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Programmatic SEO

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The community members are discussing the use of Webstudio for a programmatic SEO directory site. The original poster is interested in creating a directory site with mostly static content and partial renders. Community members confirm this is a good use case for Webstudio, and discuss upcoming features like filters and dynamic URLs. They explore how to set up the information architecture and URL structure, with the Webstudio team indicating they will release these capabilities soon. The community members also discuss the need for unique page designs and templates, as well as the difference between filters and a full CMS solution. Overall, the community is engaged in a constructive dialogue to understand how Webstudio can support the original poster's use case.

It seems like Webstudio might be a good fit for programmatic SEO for a directory site I would like to establish for an industry I am part of. I have several databases and would like to create a directory site that would mostly be static with partial renders. Anyone doing PSEO with Webstudio?
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definitely a good architecture for this use case
100% solid use case. I'm an SEO and dev and all in on Webstudio
Thank you. I was looking for details on how I can set-up my information architecture and slug URLs? I see the collections, but not obvious to me if I can set things up with webstudio to support this. For example I am doing airports located in cities, etc. and need to set URLs up to support this.
this is something we are about to release, hopefully next week
@Ivan Starkov any estimate?
I was thinking of holding some sort of live demo / tutorial on CMS when it's released. Not entirely sure how to go about it, but if anyone has recommendations would love to hear what they are interested in. Maybe something ongoing too as it's a more advanced thing and and so many use cases
We will release filters first, since its a very different use case than CMS
even though its part of CMS as well
I think worth releasing first and make a demo
Filters for what exactly?
I call this filters, based on the use case, if you have a better name let me know, its essentially about using url query params in Resource params to fetch data based on the current url.
Biggest use case I know is creating a list of items, sorting/filtering them using select, checkbox, input etc.
Ah gotcha. I think the use case in this post will require unique pages in addition to filters. Maybe I'm wrong
by definition programmatic seo is creating lots of pages that differ by little bits content (maybe not exact defintion but my explanation ha)
ofc, but it can't be a unique design for each
if its the same type of data it would be the same layout/template
I mean if one wants to make it more interesting, there can be some amount of rotating variables
or some amount of different templates
i mispoke by saying unique pages. I mean he'll need dynamic pages
its all done by using url params
right.. isn't that CMS though?
part of it, we call it dynamic urls
and we can release it separately
is rich text the only difference between this and CMS πŸ™‚
it would give access to search and params as a variable
cms is a lot of things combbined
CMS is:
  • dynamic urls
  • url page/view selection
  • specific set of Resources that fetch data from a specific CMS (template)
  • richt text
  • image resizer for CMS images (potentially, not decided yet)
maybe something else I am forgetting
Filters
  • submit a form on canvas to test the filters
  • dynamic urls
Interesting! Curious what you come up with.
its already all came up with πŸ™‚
Appreciate the dialogue. Our plan is to have a unique design for airport pages vs. city pages. And then the content will vary based on the database we have to support this. We also will have some unique elements on some of the larger airport/cities that would not be static but dynamic.
Cool! I'm working on something that might be helpful with dynamic components. Might be worthwhile to hop on a call and share some of it
@John Siciliano that sounds interesting.
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