Categories and google results

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9 years 3 months ago #241678

-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.giakourtines.gr/component/hikashop/category/20-
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.6
-- PHP version -- : 5.3.29
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : GOOGLE 50.0.2661.102

Good afternoon,
i am using business edition of hikashop.when i search on google for my site based on keywords i find links of my site that in fact i have never set in my site and if i look for them in the site they dont exist.however these links works but i dont know how to fix them.for example i search in google for the word in greek "sweing curtains" and google returns to me a link of my category sweing curtain but not the correct.this is happening with the categories.this is what google returned www.giakourtines.gr/component/hikashop/category/20- and this is the category and link that i have set and asigned to menu www.giakourtines.gr/kourtines/kourtinesrammenes .I hope that you did understand me.its hard to explain

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9 years 3 months ago #241683

Hi,

Both links are valid links for HikaShop.

It could be that these links existed before and now don't exist anymore but google still reference them.
To get the correct links indexed by Google, in the "canonical URL" field of your products and categories enter the URL that you want. That way, next time the page is indexed, the search engines will know which URL is the one that should be used for the search results.

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9 years 2 months ago #245046

In the categories i put canonical urls, though i didnt in products because i have many products.Its long time that i did that change and still i have same problems with google result. Do i have to make changes in "Force canonical URLs on listings" option?Now i have the option "No generate the url"

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9 years 2 months ago #245055

Hi,

If you set the "Force canonical URLs on listings" setting to "Use canonical URL and generate it if missing", HikaShop will fill automatically the products canonical URLs so it will prevent duplicate content issues on the product pages.

But if google has wrong links that don't exist anymore, you could ask it to remove them:
support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

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