SEO Problem - duplicate content & showing subcategories

Post by AlmightyNinja » Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:22 pm

Hellow,
I'm new - as OpenCart user and forum member so first hi to everbody . I have a problem that I don't know how to solve with duplicate content. Here is what I'm reffering to for example:
http://sexydress.us/long-sleeve-top
http://sexydress.us/sexy-lingerie/long-sleeve-top
http://sexydress.us/sexy-lingerie/linge ... sleeve-top
Same product that you can access through all of the above links ( it depends on how you access them if from frontpage it's a direct link without category, if from category you get category + product, .... ) and I would like that it would be available only for example through http://sexydress.us/sexy-lingerie/linge ... sleeve-top so if product is in subcategory it's unique URL would be in http://sexydress.us/category/subcategory/product. Is that possible?

And the other problem is with showing subcategories on frontpage in the right side of the content if now only shows parent categories and doesn't show children categories is that possible that it would show categories and all of the subcategories?

Hope I was understandable . Thanks for all of the replies.

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Post by kyprios1 » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:24 am

@combusus your mod is working great apart from one glitch i found.
When there are subcategories it mashes the cat+subcat aliases together.

edit
I fixed it. at line 43:

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<        return implode('',$result);
>        return implode('/',$result);

you missed it proly

edit2
It does produce an extra slash in front of the parent category though when coming from a tag or search and the destination is a product with one category depth i.e. domain.com//cat/product?filter_name=blablah. If the product is in a subcategory the url is ok. Anyway as long as you're keeping the base href statement in the header it is not a problem, the browser follows the url ok.

In retrospect I think you didn't really miss the slash fix I mentioned above, nonetheless for lack of a better solution on the catsubcat mashup problem, i'm keeping that in for now.

Post by kyprios1 » Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:01 am

<        return implode('',$result);

>        $pathsld = implode('/',$result);
>        $pathcnd = ltrim($pathsld, '/');
>        return $pathcnd;

Post by Gloyns » Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:09 pm

Hi Everyone Sorry to wade in here. I'm an SEO, not a Developer, so I'm looking at this from just one angle. I appreciate there is an ongoing debate around SEO URLs within Opencart, and this is just my 2 cents.

Whilst Opencart cites a canonical URL for each product, this canonical URL is rarely, if ever, linked to anywhere within a site as the product is always linked to from within a category or manufacturer page. So, the canonical is saying 'Yeah, this is just a copy of the original version of this more important, original, document that you'll find here... which, err, I don't link to anywhere on my website'.

Separate to whether this issue does effect SEO, I would always prefer for each product to always have one URL just to be consistent. Does the fix described here fix that? I'm yet to find a CMS that can effectively deal with this... I'm hoping opencart can.

http://www.gloyns.com

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Post by uksitebuilder » Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:48 pm

			$this->document->addLink($this->url->link('product/product', 'product_id=' . $this->request->get['product_id']), 'canonical');

			if($product_info['manufacturer']){
				$this->document->addLink($this->url->link('product/product', $url . '&manufacturer_id=' . $product_info['manufacturer_id'] . '&product_id=' . $this->request->get['product_id']), 'canonical');
			}else{
				$this->document->addLink($this->url->link('product/product', 'product_id=' . $this->request->get['product_id']), 'canonical');
			}

Post by Gloyns » Tue Sep 20, 2011 12:47 am

Nice, thanks Simon! I also found this post that solves the issue for me perfectly and is, imo, the best solution from an SEO perspective http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 24#p198324

http://www.gloyns.com

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