Dynamic URL variable for SEO with Meteor

MichaelKhait
May 11, 2015
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1 vote
2 Answers

I’m working on a Meteor app which uses ms-seo package. I was wondering if there is a way to make URLs more SEO friendly?

Router.route('/item/:_id', {
  name: 'item.detail',
  controller: 'ItemsController',
  action: 'detail',
  where: 'client',
  onAfterAction: function() {
    var data = this.data();
    if (data) {
    SEO.set({
      title: data.title + ' - ' + data.company + ' (' + data.city + ')',
      meta: {
        'description': data.descriptionHTML
      }
    });
  }
});

While this works perfect, the URL it produces is /item/5RTxofPPn3LwifP24, I would like to push data.title up in the url, so I can get /item/i-am-a-lower-case-dash-replaced-unique-title/

Are there packages for that?

Answers

- thatgibbyguy
- May 11, 2015 at 8:31 pm
- 0 votes
0
You need to create a slug. So your collection will have fields like:
- _id
- title
- slug
- content
Then to make your slug you can use something like https://atmospherejs.com/yasaricli/slugify to convert your title into a slug. Basically what it does is convert a title called “Unique Shopping Cart Item” to “unique-shopping-cart-item.”

Then in your router you pass the slug in as your parameter.
```
Router.route('/blog/:slug',{
    name:'blogPosts',
    waitOn: function() { return Meteor.subscribe('collection'); },
    data: function(){
        var slug = this.params.slug;
        return Collection.findOne({slug:slug});
        // this is saying search the collection's slug for the passed in parameter which we're also calling "slug"
    }
});
```
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