Breadcrumb navigation inside the "Latest Products" module

Hello,

I enabled SEO URLs on my OpenCart 1.4.9.3 installation. I assigned SEO keywords to all categories and to all products. Product URLs now look like this:
However, product links inside the "Latest Products" module look like this:
Is there any way to force these product links to include the product category? I don't want two links for each product in my store. One for each is enough, and I prefer the ones including the category.

You can't, and you shouldn't. A product in the "Latest" box could be in 3 or 4 categories, so how do you choose which category to use in the breadcrumbs.

And don't worry about different URLs for the same product. If you look in the product page meta data you will see a rel=canonical link. That is the only one that will be indexed by the search engines. You won't have any duplicate content.

Is there a way to reverse the canonical
Now it shows both as canonical to I want them both to be set canonical to And one more thing: I need the products address output to end at .html, is there any way to do it?
Thanks in advance!

You would need to find which category a product is in and include it in the canonical link. The problem occurs if a product is in more than one category. If you can be sure you will never have a product in more than one category you can try it.

andyspartan has posted a way to get the category ids of the categories a product is in, in your case the one category id, at the bottom of this post:
http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?t=13347

You'll then need to get the category name via the id, then find a way of adding it to the canonical URL. But hope that gets you started.

Why would you want .html at the end of your URLs? There is no reason to have it. .html is dead - buried by dynamic languages such as PHP.

chones, thank you very much for the detailed answer. I assumed .html is better than URLs looking like directories, because there is no .php at the end of the URL. I researched further and you are right, I will not use .html.

I am sure that product will belong to only one product category, but.. I plan to include narrow search - by manufacturer, by product characteristics, by style..
Does this mean that I will not be able to use cannonical for and this is the only possible way:

No, you can have the category in the canonical url. The canonical url only appears on the product page, so it doesn't matter how you got to that category, by whatever search you used.

But honestly, it'd be much easier just to use the category in the product url.

If you want /product-category/product, just change product to include product-category e.g.

If you want mysite.com/t-shirts/white, you can use mysite.com/white-t-shirt instead

That's just as good for SEO - It may actually be better as it is one less step down the folder tree and page rank gets lost at every stage down the folder tree.

The same clever idea came suddenly to me. Your answer prooved it right, thank you Chones.
I also removed the .html from the pages, no need of them really.