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Posted: **Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:50 am**

Hello,
I have a question, is it possible to remove the index.php?route=common/home part for all links referring to Home, so that http://site.com/index.php?route=common/home becomes just http://site.com/ ?
I think it's not good for SEO to have two home URLs with duplicate content

Posted: **Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:44 am**

just alter the htacess file to rewrite index.php?route=common/home to just /

Posted: **Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:55 pm**

I think won't stop Google from indexing the http://site.com/index.php?route=common/home page.
Maybe the better solution is to remove all these links in the controller:

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$this->document->breadcrumbs[] = array(
      		'href'      => HTTP_SERVER . 'index.php?route=common/home',
   		...

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$this->document->breadcrumbs[] = array(
      		'href'      => HTTP_SERVER,
   		...

I wonder, what was the reason to use the 1st variant and not the 2nd for all pages in the controller?

Posted: **Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:04 pm**

see this post for a better way of doing it and also making all the other index.php?route= urls more SEO friendly

http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 72#p164179

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:42 am**

Bit late to the party, but it seems there are loads of ways to do this.

If, like me, you like abit of hackery, you can put this hack into catalog > controller > common > seo_url.php (assuming V1.5.6)

find (near bottom):

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} else {
			return $link;
		}

replace with:

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} else {
			if(strpos($link,'index.php?route=common/home')){
				$link = str_replace('index.php?route=common/home','',$link);
			}
			return $link;
		}

Simple enough. I know it's hacking core files, but let's face it, we're not going to be upgrading a client's site anytime soon... and it works, everytime

Posted: **Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:16 pm**

http://marketinsg.com/clean-seo-url solves all this easily

Posted: **Sat Oct 26, 2013 8:01 pm**

Bit late to the party, but it seems there are loads of ways to do this.

If, like me, you like abit of hackery, you can put this hack into catalog > controller > common > seo_url.php (assuming V1.5.6)

find (near bottom):

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} else {
return $link;
}

replace with:

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} else {
if(strpos($link,'index.php?route=common/home')){
$link = str_replace('index.php?route=common/home','',$link);
}
return $link;
}

Simple enough. I know it's hacking core files, but let's face it, we're not going to be upgrading a client's site anytime soon... and it works, everytime

Worked a treat - is there a similar way for changing the file path names for account/checkout etc?

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