| Feature |
Benefit |
| Create Custom Urls for DotNetNuke Pages |
Everyone who has created a DotNetNuke site has asked the question 'where do I set the Url for the page?'. The Core installation doesn't allow this, but the Url Master does! By choosing your own page Url, you can:
- Stuff your Page Url with keywords and keyphrases, like mysite.com/My_Keyword_Rich_Page_Name/
- Replace Url illegal characters like ž, ÿ and ö with url-safe equivalents like z,y and o.
- Use Page names with & and : in it, but have a Page Url that is Url-safe - like 'test & try' can be made to 'test_and_try' or 'test_try'.
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| Create Custom Redirects for DotNetNuke Pages |
If you've got an old site that is being replaced, or perhaps you're just re-organising your existing site. Either way, you'll end up with Urls that no longer work. Rearrange with confidence, because you can specify any number of Urls to point back to a single DNN page, all using the 301 permanent redirect Http status so Search Engines will update their indexes. You can keep your page rankings and change your site at the same time, and no longer be tied to the way things were. |
| Turn your page names into Friendly Urls with spaces replaced and TabId banished forever |
You don't have to specify custom Urls for all the pages - the Url Master will generate friendly names based on the Page Name - but you can choose what to replace spaces in the page name with - like '-' or '_'. This means that search engines can easily identify the keywords in your Url, meaning that even incoming links with no anchor text have got exactly the right keywords in them. Get rid of the /TabId/ and not only do you stop advertising to the world you run a DNN site, you also get rid of keyword noise in the Url, leaving only the text that you want to keep. |
| Expert Support |
Use the iFinity Support Forums, even if you're just using a trial version. You'll get fast replies to your questions and access to a community of like-minded users. Or, use the iFinity Premium Support and get the module installed and configured by an expert. |
| Use whatever page Url extension you like, including no extension at all |
The .aspx extension on your pages is there for the benefit of the Microsoft Programmers to make their job easier, not yours. You don't need to stick with it. Changing the extension to .html, .page or .content will give your pages more meaning. Or go all the way and remove the extension all together, and have Urls on your site that are plain paths ending in '/'. Now even DNN sites can look slick and finished. |
| Eliminate Duplicate Content by redirecting unfriendly Urls, and by forcing Urls to a Single Domain and Case |
Search Engine Optimisation experts constantly warn against the dangers of duplicate content to your page rankings - that is, the same page available under different Urls. With Url Master, you can put a stop to duplicate content by using 301 permanent redirects in three ways:
- Redirect all your 'old' DNN Urls to your new Friendly Urls automatically, thus updating the Search Engine indexes, and making sure your content is only avaiable with the Friendly Url of your choosing.
- Redirect any subdomain to one of your choosing. Decide on 'www' or no subdomain at all, and redirect all requests to that choice. No more wwww.yoursite.com and yoursite.com versions of your content on search engine indexes.
- Redirect any mixed case requests to be all in lower case. Some search engines may list a 'Mixed Case' and 'lower case' version of a Url as two distinct Urls.
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| Install Quickly and Easily |
The Url Master module installs in a single click, using the standard DNN Module Installer. It even creates the pages and loads the modules and is ready to go immediately, without having to create new pages and add new modules. You will literally have new Urls in 10 minutes. |
| Configure Options Easily and 'Try before you Apply' |
The advanced configuration options for Friendly Url generation and Url rewriting actually allow you to check how your site will behave before you apply the changes. This extremely useful feature means that you can tinker with your Url settings until you are confident it will work OK. Change your settings with confidence that your site will work flawlessly. |
| Total Compatibility with DotNetNuke Core |
The Url Master is built to provide an exact replacement for the core DotNetNuke Friendly Url Provider and Url Rewriting Module. This means you don't have to worry about whether your site will work - chances are, it will. |
| Advanced Configuration for all types of Third Party Module interoperability |
Some Third Party modules don't use the Core API, so they don't work properly after removing the /TabId/ from the Url. That's OK, because until you can get a new version of that module that conforms to DNN standards, the Url Master has many different ways of bypassing friendly Url Processing for the affected pages, leaving your existing modules functioning perfectly. |