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Flexible url paths for a real estate app with webflow and bubble

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The community member is building a real estate website on Webflow and wants to create flexible URL paths to improve SEO, such as https://mydomain.com/furnished-rental/alpes-maritimes/nice/very-bright-3-bedroom-apartment. They are considering using Webstudio, which has a CMS system that they find relevant, but they are hesitant to learn a new tool.

The comments suggest that it is possible to create this type of URL path with Webstudio by using dynamic paths and extracting the values (e.g., type, location, rating, slug) into system.params. These values can then be used in custom backend or CMS queries. However, the community members note that the Webflow CMS may be limited for real estate applications that require a lot of generative content, and a custom backend may be necessary.

The community members also discuss the performance implications of this approach, and the Webstudio representative confirms that the depth of the URL path should not impact performance as long as the backend or CMS are fast.

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Hello everyone! I'm new here, so sorry if the question is a bit trivial 🙂

I've just started a website on Webflow that will go hand in hand with a Bubble app, and I've run into a limitation I hadn’t anticipated: the inability to create flexible URL paths natively.

For example: it’s a real estate app with rental listings. To improve SEO, I planned to have:

  • A page for each Region (e.g., Furnished apartment rental in Alpes Maritimes)
  • A page for each Town (e.g., Furnished apartment rental in Nice)
Ideally, I wanted to have this kind of URL path: https://mydomain.com/furnished-rental/alpes-maritimes/nice/very-bright-3-bedroom-apartment

Before all of this, I had started looking into Webstudio (especially its CMS system, which I find very pertinent), but I paused for simplicity (I know Webflow a bit better) and because I didn’t want to learn a new tool.

Is it possible to create this type of path with Webstudio?

Thanks for your answers 🙂
B
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Ouch I did something similar few years back
But generally yes, you can extract values from this url with dynamic path
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/:type/:location/:rating/:slug
And all those will be available as
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system.params.type
system.params.location
system.params.rating
system.params.slug
Those can be passed into custom backend or cms query
Webflow cms is limited and from my experience real estate requires a lot of generative content which can be done only with custom backend
Though it depends on your client requirements. Maybe webflow cms will be enough.
Hey Bogdan ! Thanks for your answer 🙂

Okay so technically, this could work.

And in terms of performance, do they stay resonnable even with this sort of depth ?

I did a few performance test with Webstudio, and I have to say I was nicely surprised hahah
Webstudio is aiming to have as less as possible overhead here. So if backend or cms are fast all should be good.
Like depth here does not matter
it's just set of values
Okay cool, that’s good news then ! I’m gonna start testing this, thanks a lot 🙂
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