landing pages.

However, I have URLs being created that I don’t need resulting in 404 errors. (i.e. www.example.com/Injectables/(wellness treatment))

I’ve been trying to sort this out for weeks and think I just need an extra set of eyes. I’ve read the articles about unique URLs but I can’t seem to align recipes and menus to aesthetic medical spa treatments to make the URLs unique.

Thanks so much for your time! Any help is greatly appreciated!

Jess

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Hello Jess,

All the dynamic page path and prefix optimizations are done in the page SEO settings. If you have multiple dynamic item pages, check your content manager (CMS) (and maybe hidden/manage fields if not displayed) to find your dynamic page paths and change your SEO settings to match. Changes in SEO settings will automatically update the system. If not, this sounds like a issue and you should reach out to support for help.

Hope that helps!

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That helps clarify a bit! Unfortunately, hiding an entire field isn’t helpful. I think I’m trying to put too many variables into one collection. I’m going to split them up into separate collections to allow me flexibility.

Thank you so much!

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There’s no need to split the dynamic pages since they should all be connected one database. When you go that route, you will have to get into reference points if you want to cross reference your collections. If you look at your SEO settings you will see some dynamic variables. Here’s an example:

The “resources” is my dynamic page prefix or known as the dynamic all page. The {title} is unique dynamic item pages. You have to ensure that no title is the exact same in your CMS. So check your values in your database and ensure they are unique. If you want them to be the same title then change your dynamic item page to be something like this:

  • List item …url/resources/{title}/{id}

All ID’s are unique and are system generated so this will guarantee the pages to be unique.