How to set canonical urls for categories?

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9 years 9 months ago #209096

-- url of the page with the problem -- : infinitemandala.com/shop/opere-arte
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.5.0

Hello,
I have a couple fo issues with duplicate content:

1 - My Hikashop categories are very similar in term of contents to some Joomla articles which describe the products of each category, so I'd like to set a canonical url for each category pointing to the relative Joomla article, I tried to do so using the "canonical url" field in the category setting, but doing so results in the category being linked to the Joomla article !? (meaning that when I click on the category name or image I am redirected to the Joomla article for which I set the canonical url in the category settings)

2 - I have many extremely similar products, everything is the same but the product image. To avoid duplicate contents penalties I'd like to create canonical urls pointing all to one product or to the Joomla article describing the products of that category. Is this someway possible to achieve?

Thank you,
Nic

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9 years 9 months ago #209124

Hi,

1. If you don't want that, you can turn off the "force canonical URLs on listings" setting of the HikaShop configuration.

2. Like for the categories, you can enter the URL of one of the product, or a Joomla article in your products' canonical URL field so that search engines will know that there are the same content.

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9 years 9 months ago #209153

1 - I tried to set a canonical url for a category pointing to a Joomla article, but doing so results in the category being linked to the Joomla article !? (meaning that when I click on the category name or image I am redirected to the Joomla article for which I set the canonical url in the category settings)







category page: infinitemandala.com/shop/opere-arte

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9 years 9 months ago #209170

Hi,

I understand that and that's normal since you have the "force canonical URLs on listings" setting of the HikaShop configuration turned on. That's why, in my previous message, I asked you to turn it off.

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9 years 9 months ago #209249

Thank you, everything works now!

You have been really helpful :)

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