[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Hikashop Category and Product Display ## - **[kollol](/forum/user/19077-kollol "View kollol's Profile")** - [![kollol's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/19077-kollol "View kollol's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/19077-kollol) Less More - Posts: 5 - Thank you received: 0 - - 13 years 4 months ago [\#111468](#111468) by [kollol](/forum/user/19077-kollol "View kollol's Profile") *[Hikashop Category and Product Display](/forum/4-how-to/84345-hikashop-category-and-product-display#111468 "Hi, First of all sorry for this post. But, I'm still struggling to understand and control the product and category urls of hikashop. The joomla menu of my site home page is set as product listing and the associate category set as root. When I click on any of the product listed there I see the SEF url is like: "mysite/product/product_id-product-name" I have 6 product categories and thus I created 6 joomla menus which list all products from specific category. Thus I see the SEF url is like: mysite/menu-alias/product/product_id-product-name-alias 1. Do I need to assign every hikashop product to a joomla menu (like joomla article) to have a unique SEF? I don't want multiple SEF in my site for a single product 2. what does the product "Canonical URL" do in hikashop? 3. I'm still confused about the display and control on their views. I read the documentation quickly and thought it would be great if anybody could explain the concept a bit differently. Sorry, for raising this point as I'm just working on Hikashop. Thanks, Kollol")* was created by *[kollol](/forum/user/19077-kollol "View kollol's Profile")* Hi, First of all sorry for this post. But, I'm still struggling to understand and control the product and category urls of hikashop. The joomla menu of my site home page is set as product listing and the associate category set as root. When I click on any of the product listed there I see the SEF url is like: **"mysite/product/product\_id-product-name"** I have 6 product categories and thus I created 6 joomla menus which list all products from specific category. Thus I see the SEF url is like: **mysite/menu-alias/product/product\_id-product-name-alias** 1. Do I need to assign every hikashop product to a joomla menu (like joomla article) to have a unique SEF? I don't want multiple SEF in my site for a single product 2. what does the product "Canonical URL" do in hikashop? 3. I'm still confused about the display and control on their views. I read the documentation quickly and thought it would be great if anybody could explain the concept a bit differently. Sorry, for raising this point as I'm just working on Hikashop. Thanks, Kollol Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzg0MzQ1LWhpa2FzaG9wLWNhdGVnb3J5LWFuZC1wcm9kdWN0LWRpc3BsYXk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86320 - Thank you received: 14279 - - 13 years 4 months ago [\#111483](#111483) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Hikashop Category and Product Display](/forum/4-how-to/84345-hikashop-category-and-product-display#111483 "Hi, First of all sorry for this post. But, I'm still struggling to understand and control the product and category urls of hikashop. The joomla menu of my site home page is set as product listing and the associate category set as root. When I click on any of the product listed there I see the SEF url is like: "mysite/product/product_id-product-name" I have 6 product categories and thus I created 6 joomla menus which list all products from specific category. Thus I see the SEF url is like: mysite/menu-alias/product/product_id-product-name-alias 1. Do I need to assign every hikashop product to a joomla menu (like joomla article) to have a unique SEF? I don't want multiple SEF in my site for a single product 2. what does the product "Canonical URL" do in hikashop? 3. I'm still confused about the display and control on their views. I read the documentation quickly and thought it would be great if anybody could explain the concept a bit differently. Sorry, for raising this point as I'm just working on Hikashop. Thanks, Kollol")* Hi, 1. That won't give you a unique SEF URL for each product. You don't need to have a unique SEF URL for the products of your website. 2. That's actually what you're looking for I think. That canonical URL field allows you to tell search engine that the URL that you enter in that field is the main URL of the product and that they should use that one and ignore the others. That way, even if you have several URLs going to your products, search engines won't penalize your ranking and will use that URL you want in their search results. 3. You question it a bit too broad to say anything useful. What do you mean by "display and control" ? And you talking about the edition of the code of the views via the menu Display->Views ? The following user(s) said Thank You: [kollol](/forum/user/19077-kollol "View kollol's Profile") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzg0MzQ1LWhpa2FzaG9wLWNhdGVnb3J5LWFuZC1wcm9kdWN0LWRpc3BsYXk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[kollol](/forum/user/19077-kollol "View kollol's Profile")** - [![kollol's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/19077-kollol "View kollol's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/19077-kollol) Less More - Posts: 5 - Thank you received: 0 - - 13 years 4 months ago [\#111528](#111528) by [kollol](/forum/user/19077-kollol "View kollol's Profile") Replied by *[kollol](/forum/user/19077-kollol "View kollol's Profile")* on topic *[Hikashop Category and Product Display](/forum/4-how-to/84345-hikashop-category-and-product-display#111528 "Hi, First of all sorry for this post. But, I'm still struggling to understand and control the product and category urls of hikashop. The joomla menu of my site home page is set as product listing and the associate category set as root. When I click on any of the product listed there I see the SEF url is like: "mysite/product/product_id-product-name" I have 6 product categories and thus I created 6 joomla menus which list all products from specific category. Thus I see the SEF url is like: mysite/menu-alias/product/product_id-product-name-alias 1. Do I need to assign every hikashop product to a joomla menu (like joomla article) to have a unique SEF? I don't want multiple SEF in my site for a single product 2. what does the product "Canonical URL" do in hikashop? 3. I'm still confused about the display and control on their views. I read the documentation quickly and thought it would be great if anybody could explain the concept a bit differently. Sorry, for raising this point as I'm just working on Hikashop. Thanks, Kollol")* Thanks Nicolas. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzg0MzQ1LWhpa2FzaG9wLWNhdGVnb3J5LWFuZC1wcm9kdWN0LWRpc3BsYXk/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. Board Categories HikaShop Install & Update Product & Category Display Content Creation Sales and Orders Orders management Reports & Statistics Customers Checkout Payment Methods Shipping Methods Import & Export (CSV, XLS…) Specific Features Affilation Taxes Wishlist Vote Carousel & Slider Mass Actions Filters & Search Discount & Coupon Feature Request Integrations Showcase General Talk about HikaShop Development HikaShop 3.0 Beta Translation Commercial Jobs HikaShop Components HikaMarket Market: Feature requests Market: How to? Market: Bug Report HikaSerial General talk about HikaSerial Serial: Bug Report Serial: How to? 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