It is not possible force canonical url in category listing

Hi,
I have set to force canonical url, but search engines index the product sheet through a category listing that does not correspond to the canonical url.
Google indexes and shows when we visit the product a canonical url that does not correspond to the canonical url that we have created in the product sheet. (item menu home is a item menu type hikashop category listing)
How can I do to block this indexing? and index only the true canonical url.

Thank you
Javier

Hi Nicolas,
It seems that the duplicity of canonical urls comes with the template Helix Ultimate and Joomla, where each one creates a canonical url. I tried to activate the Protostar template and the problem is solved. Then I followed a JoomShaper forum post where they indicate how to cancel the canonical url that Helix needs.
The problem is solved although in future updates I fear that it will happen again if Helix creates a url and Joomla another.

www.joomshaper.com/forums/double-canonical-links-how-to-avoid

Best regards
Javier

Hi,
I think that the problem was not completely solved.
Removing the following line from the template Helix Ultimate

<link rel = "canonical" href = "<? php echo JUri :: getInstance () -> toString ();?>">

I get that Hika products just show one canonical url, ok url canonical product, but all other content that is not from Hika, the html does not show any canonical url (articles, etc ..)

I have tested this situation on 2 sites with the same results. From my point of view, I believe that the communication is not correct between Hikashop and JoomShaper at the time of building the canonical url, but I don't know where the origin is

Best regards
Javier

Hi,

I don't think having canonical url for pages like "returns" will drive you some more traffic from google organic search or make any difference. Canonical url is used to avoid dublicate content.... And you won't get dublicate content for such pages... As example we use canonical only for Hikashop and it works fine. Other pages don't have it and there is no dublicate content indication via google webmasters tool.

However if you still want to have canonical for other pages. You may want to add additional check in Helix Ultimate index.php file like this:

$app  = JFactory::getApplication();
// Detect Active Variable
$option   = $app->input->getCmd('option', '');
// Check If Not Hikashop
if ($option !== 'com_hikashop') {
	echo '<link rel = "canonical" href = "'.JUri :: getInstance () -> toString ().'">';
}