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Hi!

First of all, thanks for developing a great CMS! I've been searching for this for a long time.

I have a problem/request with/for page alias in combination with pretty urls. The problem is that not two pages can have the same alias. While I perfectly understand that, it is not entirely true. The way I think it should be is: two pages in the same hierachy level can not have the same alias.

To make you understand why, let me put up this scenario:

I'm making a page for a company that owns several cinemas/theatres. Each cinema has its own programme, open hours etc. Thus, the site structure would look something like this:

../theatres/apollo/programme
../theatres/apollo/open-hours
../theatres/grand-theatre/programme
../theatres/grand-theatre/open-hours
../theatres/royal-cinema/programme
../theatres/royal-cinema/open-hours
etc.

Because of the limitations I mentioned before, CMSMS will make the structure like so:

../theatres/apollo/programme
../theatres/apollo/open-hours
../theatres/grand-theatre/programme-2
../theatres/grand-theatre/open-hours-2
../theatres/royal-cinema/programme-3
../theatres/royal-cinema/open-hours-3
etc.

Now, I'm no SEO expert, but I figure if it looks weird in the address bar, won't it look weird in google search results?

I wouldn't mind helping out developing a solution for this, but since I'm still new to CMSMS I might be entirely wrong
Let me hear your thoughts on this.

Thanks

I wouldn't mind helping out developing a solution for this, but since I'm still new to CMSMS I might be entirely wrong

You're entirely wrong.... google, and the other search engines don't care if there's a -2 or a -3 or whatever at the end of the URL and it makes absolutely no difference in scoring.

We've had this discussion before.

a) users don't guess URLS they follow links and bookmark them
b) search engines don't guess URLS either, they follow them.