Use blog title for URL

Currently blog article's URL is numeric based. This makes it unreadable for people who you share the link with and this is not good from SEO point of you. The URL has to use blog title.

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Evgeny Zaritovskiy shared this idea · Nov 28, 2016 · Report… · Admin →

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Christopher Slee commented · December 23, 2023 11:41 AM · Report

Unique URL for a specific post
The site can display a single blog post / event ... but the URL is that of a system page, with no parameters

i.e. there is no available URL to refer to that blog post / event. Totally limiting.

i.e. I cannot send an email telling someone to look at a specific blog post / event because there is no URL / identifier to refer to.

Suggestion: add an post identifier to the URL

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jilly commented · March 3, 2021 9:20 AM · Report

And now it's 2021. Five years. Blogs drive traffic. You're hurting your customers.

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Anonymous commented · March 14, 2020 7:56 AM · Report

Have they updated this yet? It is 2020 now.

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Steven Reames commented · October 24, 2019 1:32 PM · Report

It is dumb that you cannot customize blog post entry URLs. Look around at everybody else's editors and see that this is a standard function.

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Adina Zaiontz commented · March 9, 2019 1:27 PM · Report

Can't believe it is 2019 and the Wild Apricot app can't handle a basic thing like having blog posts where you can modify the URL and its not just numeric. The numeric URLs are completely useless for SEO. You already have the function to modify the URL on regular pages so why cant you just add this to the blog pages??? Your users have been asking for this since 2016!!!!

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Liz Nettleton commented · November 12, 2018 4:42 PM · Report

It's not just on blogs that this is an SEO issue. Not being able to change the event URL (which is where 70% of our traffic comes from) is killing our SEO.

The number is meaningless to everyone - even our staff who use the system every day, have to search via the back end, link or the events page for a particular event instead of being able to type in the event name.

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Mary Adams commented · April 27, 2017 2:07 PM · Report

(I notice that the Wild Apricot blog uses post titles in your URL's....!)

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Mary Adams commented · April 27, 2017 1:54 PM · Report

I would add that the same problem exists for the discussion forums. We have a lot of great content in our blogs and forums but I'm not sure they are getting the search engine attention they deserve! (Is there a workaround?)

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The CLUB - Incubator of Women Leaders commented · April 20, 2017 8:41 PM · Report

Blogs need custom titles and ability to add meta tags for SEO

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