Asp.net MVC SEO Friendly URL

Question

I want to implement a SEO friendly URL for my ASP.NET MVC website.

Currently i have a URL like:

http://www.domain.com/product?id=productid

but now i want to rewrite my URL like:

http://www.domain.com/productname

So please anybody can help me on above...

Answer 1

You can add a Route to your MVC routing engine in this fashion -

In Global.asax.cs

routes.MapRoute(
    "Product",
    "{controller}/{productId}/{productName}",
    new { controller = "Product", action = "Index" },
    new { productId = UrlParameter.Optional , productName = UrlParameter.Optional  }
);

This will allow you to have URL like

www.domain.com/productid/productname

The reason you may or may not be able to achieve

www.domain.com/productname

is that productname isn't an identifier and cannot be used to lookup a record uniquely. You would need an identifier in the url.

Ex - look at the URL for this question in SO, it has the ID and then appends SEO friendly test.

Answer 2

Please try with below solution. In global.asax.cs

routes.MapRoute(
    "Product",
    "{productName}",
    new { controller = "Product", action = "Index" },
    new { productName = UrlParameter.Optional  }
);

But you required to maintain uniqueness in productName and fetch record by that in index action of product controller (i.e in product Controller:

public ActionResult index(string productName)
{
     //do something regarding get product by productname
}