URL's and duplicate products

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8 years 10 months ago #252244

-- url of the page with the problem -- : camtechsystems.co.uk/
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.4
-- Joomla version -- : 3.6.2
-- PHP version -- : 5.6.26

Hi,

I have recently taken on a new SEO consultant and he has sent over a list of things for me to correct on our site.

Currently on of the big issues we have is with products which are being duplicated across categories, see some examples below:

camtechsystems.co.uk/products/operating-...c-fz-f1-4-7-toughpad
camtechsystems.co.uk/products/rugged-pho...c-fz-f1-4-7-toughpad
camtechsystems.co.uk/products/tablet-pc-...c-fz-f1-4-7-toughpad
(only 2 categories associated with the product)

(URLS CUT OUT)

This is quite an extensive list and as an example the first url in the list above doesn't have the catagory "operating systems" associated with it in product/main otions/categories:
camtechsystems.co.uk/products/operating-...c-fz-f1-4-7-toughpad

Not sure how to proceed on this one, do you happen to have any suggestions? Ideally, we need only one URL per product
Kind regards,
Jason Veal

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8 years 10 months ago #252249

Hello,

You have to use the Cannonical Url option in your product configuration.
For this follow these steps :
- Go to Components => HikaShop => Products
- Enter the Products configuration page
- Look for SEO part and found Cannonical Url.



- Fill the input, in order to have for any path only ONE Url for Seo engines.

Hope this will fit your needs.

Regards

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8 years 10 months ago #252331

Thanks for the above.

I have already assigned all my products with the above cannonical URLs. Also I have "Force connonical URL's on listings" set to "use connonical url's if specified"

We also seem to be having some very strange things happen with certain products appearing in what looks like completely the wrong category, for example: camtechsystems.co.uk/products/tablet-pc-...lcd-screen-protector .

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8 years 10 months ago #252344

Hi,

It doesn't matter that the product page can be accessed from different links. As long as there is a canonical URL, Google will reference that main URL and won't flag the other links as duplicated content.
I've checked your links and the canonical URL meta tag in the header of the pages is present and correctly set, so I don't see why that would be a problem for SEO.
Maybe your SEO specialist didn't check/know that ?

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