Problems with canonical urls / redirect (magento webshop)
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Hi all,
We're running a Magento webshop and we discover some strangs things regarding canonical urls and redirects after using the Amasty improved navigation extension. To clarify, please check these four urls. They contain the same content (the same product page).
- https://www.afwerkingshop.be/gyproc-gipskartonplaat-ak-2600x1200x9-5mm.html
- https://www.afwerkingshop.be/wanden/gyproc-gipskartonplaat-ak-2600x1200x9-5mm.html
- https://www.afwerkingshop.be/wanden/gipsplaten/gyproc-gipskartonplaat-ak-2600x1200x9-5mm.html
- https://www.afwerkingshop.be/wanden/gipsplaten/standaard/gyproc-gipskartonplaat-ak-2600x1200x9-5mm.html
All these four pages have different canoncials (the page url). Obviously, that's not good. However, in Google (site:...) url (1) is the only one that's indexed.
Thereby, if I visit the productpage by first going to a category page (fe. www.afwerkingshop.be/wanden.html), I'm redirected to url (1), but the canonical url is www.afwerkingshop.be/last_visited_category_name/product. So, the canonical seems dynamic depending on the last visited category. And still, only url (1) is indexed.
Additionally, all aforementioned pages contain .
Is anyone familiar with this issue? And more important, will it cause problems in future?
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Chendon
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Hi Amit,
Thanks for your answer. That's what I thought and I implemented this.
Hope this will do.
Cheers, Chendon
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Hi Chendon,
I would suggest you should use the same canonical URL that is present in the URL no. 1 in all the other 3 web pages.
Because as per my understanding, this page is already indexed with "https" and other similar pages are indexed starting with "www" in Google SERPs.
Coming to tag, I think, its fine to go with it. Since other 3 similar pages are already indexed. And once you replace the canonical URL in similar pages then it'll be good to go.
I hope it'll help.
Best Regards,
Amit
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