Page addresses

Every page has its own address (URL), for example https://www.janssens.be/services/bathroom. The CMS creates the last part (bathroom) automatically from the title when you create a page.

A good address

• Short and descriptive: /bathroom-renovation instead of /our-services-in-the-field-of-bathroom-renovation-and-more.
• Lower case and hyphens, no spaces or special characters. The CMS takes care of that automatically.
• Leave out unnecessary words, such as “the”, “and” or “our”.
• No years if the page is meant to last, such as a service page.

❌ Not so good	✅ Better
/page-1	/contact
/our-services-in-the-field-of-roofing	/roofing
/offer-2024	/offer

Changing an address

Only change the address of an existing page if it’s really necessary. The old address stops working afterwards, and that has consequences:

• links to it (in emails, on social media, on other websites, in Google) lead to an error page;
• the page temporarily loses its place in Google.

Need to change an address anyway?

Let us know. We can automatically redirect the old address to the new one, so visitors and Google keep finding the page.

For a new page that hasn’t been published yet, you can change the address freely.

Multilingual website

On a multilingual website, each address usually starts with the language, and each language has its own address:

https://www.janssens.be/nl/badkamer-renovatie
https://www.janssens.be/fr/renovation-salle-de-bains

• Translate the address too. A French-speaking visitor and Google expect French words in the address. You change the address per language: first choose the language, then Change URL in the page’s menu (⋯).
• Do this before you publish the page. After that, the same rules apply as for changing an address.
• Haven’t translated the address? Then the page gets the same address in that language as in the default language, for example /fr/badkamer-renovatie. That works, but it’s less clear.