SEO country-specific urls

[eric_rosfelder]

We need to set up country-specific urls for the home page, products and categorie.

Currently all urls start with:

• "/p" for products
• "/c" for categories

Tomorrow it is desired to differentiate the urls for Switzerland and Belgium with the aim of improving SEO of theses countries.

Examples

Home

• FR : https://www.example.com/
• CH : https://www.example.com/ch-fr/
• BE : https://www.example.com/be-fr/

Category

• FR : https://www.example.com/c/1341/catname1/catname2
• CH : https://www.example.com/ch-fr/c/1341/catname1/catname2
• BE : https://www.example.com/be-fr/c//catname1/catname2

Product

• FR : https://www.example.com/p/00323001/productname
• CH : https://www.example.com/ch-fr/p/00323001/productname
• BE : https://www.example.com/be-fr/p/00323001/productname

Context:

• SAP Commerce 1905
• Only one website
• Only one product catalog
• Multi-country is used with 2 basestore (EUR and CHF)
• The catalog is only translated into French
• Belgium doesn't "exist" because it's the same product, price, stockleve as French. There is therefore no need (a priori) to create a baseStore, catalog or website for Belgium. Page on FR and BE will be the same
• We will add the "hreflang" metas to avoid content duplication by search engines (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077)

Our approach is as follows

Create a new attribute which can be configured in urlEncodingAttributes by creating a new class on the same basis as DefaultLanguageAttributeManager but which will allow:

1) Limit the addition of the prefix only to product, categories and home page

2) To set the session currency as follows:

• "" -> EUR (as "fr-fr" but we don-t want to show "fr-fr" in url prefix)
• "be-fr" -> EUR
• "ch-fr" -> EUR

Does anyone have another idea of approach

[former_member942703]

Actually, it’s not that complicated, but mostly I agree with you. I prefer delegating the job to the specialists too. We’re currently working with probably one of the best blogger outreach service providers. Not an ad, just a friendly rec. Actually, there are a lot of cool specialists and SEO agencies on Upwork and Fiverr. There’s no reason to share them all here cause there are too many of them. While choosing a specialist, I pay close attention to his/her portfolio and reviews. Anyway, thanks for the info on the specific URLs. Share some updates on that, please.

[eric_rosfelder]

and unfortunately these are precisely recommendations from SEO specialists. 😞