In Ellipsis, we have repurposed the "SEO keywords" field and set up our Canonical URL service to pull the URL string from there if it is populated. (domain . primary_site_section - SEO_keywords else Basic_Headline - First_Pub_Date.html) This allows us to customize more SEO-friendly URLs and increase traffic dramatically.
However, the "SEO Keywords" field is not ideal for this purpose because:
Please introduce a new field that is specifically to be used for the purposes of customizing a URL.
Jessica Parks
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Hey folks, have there been any updates on this since 2019? It's still a very highly requested feature in our newsroom, and I'm positive we aren't alone.
This is one of the most highly requested Feature Requests you have. Every client would use this on virtually every story. It may be a difficult change to make, but the scope of the benefit would be huge.
Thanks, Sylvia! I've merged SB-I-82 with this idea.
After internal talks, we decided that this feature would raise many technical considerations. We cannot commit to this feature request now, but we will revisit it in the future.
Hi Arc team, this relates to https://ideas.arcpublishing.com/ideas/SB-I-82. Are there any updates since June 21?
I feel like this speaks to a more general need for more options to set arbitrary metadata in Ellipsis. We have ended up tying a ton of functionality to reserved SEO keywords because it's one of the only places you can actually put bespoke metadata on an article in Ellipsis.