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Site URL Hierarchy Structure

I'm trying to set up and deploy a site wide URL hierchy and need your help.  I haven't found any specific information on the weebly forums, help topics etc, some have a similar title, but are refering to something very different.

When in the Site Editor - Pages, clicking on a specific page - SEO Settings - Page Permalink, I can't enter "/" to create main sub urls to structure my pages as sub urls.  I do have pages organised under main pages, and deeper pages with deeper level organization in the site editor, however they do not create a url hierarchy. 

I will list examples below comparing the url hierchy of my site vs weebly's to further explain what I am trying to achieve.

Home Page

imageCanadian Chimney Home Page

https://www.canadianchimney.com/

Weebly Home Page

https://www.weebly.com/

Sub Page from the Main Navigation Tab

Canadian Chimney - Service (I have a SEO Permalink)

https://www.canadianchimney.com/service.html

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Weebly - SEO

https://www.weebly.com/seo

Going Beyond 2nd Level URL Hierarchy

(note the forward slashes after the main site url)

*This is where my site url hierchal structure stops and Weebly's continues.  I will still include pages from my site that I have organised as sub pages in the site editor. 

Canadian Chimney Home - Service - Installation (has permalink)

https://www.canadianchimney.com/installation.html

This may also be defined as "1st level", as the page is in the same column as the home page?*

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Weebly Url Optimization

https://www.weebly.com/seo/url

Notice the deeper levels in the url

Next Level URL

Canadian Chimney Installation Services (no permalink)

https://www.canadianchimney.com/fireplace-installation-service.html

I have this page orginized in the site editor - pages - services - installations - fireplace installations

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The Weebly examples I noted above do not have deeper levels for the SEO info section, but have a look at the URL at the top of your page right now, and observe the multiple hierchal structure (the seperations with the "/"

Next Level

Canadian Chimney Gas Fireplace Installation Service (no permalink)

https://www.canadianchimney.com/gas-fireplace-installation-service.html

I have this page orginized in the site editor - pages - services - installations - fireplace installations - gas fireplace installation service

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If anyone knows how to accomplish a multiple level site hierarchy using weebly, I would be very thankful as I'm sure many others would be too.  As my site is not an ecommerce site, I do not use the eccommerce layers.  I tried it out to have access to the deeper level url's, but using this method creates sub urls after /store.  Based on the eccommerce categories somewhat working to create a url hierarchy, I assume there must be a way?  If there is not a way to do this using the site editor, is there a way to do so using the css editor?  Thanks in advance!!!

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Hm.. you make a good point, @CanadianChimney. I'm not sure if there is anyway to do that, unfortunately. This may be something you would need to submit as a feature request. I'm super curious to see if anyone else has some thoughts on this. 

https://community.weebly.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/IdeaExchange/search-before-post-mode/true

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Yes, this is a big issue. 

The tabs on weebly editor give the imprssion you are creating a heirarchy but every single page you create in Weebly lies in the root directory. 

This is very messy from an sEO point of view and googlebot gets confused. 

We need this rectified or else we will be moving to Wordpress 🙂

Weebly is great and I love it but these limitations need to be addressed if you want to keep customers. 

Also Schema Mark up implementation.  Needs an app or an easy to use tool.

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