Robots Instructions

-- url of the page with the problem -- : n/a
-- HikaShop version -- : x2.2.3
-- Joomla version -- : 2.5.19

I can see how to add Robots Meta Tag to an article in Joomla! to hide the content from search engines, but I cannot see a Robots field in the product screen of the HikaShop control panel.

If a website contains many products of almost identical description, can you similarly prevent search engines from browsing all except a small number of product listings (to avoid duplication)?

Note: there is no Product Menu in place. Products are all listedc by category in front end.

Hi,

You have to use the "url canonical" to avoid duplication in search engines.

Regards,

OK - so far so good.

I have read various posts and looked through Documentation but cannot find a useful simple guide to choosing and inserting the canonical URL in the field.

Is this what should be done?

1) visit website front end and navigate to a product;
2) copy from browser address bar everything after http://yourdomain/
3) paste this string into the canonical URL field for the product

Would be good to add to the guide for Product and Category Pages.

Am I right in assuming whatever is entered in the field will be presented to search bots as a

<link rel="canonical" /> tag

Thanks - Ken

Yes, that's indeed the case.
And yes, what you put in there will be set in the canonical tag of the page.