I have read the OC automatically makes canonical any duplicate products. Is this the case and if so, which particular product url will it use as the main one?
Thanks!
I've looked but I haven't been able to find anything clear on the subject. Maybe I'm not searching for the right phrases.
So apparently Opencart automatically uses canonical for duplicate content but from what I read it doesn't point to any one particular page as the real content. It seems that the best solution is to use a seo mod so I got the pretty damn sexy url extension.
It's been gone over a million times and not to be rude, but is it really that hard to just look at the HTML source code of your pages and see what OpenCart does? I just don't see the point of speculating (wrongly) without any evidence.
To answer your question, OpenCart generates canonical SEOs for all product pages in the form of:
Or
If SEO keywords are enabled and active for the product.
To answer your question, OpenCart generates canonical SEOs for all product pages in the form of:
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<link href="http://storeurl.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=#" rel="canonical" />Code: Select all
<link href="http://storeurl.com/product-seo-keyword" rel="canonical" />-Ryan
I'm new to opencart and ecommerce in general. I still make newby errors and am not well versed on canonicalization. My main concern was which one of the actual product pages would be recognized as the main product. I realize that all the others say they are canonical but I don't think anyone has answered which page would be pointed at as the "official" page so to speak. So if a product is in 5 different categories, which link would be used as the "official" content?
I'm sorry I guess I don't understand fully how canonicalization works. I'll have to look into it further. Thank you for your information.
All product pages, no matter what category they're in or how you got to them, point to a canonical URL in the form of:
OR
If SEO keywords are enabled.
So it doesn't matter if the URL is
OR
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They will all point to the same single product URL in the examples I gave.
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http://storeurl.com/product-seo-keywordSo it doesn't matter if the URL is
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http://storeurl.com/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=iphone&product_id=40Code: Select all
http://storeurl.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=24_36_37&product_id=40Code: Select all
http://storeurl.com/phones-and-pdas/apple/iphone-Ryan
I'm confused. If I have seo urls and 1 product can be found in 5 different categories is there one url that all of the others point to or am I thinking of canonicalization all wrong?
From your own shop visible on the web, click on that product in each of those five categories and view the page source code to see if only one of the versions shows the canonical meta tag...SteveWylde wrote:I'm confused. If I have seo urls and 1 product can be found in 5 different categories is there one url that all of the others point to or am I thinking of canonicalization all wrong?
Consideration must given to assigning a sort order to parent categories, the (numerically) lowest of those sort orders determines which category becomes the "parent" of the canonical URL.
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There are no categories in product canonical URLs. It's a direct product link in the form I posted earlier.VictorDrummond wrote:Consideration must given to assigning a sort order to parent categories, the (numerically) lowest of those sort orders determines which category becomes the "parent" of the canonical URL.
-Ryan
Thanks guys I had my thinking all backwards. So the product url that is in the root domain directory, such as horsefart.com/product-url gets the canonical tag and all of the other products are recognized as duplicates? Have I finally got this right? Sorry for the newb action.
Yes!SteveWylde wrote:Thanks guys I had my thinking all backwards. So the product url that is in the root domain directory, such as horsefart.com/product-url gets the canonical tag and all of the other products are recognized as duplicates? Have I finally got this right? Sorry for the newb action.
I started using SEO-urls and then it is even more clear how it works.
Google sees: \domain\product-name.
Even if you have your product added to several categories it still uses the \domain\product-name.
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Thanks for the feedback i2Paq. I use seo urls also but I bought a mod that all products use the domain root url so canonicalization is not needed. It works great. http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=6580
You also need the mod to fix breadcrumbs that the devloper offers if you use the above mod.
You also need the mod to fix breadcrumbs that the devloper offers if you use the above mod.
Still, the default way OC handles multiple urls works great, why add another modification?SteveWylde wrote:Thanks for the feedback i2Paq. I use seo urls also but I bought a mod that all products use the domain root url so canonicalization is not needed. It works great. http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=6580
You also need the mod to fix breadcrumbs that the devloper offers if you use the above mod.
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i2Paq wrote:Still, the default way OC handles multiple urls works great, why add another modification?SteveWylde wrote:Thanks for the feedback i2Paq. I use seo urls also but I bought a mod that all products use the domain root url so canonicalization is not needed. It works great. http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=6580
You also need the mod to fix breadcrumbs that the devloper offers if you use the above mod.
I just like that all products are in the domain root so shorter URLs are indexed.
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