Canonical URL

M2

Canonical URLs extension helps you to avoid the duplicate content issues in Magento 2 stores. Multiple URLs of a page make it difficult for the search engines to identify, index, and rank the right URL. Configure canonical tags for pagination, category filters, layered navigation pages, multi stores and store views to avoid duplicate content issues. Add proper canonical tags to increase your website rankings and traffic from search engines. 

You can also add canonical tags for cross domain and rel="next"/rel="prev" tags for category pages. Configure canonical tags with or without trailing slash. You can also ignore specific pages for adding canonical tags.

Key Features

• Enable Canonical meta tags to products, categories, CMS pages URL
• Apply Canonicals for multi-store, store view or another website
• Add canonical tags on pagination, filters, layered navigation pages
• Exclude Certain Pages from adding Canonical meta tags
• Add canonicals to pagination pages and layered navigation
• Specify rel="next" and rel="prev" to slider or catalog
• Add a trailing slash to web pages

Demo Links

• Backend
• Frontend

Add Canonical Tags for Pagination, Filters

The category pagination and filters can cause duplicate content issues such as,

Filters: https://www.domainname.com/shirts.html?dir=asc&order=name

Pagination: https://www.domainname.com/shirts.html?p=2

This extension for Magento 2 will add canonical tags to help fix these duplicate URL issues caused by pagination and filters

Add Canonical Tags for Layered Navigation Pages

The pagination extensions can cause duplicate content issues by creating multiple pages by filters,

Layered navigation: domainname.com/tshirts.html?price=-1000

This extension can help you fix the duplicate issues caused by layered navigation by placing proper canonical tags.

Add Canonical Meta Tags to Store Pages

With Magento Canonical URLs extension, you can apply the addition of canonical tags to multiple pages at once. It can be applied to product pages, categories, and CMS pages in order to eliminate the issue of duplicate content from your online store.

Setup Canonical tags for custom or Store URL

This extension gives you the freedom to set up canonical meta tags for a custom URL or to a specific Store URL. Canonicals can be applied to a default store URL, a default Store View, or custom select a Store View.

Remove Specific Pages from Canonical tags Application

You can declare specific pages to be excluded from the application of canonical Meta tags. The installation of this extension adds canonical URLs to all the pages of your online store, but you can exclude some of them by adding them to the exceptions block.

Canonicalize Pagination and Layered Navigation Pages

Set up canonical tags for the pagination pages to elaborate the relation of products between different pages. You can also enable canonical Meta tags for the layered navigation pages to define similar product attributes and categories to the search engines.

Set up rel="next" and rel="prev" Tags

Magento Canonical URLs extension steps further in adding rel="next" and rel="prev" attributes to draw a relation between catalog and category, and let the search engine robots understand it.

Put a Trailing Slash to URLs

You can put a trailing slash to the URL in addition to the canonical Meta tags. This has more to do with improving the readability of the URLs than enhancing SEO rankings.

Fix Fix Index.php Issues

During the development some extensions change your URLs and add index.php. This can create a big duplicate content problem which as be fixed by this Magento 2 Canonical URL extension.

Example: https://www.pitstoparabia.com/index.php/bridgestone/