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What does URL friendly mean?
A friendly URL is a web address that is readable to both a human user of the website and a search engine spider. Regarding SEO, friendly URLs can also include page specific keywords to help improve the relevance of those pages.
What is the role of a URL?
It is the mechanism used by browsers to retrieve any published resource on the web. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is nothing more than the address of a given unique resource on the Web. In theory, each valid URL points to a unique resource.
What does managed navigation mean for a website?
Managed navigation lets you define and maintain your site navigation by using term sets. With managed navigation, it’s not the location of your content that defines where in the navigation your content will appear, but how you tag your content with terms from a term set. Managed navigation creates friendly URLs.
Managed navigation creates friendly URLs. In previous versions of SharePoint, the URL to a page contained a reference to the Pages library and any folders within that library, for example: http://www.contoso.com/pages/products/cameras/camera-accessories.aspx.
Adding a page by using the New Document button on the Files tab in the ribbon does not create a new term in the navigation term set. Each term in a navigation term set has a friendly URL that loads a physical page in the context of that term. Terms in the navigation term set can be configured to do one of the following:
When to use structural navigation or managed navigation in SharePoint?
In SharePoint, you can choose between two navigation methods: structural navigation or managed navigation when you’ve enabled the publishing feature on your classic SharePoint experience site. Structural navigation is based on site structure. Managed navigation is based on term sets. Managed navigation lets you define and maintain your site