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title: Setting page aliases for content-only pages
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/adding-alternative-urls-for-pages.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/creating-and-configuring-page-types/creating-content-only-page-types.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/configuring-page-urls-on-mvc-sites.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

[Content-only](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/creating-and-configuring-page-types/creating-content-only-page-types.md) pages in Kentico allow you to define a page alias as part of their URL. A page alias is the part of the URL that identifies the page using human-readable keywords. Usually, the page alias is something that describes the given content. One of the motivations for using page aliases to identify pages is to improve the site's [SEO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization).

For example, a page alias for an article that talks about coffee brewing techniques could be defined as "coffee-brewing-techniques". The way page aliases are used on your website depends on how you want the URLs of content on your site to look.

> **Note:** **Note**: Page aliases only affect pages that have an appropriately configured page type. If you are a developer or administrator, see [Configuring page URLs on MVC sites](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/configuring-page-urls-on-mvc-sites.md) to learn more.

To define the page alias for content-only pages:

1. Open the **Pages** application.
2. Click on the page for which you want to define a page alias. This needs to be a [content-only](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/developing-websites/defining-website-content-structure/creating-and-configuring-page-types/creating-content-only-page-types.md) page.
3. Open the **Properties -> Page alias** tab.
4. Enter a page alias into the **Page alias** field.
5. Click **Save**.

The page now uses the defined page alias as its identifier.

> **Tip:** **Tip**: When working on MVC sites, you can also make pages available under any number of alternative URLs. While page aliases can affect the main URL of a page, alternative URLs can give you even more flexibility when it comes to providing short and relevant-looking links. For more information, see [Adding alternative URLs for pages](https://docs.kentico.com/k12sp/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/adding-alternative-urls-for-pages.md).