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How to make a page accessible by two urls for seo purposes?

We currently have a page that has this url: /tires?product_subtype=8. The page content is a tires list filtered by a specific product subtype. For SEO purposes, we also need the page to be accessible via this url: /lawn-and-garden.

Is there an easy way to do this? We’re using Ruby on Rails framework and Nginx.

We will be doing this on lots of pages:

/tires?product_subtype=1 - /industrial-tires
/tires?product_subtype=2 - /commercial-tires
etc...
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  1. 0

    If both the routes are performing the same task then route them to the same controller#action in config/routes.rb.

    For example:

    get 'tires', to: 'welcome#index'
get 'lawn-and-garden', to: 'welcome#index'

    UPDATE:

    If I understand you right, then you would like the page to be accessible by both routes /tires?product_subtype=1 as well as /industrial-tires(without query param). We have done something similar on one of our projects, we call these pretty url’s as landing pages. I can think of two options to implement these landing pages:

    • If you have a fixed number of very few landing pages:

      create an action for each of them which renders corresponding subtype view.

      def industrial_tires
  ## render view filtered for product_subtype = 1
end

def commercial_tires
  ## render view filtered for product_subtype = 2
end
## .... so on

    • If you have many/ variable number of landing pages:

      you will have to create a low priority catch all route and within the mapped action conditionally render specific view based on the slug.

      get '*path', to: 'tires#landing_page'  ## in routes.rb at the end of the file

def landing_page
  ## "path" would be equal to industrial-tires or commercial-tires, etc.
  ## conditionally specify view filtered for product_subtype based on path value
end
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  2. 0

    I’d suggest you route your various categories to a single CategoriesController and create an action for each category. 

    /routes.rb

...
get 'lawn-and-garden', to: 'categories#lawn_and_garden'
get 'industrial-tires', to: 'categories#industrial_tires'
...

/categories_controller.rb

def lawn_and_garden
  params[:product_subtype] = '8'
  @tires = YourTireFilter.search(params)
  render 'tires/index'
end

def industrial_tires
  params[:product_subtype] = '1'
  @tires = YourTireFilter.search(params)
  render 'tires/index'
end

    Repeat for other URLs.

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