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2 months 1 week ago #359253

-- url of the page with the problem -- : artisan-pens.com/index.php/home
-- HikaShop version -- : HikaShop Essential 5.0.3
-- Joomla version -- : 4.4.8
-- PHP version -- : 8.1
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome

Hi,

Not sure if this is the correct topic but i am trying to set up a Google Merchant Shop.

Google have successfully indexed 60 pages on my site but has come up with a number of errors, the largest number are:

Duplicate without user-selected canonical or Alternative page with proper canonical tag Indexing not started

I've no idea what this or even canonical mean
The HikaShop generated Canonical URL box contain values that link to a product or category page.

Anyone any idea what this all means?

Thanks in advance

Last edit: 2 months 1 week ago by Pens.

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2 months 1 week ago #359254

Hi,

You can find more information on that error here:
support.google.com/webmasters/thread/225...-canonical-url?hl=en
Basically, it means that you have several URLs leading to the same page.
I checked your website but I didn't see several ways to access the same page, so I'm not sure what's going on. I would need a concrete example with the URLs involved to be able to say more on the reason.
Supposing that the issue is with product pages or listings, in each product and category in the HikaShop backend, you have a "canonical URL" setting, where you can provide the main URL you want to be used.
For example, for the product on the page artisan-pens.com/index.php/pencils/product/40-makore you can provide the canonical URL index.php/pencils/product/40-makore
Also, I can see that you apparently have the joomla system SEF plugin which generate false canonical URLs on your pages. I would recommend disabling it as it's creating more problems than it is solving ( github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/25448 ).
Once you have canonical URLs in your products (and categories ?) and you turn off that SEF plugin, these errors from Google Merchant should hopefully disappear.

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2 months 1 week ago #359266

Thanks for your quick (as always) reply.

The first Duplicate without user-selected canonical is artisan-pens.com/index.php/pen-pencil-sets/product/listing

A number of products are in more than one category, so can be accessed from more than one category i.e.
artisan-pens.com/index.php/masonic/produ...masonic-fountain-pen
can be accessed from
artisan-pens.com/index.php/masonic
and
artisan-pens.com/index.php/hikashop-menu...ory/13-fountain-pens

Also the 'contact us' etc. page can be accessed from almost every page.

Is this likely to cause these problems?

I have disabled the SEF plugin, I didn't know it was enabled :-)

Regards

Nick

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2 months 1 week ago #359268

Hi,

So, based on what you said now, just providing the main URL of the products in their "canonical URL" and having the SEF plugin turned off will fix these Duplicate issues.

For the contact us page, the thing is that there is only one URL to access it. All the links to it on the different pages are the same, so it's not a problem.

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2 months 1 week ago #359276

Thanks, that makes it clearer.

So it's just a matter of going through each product and category and changing the canonical URL to it's own URL?

Nick

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2 months 1 week ago #359277

Yes

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