MVC Extensions

Cobisi SEO Extensions makes your MVC action paramaters first class citizens in the world of URLs optimized for search engines. Not only your MVC actions can have their parameters automatically handled as HTTP-GET (aka querystring) values, but they can also have them handled by way of segments of the final URL. This means that the textual representation of selected parameters can be easily included in the URLs that your web application handles, with much higher chances of a better search engine ranking.

While action parameters are handled as HTTP-GET (querystring) values by default, you should decorate them with the

Route.Param

attribute to have them handled as segments of the final URL.

In the following block of code, for example, the cityName parameter will be part of the final URL and the action could be accessed with an address like

<Website root>/cheap-packages/venice

:

            public class TravelController : Controller
            {
                [Route.Action("~/cheap-packages")]
                public ActionResult FindPackages([Route.Param] string cityName)
                {
                    // TODO: Make something useful

                    return Content("A fine travel can't be too cheap.");
                }
            }
        

Of course, multiple parameters can be handled as segments of the final URL and regular, HTTP-GET (querystring) parameters can coexist with the former ones.

The MVC action defined below could thus be accessed with URLs like

<Website root>/cheap-packages/italy/venice

or

<Website root>/cheap-packages/italy/rome?includeHoaxes=true

:

            public class TravelController : Controller
            {
                [Route.Action("~/cheap-packages")]
                public ActionResult FindPackages([Route.Param] string countryName,
                    [Route.Param] string cityName,
                    bool? includeHoaxes)
                {
                    // TODO: Make something useful

                    return Content("A fine travel can't be too cheap.");
                }
            }
        

As soon as you decorate your MVC action parameter with the

Route.Param

attribute, Cobisi SEO Extensions updates the visual feedback it previously added to the IDE and shows how the final route will look like.