Cannot change canonical

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.3
-- Joomla version -- : 3.6.0
-- PHP version -- : 7.1

Hi,

We discover that there’s something going wrong with our URL’s, canonicals and Google. So I tried:
- Set up everything good, I’ve placed the settings on:

Here is the screenshot:



Here is the screenshot:



- Clean the canonicals with Mass Action and set all to 0
- Generate new canonical by clicking on the product page
- Cleaning all possible cache

But whatever I do I get this url:
“Website”/index.php?option=com_hikashop&view=product&layout=show&Itemid=3227


What I like is something like:
“Website”/”our product name”

According to the manual, it must be something like:



But even changing settings in above screenshot does not influence anything whatever I do I get:
“Website”/index.php?option=com_hikashop&view=product&layout=show&Itemid=3227


Please help.

Wella

Hi Nicolas,


Thanks for your reply.

Points are the following:
1. We have large website (2,500+ products) so we need complex caching
2. Complex caching needs as far as we understand 1 unique canonical what must be equal to the URL what must be a search friendly URL
3. As you also advised in some topics about SEO switch off Joomla SEF URL
4. But we don’t have control over the canonicals, we get a horrible thing but not a search friendly one.

So the questions are:
Do we understand this correct?
How can we handle this.
And or is Hikashop coming with a better canonical handling


Wella