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title: Discover how URLs work in Xperience
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/development/routing/content-tree-based-routing.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).

Xperience allows you to modify URLs of web pages on the **URLs** tab when editing a page in a website channel application. The system can also track changes of URLs and store old URLs for redirection purposes. These [former URLs](https://docs.kentico.com/modules/work-with-website-content/former-urls.md#former-urls) can be managed in the **URLs** application.

The following types of URLs are available for pages:

- [System URL](https://docs.kentico.com/modules/work-with-website-content/edit-page-urls.md#edit-url-slugs-of-pages)  – Default URL [generated from the page's position in the content tree](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/development/routing/content-tree-based-routing.md) using the page's URL slug and URL slugs of the page's ancestors. The 'slug' is the part that comes at the very end of a URL, and refers to a specific page or post. For example, for the URL _example.com/Articles/News/Tea-Blends/_, the URL slug is _'Tea-Blends_'. For more information about how page URLs are generated, see [Page URL generation](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/development/routing/content-tree-based-routing.md#page-url-generation).
- [Vanity URL](https://docs.kentico.com/modules/work-with-website-content/edit-page-urls.md#edit-vanity-urls-of-pages)  – Alternative URL that can be configured and customized by marketers. One page can have multiple vanity URLs. All configured vanity URLs across all pages are displayed in the **URLs** application. Vanity URLs can serve multiple purposes:
  - Marketing and branding – You can create URLs that promote branding of your products and include recognizable words to improve your marketing reach.
  - Sharing – You can create a URL that is short and can be copied and shared easily, for example, on social media.
  - SEO – You can improve the SEO of the page by including SEO keywords in the URL of the page.
- [Canonical URL](https://docs.kentico.com/modules/work-with-website-content/edit-page-urls.md#select-the-canonical-url-of-pages)  – Preferred URL of a page, i.e., the URL that is displayed to the user in the browser URL bar and is intended to be indexed by search engines. All URLs representing a page redirect to the canonical URL of the page via a "301 Moved Permanently" redirect. By default, the system URL is the canonical URL for each page. You can decide to [set a vanity URL as the canonical URL](https://docs.kentico.com/modules/work-with-website-content/edit-page-urls.md#select-the-canonical-url-of-pages) of a page.

You can also create a temporary [shareable preview URL](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/website-content.md#shareable-preview-urls) and send it to reviewers who can't access the administration. This URL is not intended for regular live site visitors.

![URLs tab overview](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/modules/manage-page-urls/urls-tab-overview.png "URLs tab overview")