Hi,
I have tried to set the canonical field. This would probably tidy up Google, however, when a user clicks a product it takes them to main category, losing their visit linked to the town they searched.
If you set the canonical URL of the product while you keep the "force canonical URLs on listings" setting turned off, you can do both:
- search engines will still register the canonical URL and won't penalize you for having several URLs going to your product
- users will be able to access the product page from different URLs.
Setting the canonical resolves this, but will it break my aim of Google find each town.
In any case, you want to set a canonical URL for SEO. Regarding the indexing of products to be linked to searches of towns, I think you want to use a different approach. Like for example adding the town name(s) in the keywords setting of your products and their description.
I didn't plan to, but my site map doesn't list them and I hoped to speed up Google indexing by listing them on the Site Map.
If you're using OSMap four your site map, you can use the integration plugin we provide to add the products to the site map. I don't think it requires the Pro version of OSMap:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/8...ation-with-xmap.html