Folder Mapping
Folder mapping should only be used in cases where SEO and GEO play no role. This includes authenticated sites, or SPAs that display content that should not be indexed.
Since Folder Mapping causes a number of issues beyond SEO, including an infinite URL space that serves 200, the Folder Mapping is feature flagged to prevent accidental misuse.
Anti-Patterns
Folder mapping should not be used for:
- Sites that have SEO/GEO needs, specifically product information that requires JSON-LD in the initial payload.
- Sites using a combination of a large number of folder-mapped pages and frequently changing metadata. For such use cases, it is better to provide the content via different methods. Talk to your Adobe contact to learn more.
- Mapping of excessively dynamic or infinite URLs like
/search/<query>, dynamic search results are better served via query parameters or URL hash property - Generating non-cacheable content like user specific URLs. This can lead to cache pollution and possible security risks if content is unintentionally cached.
Folder-mapped Metadata
Metadata can be applied on the server-side to all folder-mapped pages. For example, if /templates/ is folder-mapped to /templates/default, metadata in /templates/default/metadata will be applied to all pages below /templates/ if the URL pattern matches.
See Bulk Metadata for expected format and supported properties.