Pages - Redirects to the same subdomain

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Good morning everyone,

The situation is the following:

Let’s imagine that the store locators and locations / stores pages are being built for a brand that currently has these functionalities LIVE in a different CMS (not Yext) but wants to take advantage of the advantages that Yext offers, so it wants to pass the integrated management of its store locator to Yext .

We have the following structure for the store locator of each country as well as the locations / stores, which are LIVE:

Store locator url (per country):

stores.brand.com/es

Location url (per country):

stores.brand.com/es/brand-store-name-address

The question is:

If it is decided to use the same subdomain for the project with Yext to raise the corresponding pages (store locator and stores / stores), how can you redirect from the source urls (the ones that are currently LIVE in another platform) towards the new urls created with Yext that will use the same subdomain?

Thank you.

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Hi Mihaela,

Thank you for reaching out.

With our Page Builder offering, our system automatically appends a unique hash to each page URL upon generation (e.g. store.brand.com/es/brand-store-name-address-c0161ea9bf67).
Thus, the source URLs would differ from the Yext-hosted URLs.
(Note, removing the hash in place of a custom-defined slug field is on our product roadmap!)

From there:

  • Your client would set up a CNAME pointing to our bridge domain
  • We would set up 301 redirects from the source and target URLs and host them automatically

Best,
Luc

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Good morning Luc,

Thank you very much for you reply. So, you are clearly saying that Yext can host a redirect plan, right?

Could you please clarify why is this scenario any different than this one in which you claim that it is not possible?

Thank you very much, kind regards.

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Hi Mihaela,

In that scenario, Yext hosts both sets of pages. To power a new page in our system, we must unpublish the old one - assuming that both pages are powered by the same “entity”.

In your scenario, our system has no “unpublish” control over your client’s existing set of pages. Thus, we can host redirects for them no problem.

Best,
Luc

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