Make Clean URLs in Bubble with Slugs - Bubble.io Tutorial 

Hey Cody, good question for clarification about the sitemap, it could be clearer. Bubble will not expose a sitemap to all the dynamic pages. It will expose only a sitemap of the static pages. My suggestion is essentially saying (1) build a sitemap to house all of the dynamic pages and (2) get a head start on building that sitemap. To do that, first (a) expose the sitemap via the checkbox at the 9:25 ish mark so you can get the format straight and then (b) build the rest of the sitemap out to include all of the dynamic URLs in the same format as given by Bubble's exposed sitemap. Once you've built that, then you'd go back to uncheck "Expose a sitemap file" and the final two steps are to upload that sitemap.xml file to the root directory as suggested at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FGTh7Xyr99A.html and then list that sitemap's URL in the robots.txt file. For a single page app, follow the advice in the SEO for Bubble app but you'd only have one page instead of multiple. Take advantage of various heading tags, h1, h2, h3, etc. Lastly, check out Brian Dean's backlinko.com site for link building tips and consider finding ways to have more pages on the app.. since if we use a fishing analogy, each page is like a line in the water of Google's vast search ocean that could reel in a visitor. Good luck.

Cody, did you figure out how to use URL slugs on a single page? My app is single page as well - and the issue I'm running into is that I cannot set the "Type of Content" on the index page since it will throw a bunch of errors. Any advice?

Hey Borja, this is a bit of an edge case, but I'll tell you what I know and perhaps between this advice and some ChatGPT troubleshooting, it can get you there. My understanding is that having pretty URLs (aka slugs) is just a directive for whoever is hosting that domain (in this case, Bubble) to know where to go and get the resources in order to render the page. So in the traditional use case of setting Bubble slugs (or having Bubble auto-generate them, which it does when using Bubble for the database but with an external database, it wouldn't and this is the sticking point) allows us to use the pretty URL directive to then render a page that Google (and users) could read at that address (instead of the query-string-parameter heavy URLs of web development days past). I think that even the workflow of setting a thing's slug wouldn't work because you don't have an item in Bubble's database to set a slug on. Solution -- my guess would be that a lightweight duplication of your external database just so that the page could be rendered using Bubble's under-the-hood slug feature. By that I mean, if you had Airbnb listings, you'd just be duplicating a 1-to-1 list of all the listings, but not the photos, location, description, reviews etc. Hope that helps.

Hey thanks for the kind words. I think I understand your point about wanting clean URLs for elements on the page that could be in various states. Is that accurate? Meaning, you're not looking to do what we did here at 5:42 where this "single page" for abandoned locations has a slug set for it to have the clean URL. It's something different you're wanting, like you want the page to load (a) with the clean URL but also (b) with the second picture loaded onto the slider or some other secondary state be set based on the URL? By v= you mean a query string parameter? To shift from that to a perspective I'll share is that I believe a strong reason must exist in order to use a single page when it would make more sense to split it into their own pages. Building a mobile app is a strong reason because it needs to be single page, but building a dashboard with tabbed menus.. it could go either way in that case but be prepared you may need to make tradeoffs. Also, notable in the case of a mobile app, the need for pretty URLs goes away and managing everything through query string parameters works just fine. I don't feel like I got to the crux of your question but hopefully some of those points bring up ideas that may help.