duplicate content on parent and sub categories

I have a o/c 2.0.3.1 store and I need bit of help with duplicate content and canonical urls. If I visit https://www.domain.co.uk/shop/Cables-Ad ... -Lightning and https://www.domain.co.uk/shop/Apple-Lightning, they are the same content and worried Google is seeing duplicate content. The categories, subcategories and products are imported from a suppliers feed

I checked the source code and both urls have canonical urls, the first urls canonical is <link href="https://www.domain.co.uk/shop/Cables-Ad ... -Lightning" rel="canonical" /> and the second url canonical is <link href="https://www.domain.co.uk/shop/Apple-Lightning" rel="canonical" />

I am worried Google is getting confused and seeing duplicate content

Is there anything I can do to fix it so it goes to only one url such as https://www.domain.co.uk/shop/Cables-Ad ... -Lightning and the same for all other parent and sub categories so if try to visit https://www.domain.co.uk/shop/sucategoryname it redirects to https://www.domain.co.uk/shop/parent-ca ... ubcategory

Hopefully that makes sense

Not sure if have solved it but I found the following line in catalog/controller/product/category.php
I commented out that line and only got the canonical tag showing in the parent category url now at https://www.it-doneright.co.uk/shop/Cab ... -Lightning

I can still access both pages as different urls https://www.it-doneright.co.uk/shop/Cab ... -Lightning and https://www.it-doneright.co.uk/shop/Apple-Lightning but only the first parent category url shows the canonical tag

I am guessing that’s a good thing as will work that way and Google now won’t see duplicate content as am guessing it’s now telling Google that https://www.it-doneright.co.uk/shop/Cab ... -Lightning is the main url

Is that right and would that work?

I suggest you buy an SEO extension to fix this.

paulfeakins wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:53 pm

I suggest you buy an SEO extension to fix this.

Is there any you recommend?

ianhaney wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 01, 2020 8:03 pm

Is there any you recommend?

I'd recommend reading this to help you find one:
https://www.antropy.co.uk/blog/how-to-f ... xtensions/