Duplicate pages without canonical

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2 years 5 months ago #344277

-- HikaShop version -- : 4.6.1
-- Joomla version -- : 3.10.10
-- PHP version -- : 7.4.30
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : ALL
-- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : N/A

Hey Hika Team!
I have pulled my Hikashop website into Ahrefs...
It states that I have 1340 Duplicate pages without canonical.
Their explanation is here : help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/2596742-dupl...-error-in-site-audit
The page I see when I look at the Hikashop page are all the pages when a visitor clicks on the "Contact us for more information"
Example : demo.hikashop.com/index.php/en/hikashop/...roduct/contact/cid-4
What can I do about this? Is there some setting in Hikashop I didn't get right?

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2 years 5 months ago #344294

Hi,

I'm surprised this tool would flag the contact pages.
If you look at the HTML of the contact us buttons, you can see this:
i.imgur.com/XMFlbfe.png
So HikaShop asks search engines to not follow/index the contact buttons.
And thus the fact that different URLs lead to the same contact form page is irrelevant.

Now, what you can do is add the code:

<?php
	$doc = JFactory::getDocument();
	$doc->addHeadLink(hikashop_cleanURL(hikashop_completeLink('product&task=contact'.$this->url_itemid)), 'canonical');
?>
at the beginning of the view file product / contact in the menu Display>Views.
That way, even if ahrefs ignores the nofollow/noindex on the buttons, it won't complain about the contact form pages.
But it won't change anything for your SEO.

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