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If you are like me and are creating personal web sites, one of the best ways to gain traffic to your site is through SEO.  I won’t go into detail here as I want to focus on how to setup a route in CakePHP, but having SEO friendly URLs will go a long way in helping.

First let’s define what a “route” is.  In CakePHP it allows you to add a different path to access a specific controller and/or function in that controller.

For example, let’s say I want to create a CMS.  I might create a controller called “StaticContent” and then place a function for each page a client would like to create.  I’m pretty sure I would start getting a lot of calls saying, “Jamie, why is my URL http://www.myaddress.com/StaticContent/myCustomPage?”  So to avoid those calls, we can use a route to make it more accessible and SEO friendly. More »