If you use Yext Listings to manage your location data across directories and search engines, you can keep your Pages URLs automatically in sync with the websiteUrl field in Listings. This ensures visitors always see consistent, brand-verified URLs — even as your site evolves.

How It Works

Every time you create a page group, Pages automatically:

1. Creates a custom URL field on the entity type
2. Configures a writeback to populate that field with the live URL for each page
3. Updates the field whenever a page URL changes

This happens without any manual configuration. The auto-generated field follows the naming pattern:

c_{site_name}_{page_group_name}_{random_hash}_url

For example: c_locationsSite_storePages_a7f3_url

When writebacks are triggered:

• Publishing to production — Runs whenever you publish a deployment
• Domain reassignment — If you attach a new domain to your site, a writeback runs for every page to update URLs to reflect the new domain
• Data updates — Each time a page regenerates because of a Knowledge Graph entity change, Yext checks whether the URL changed and writes it back if so

Map the Writeback Field to Listings

After your page group is created and your site is published to production, the auto-generated URL field will be populated for each entity.

To connect it to Listings:

1. Navigate to the Knowledge Graph and open any location entity.
2. Find the auto-generated URL field using the naming pattern above. Confirm it's populated with the live URL for that location.
3. Navigate to your Listings configuration and map this field to websiteUrl.

From this point on, any URL changes are picked up by Listings automatically.

Verify Writeback Activity

To confirm writebacks are running correctly:

1. Navigate to Pages > [Your Site] > Deploys.
2. Open the Data Updates tab.
3. Review the writeback log for your page group. Successful writes are listed alongside any failures with error details.

If you see failures, check that the auto-generated URL field is still present on the entity type and hasn't been deleted or modified.