# Search & SEO

Bagisto 2.2.0 introduces new marketing tools to elevate your store’s visibility and improve customer experience.

# URL Rewrite

This feature allows the admin to manage errors related to product, category, and CMS URLs.

If an admin modifies their URL for any reason, this functionality ensures seamless redirection to the new path URL.

Step 1: To check this feature the admin needs to click Marketing >> Search & SEO >> URL Rewrites now click on Create URL Rewrite button as shown in the below image.

URL Rewrite

Step 2: Add the below fields:

1) For - Select the FOR for which you are applying the URL Rewrite (Product, Category, CMS Page).

2) Request Path - For Request Path, replace the default by entering the URL key and suffix (if applicable) of the original product request. This is the redirect from a product that you identified in the planning step.

3) Target Path - The Target Path field displays the system version of the path, which cannot be changed. Initially, the Redirect Path field also displays the target path.

4) Redirect Type - Set Redirect Type to one of the following:

A) Temporary (302) - Use this for temporary changes, keeping SEO value with the old URL.

B) Permanent (301) - Use this for permanent changes with SEO value transfer to the new URL

5) Locale - Select the language in which you want the URL to be rewritten.

Now click on the Save URL Rewrite button.

URL Fields

Step 3: Now the New URL is redirected as per the Target path permanently.

URL Output

# Search Terms

These are the Keywords that have been used by your customers on the storefront to search for their products.

Step 1: For creating a new search term go to the admin panel needs to click Marketing >> Search & SEO >> Search Terms now click on the Create Search Term button as shown in the below image.

Search Term

Step 2: Add the Below fields of the Search Terms:

1) Search Query - Type the query of a product name that a customer will search from the storefront

2) Redirect URL - Add the URL that the search term will get redirected.

3) Channel - Add the channel at which the Search terms will be visible.

4) Locale - Select the language in which you want the Search Terms.

Now click on the Save Search Term button.

Search Field

Step 3: A new search field by the name of Adorable is created successfully as shown in the below image.

Search Grid

Step 4: Frontend

Now check the result by searching your search term.

Frontend Output

# Search Synonyms

Search Synonyms are those terms that the customer is searching in place of a particular product. For eg. if the customer wants footwear for that they can search shoe to formal shoes, sports shoes, party wear shoes, etc it will search for those with ease.

Step 1: For creating a new search term go to admin panel needs to click Marketing >> Search & SEO >> Search Synonyms now click on the Create Search Synonyms button as shown in the below image.

Search Synonym

Step 2: Enter the below fields:

1) Name - Enter the name of the synonym.

2) Terms Enter the related terms which belong to the name.

Search Synonym Fields

Now click on the Save Search Synonym button.

Step 3: A new synonym field by the name of shoe is created successfully as shown in the below image.

Synonym Grid

Step 4: Frontend

Now check the result by searching your search synonym this contains all the categories of the shoes as shown in the below image.

Synonym Output

# Sitemaps

Sitemaps inform search engines which pages on a website should be crawled, and may help search engines discover and index those pages. While sitemaps can be a simple text file listing the URLs of all of the pages you'd like to have indexed, they can also be an XML document carrying more information.

# Step 1: Add New Sitemap

  1. On Admin panel, go to Marketing >> Search & SEO >> Sitemaps click on Create Sitemap as shown in below image

Create Sitemap

# Step 2: Add New Sitemap

Add File Name and File Path and click the Save Sitemap button.

Kindle make sure you created a XML file and mention its desired path as shown below.

Save Sitemap

# Step 3:

Now you will able to see the new Sitemap as shown below.

Sitemap

By this, you can easily create a Sitemap in Bagisto 2.2.0