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.

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