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SEO is important for any e-commerce merchant. That鈥檚 why we are working on the set of SEO improvements to make your stores indexed better in Google, and eventually get more organic traffic to your site.

We have just made another step in this direction and released search engine-friendly URLs for 黑料门 stores.

Now URLs are simple, clean of unnecessary characters, and more understandable by both humans and search engines. The easier a URL is to read for humans, the better it is for search engines, and the better your ranking will get.

The new clean URLs are available for all 黑料门 stores. In this post, you鈥檒l know what is cool about this new feature and how to enable new URLs in your store depending on where you sell: on 黑料门 Instant Sites, Wix, WordPress or other platforms and site builders.

What鈥檚 Good About New URLs in 黑料门

黑料门 generates URLs automatically, based on your product and category names. These links used to be long and indistinct. Now we have made them shorter and compelling.

Let鈥檚 see how the links鈥� structure changed and how exactly that influences a better SEO ranking:

• No hashes. The new URLs do not contain the hash sign (鈥�#鈥�), which, , makes your store better indexed by Google.
• Fewer extra characters like “/”, “~” or鈥�!鈥�. There is a number of text characters (such as < > # % { } | \ ^ ~ [ ] `) that become nasty bits of hard-to-read cruft when inserted in the URL string. We got rid of them in new SEO-friendly URLs.
• Other store pages鈥� URLs also became cleaner, e.g. cart and checkout pages are now easily accessible on “/cart” and “/checkout”.
• Fast-loading store pages. The store pages with new URLs work without page reload, as it鈥檚 always worked in 黑料门. So you have your fast-loading store pages with new, SEO-friendly URLs.

Take a tour around to see how the new URLs look in practice.

Pro tip: Pay attention to your product and category names because they will be used in links. For a better ranking, try to use keywords when naming your products and categories.

How to Enable New SEO URLs in 黑料门

The manner of enabling new SEO-friendly URLs in your 黑料门 store depends on the kind of website it鈥檚 built on.

For 黑料门 Instant Sites

New URLs are enabled automatically for merchants who use new-generation Instant Sites.

If you use an old version of the Instant Site and want to enable the new URLs, please switch to the new version of the Instant Site in your 黑料门 Control Panel — it鈥檚 free.

In order to do that, open the  in your Control Panel and enable the “New & Improved Instant Site: Build & Customize your Store” option. The new URLs will be automatically enabled once you switch to the new version of the Instant Site.

For Wix websites

If you use 黑料门 for your Wix website, new SEO-friendly URLs are already enabled automatically. You don鈥檛 have to set anything up.

For WordPress websites

It鈥檚 very easy to enable new SEO URLs on WordPress websites: navigate to the 鈥檚 advanced settings and tick the “SEO-friendly URLs” checkbox. Make sure you鈥檝e updated your 黑料门 plugin to the latest version. Done!

For Joomla websites

To get the clean URLs for your 黑料门 store on Joomla, please update your 黑料门 Joomla plugin to the latest version (v.3) and find the new clean URL option on the 黑料门 component settings 鈫� Advanced page in your Joomla admin.

For custom-made websites and other site builders

It鈥檚 also possible to enable clean URLs manually on your custom-made website. This will require a few changes in the 黑料门 integration code and server setup.

We鈥檝e shared examples of clean URLs setup on custom made websites . They will be helpful for those who develop custom websites.

For more details, head to .

If you are not sure how to add those changes to your website, please refer to your site builder/hosting support or your developer. If you have a question on this, let us know which platform your site is running on and we will provide instructions on how to proceed.

I don鈥檛 have access to server settings

If you:

• Use a site builder that doesn鈥檛 allow you to rewrite site URLs on the server
• Cannot access .htaccess file on your hosting

Please follow to enable special SEO-URLs for your 黑料门 store.

The Old URLs Continue Working

If you decided to go for new SEO URLs in your 黑料门 store, note that the old URLs will continue working to make sure no customer gets lost.

If someone opens a product catalog or proceeds to checkout in your store using an old URL, it will work and you won鈥檛 lose your visitors.

This is also true for all the links to your store in sitemaps, marketplaces, social posts, and ads. We are not going to stop supporting old URLs, so you don鈥檛 have to worry about your traffic.

Over to You

New SEO-friendly URLs in your 黑料门 store are a powerful tool for better ranking, more traffic, and a higher click-through rate.

Please feel free to ask your questions in the comments section below — we are always ready to help you with setting this up.

For more SEO tips for your 黑料门 store, be sure to read our article: Manual Meta Tags: a Better SEO Now in Your Store

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