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Hi all,
I currently have my site hosted in another server. When I designed the website I made it so the product’s URL would be like this: mywebsite.com/product1.html

Is it possible to leave the collection slug empty using webflow collections? It seems that I need to give a collection slug and my website would show mywebsite.com/products/product1.html.

The reason I’m asking is because my site is well ranked in Google and I’m affraid it would ruin my SEO or maybe make users go to a broken link.

If not possible, the only other way I can think of to solve this is by using a 301 redirect (exhausting since I have many products).

Thanks!

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301 is the way as you won’t get rid of the slug for now.

Luckily, Webflow crafted a system where you can bulk create multiple 301 rules using wildcards.

Can you read here and come back with more questions if needed?

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Thank you! It would be great that in the future we could leave the collection slug empty. But for now I’ll go with your solution

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Other CMS such as Wordpress have tons of options regarding CMS URL building. It’s a somehow important feature, although in my experience, even when it’s asked by clients, it doesn’t end being a deal breaker point. I’m 100% sure this feature will come to Webflow one day.

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