[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # rel=canonical ## - **[RobertC](/forum/user/21042-robertc "View RobertC's Profile")** - [![RobertC's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar21042.jpg)](/forum/user/21042-robertc "View RobertC's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/21042-robertc) Less More - Posts: 32 - Thank you received: 3 - - 11 years 3 weeks ago [\#217661](#217661) by [RobertC](/forum/user/21042-robertc "View RobertC's Profile") *[rel=canonical](/forum/26-product-category-display/879924-rel-canonical#217661 "-- HikaShop version -- : HikaShop Business: 2.6.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.4.4 -- PHP version -- : 5.4.13 Hi. 1. rel=canonical How should I short the categories at this tag. www.mysite/category/firstcategory www.mysite/category/firstcategory/secondcategory or www.mysite/category/secondcategory I am using sort URLs ( firstcategory.html ) I have multilingual site so in translation I am doing like this. ( firstcategory.html ) ( el/firstcategory.html ) Thank you.")* was created by *[RobertC](/forum/user/21042-robertc "View RobertC's Profile")* -- HikaShop version -- : HikaShop Business: 2.6.0 -- Joomla version -- : 3.4.4 -- PHP version -- : 5.4.13 Hi. 1. rel=canonical How should I short the categories at this tag. [ www.mysite/category/firstcategory](https://www.mysite/category/firstcategory) [ www.mysite/category/firstcategory/secondcategory](https://www.mysite/category/firstcategory/secondcategory) or [ www.mysite/category/secondcategory](https://www.mysite/category/secondcategory) I am using sort URLs ( firstcategory.html ) I have multilingual site so in translation I am doing like this. ( firstcategory.html ) ( el/firstcategory.html ) Thank you. 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( firstcategory.html ) ( el/firstcategory.html ) Thank you.")* Hi, I'm sorry but I don't understand your question. What is the link between shortening the URLs of your categories and "rel=canonical" ? If you want to shorten URLs, usually, you use a SEF extension with URL alias support like SH404SEF. 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( firstcategory.html ) ( el/firstcategory.html ) Thank you.")* The question is which is best way to declare at rel=canonical tag the category and subcategory Should we had to add main category at the canonical link? Or Hikashop will add the word "category" before of each category e.x. 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