SEO keywords

GrandCMS allows the use of search engine optimized URLs for information and category pages. SEO keywords are defined per information and category page, stored in a database table (url_alias), looked up at each page request, and translated into an internal URL.

In order to use SEO keywords, they must be enabled in the site settings page, server tab in the admin interface.

A correctly formatted .htaccess file must be present in the root of the GrandCMS installation (beside the admin and catalog folders).

The .htaccess.txt file should be present in your site's root folder. If not, then extract it from the GrandCMS installer. If the .htaccess.txt file is present, please change its name to ".htaccess". With the .htaccess file changed, you should be able to add unique SEO keywords to individual categories and information pages.

If your grandcms installation does not run on the main web folder then you have to change this line in your .htaccess file:

RewriteBase /

to this:

RewriteBase /yoursubfolder/

The SEO keywords you add will be displayed in the url of the page, so they must be unique for each information, category, etc. Let's see what happens when we add the SEO keyword, "interesting-thing", to our "Interesting Thing" information under the Data tab:

If our site is located at "www.mysite.com", the new URL of the "Interesting Thing" information page will be located at "www.mysite.com/interesting-thing". Overall, creating SEO keywords will clean up your site page's URL and optimize your page for search engines.

This manual page's SEO keyword is "seo-keywords" as you can see in the URL. So this page's URL is "https://www.grandcms.com/seo-keywords".