Way back in the SiteBuilder days, a product URL would look like this: https://www.mystore.com/Category/SubCategory/my-item. When SCA was implemented, it just became https://www.mystore.com/my-item. Is there a way to include that Commerce Category data in the URL structure of an item like we could "back in my day"? I'm aware of URL aliases, but they don't allow you to include any character that isn't a hyphen or an underscore.

No. Why do you want to do that?

I know I ran into this problem as well and the reason I was wanting to do this is for organization purposes and for having some structure to your site. Mine was not necessarily

/Category/SubCategory/my-item

but more along the lines of

/shop/my-item

. The blog extension utilizes this same thinking by doing

/blog/my-blog-post

. This really helps on organizing your site when running spidering software like ScreamingFrog. They allow you to filter and categorize based on subdirectories.

@Steve Goldberg SEO reasons. Allows URLs to be more descriptive without having to keyword-stuff the URL component of the item.

It actually doesn’t have much of an SEO impact. Google has come out and said it doesn’t really matter. The length of the URL seems like it matters more. I was actually surprised by this because I thought url hierarchy mattered as well. There are some other links in this link below that are worth reading as well. https://www.seroundtable.com/google-deep-subfolders-urls-seo-32818.html

Yes, this is why I asked. It is a red herring when it comes to SEO

Yup, I believe the confusion over this came from subdomain vs subdirectory. The reason I went down that rabbit hole was because our CMO was asking so he could organize in screaming frog