Creating Search Engine Optimized Permalinks with Dynamic Slugs Using Elixir

Peter Ullrich from Indie Courses explored the problem of poor SEO rankings for internal course pages due to URL structures. Unlike external courses that used searchable slugs, internal pages had UUID-based URLs. After community consultation, they found a solution that included changing URLs to include both a slug from the course title and a Base62 encoded UUID, ensuring both readability and permanent linking. The Elixir implementation involved using Slugy and Base62UUID libraries to generate and decode the URLs. With this approach, they achieved SEO-friendly permalinks that complement dynamic course titles, benefiting from the advice of the Elixir community and maintaining performance without additional database latency.