Canonical URL tag for PrestaShop (module)

What is Canonical URL?

Canonical URL's provide imroved indexing pages and page content your website. They rapidly reduced pages with duplicated content but with various URL's. For example it's a pages which are using adding a various parameters into URL address in order to change way displaying their content.

An good example is a category page with sorting options based on availability, product's name, price etc. You can find various shape of URL:

• http://..../en/2-ipod
• http://..../en/2-ipod?orderby=price&orderway=desc
• http://..../en/2-ipod?orderby=price&orderway=asc
• http://..../en/2-ipod?orderby=name&orderway=desc
• http://..../en/2-ipod?orderby=quantity&orderway=desc

The fact is that it is the same category page:

• http://..../en/2-ipod

with various ways to display.

The goal is that searching crawlers indexed category page only one and not all version of the page. Meta-tag with canonical exactly determined which one page version will be indexed and which other will be ignored.

Module in action:

Module features

• compatibility: PrestaShop 1.7.x, 1.6.x, 1.5.x, 1.4.x
  
• quick module installation
• module checking content duplicity (and add canonical URL) in following PrestaShop parts:
  • homepage
  • product categories
  • product pages
  • summary manufacturers and suppliers pages
  • detail manufacturers and suppliers pages
  • new products
  • best sales products
  • price drop products
  • category CMS pages
  • CMS pages
• languages available: Slovak, Czech, English
• help and technical support from the module author

Module installation

1. Upload folder "cmcanonical" into /modules/ folder via FTP or use module upload tool in Back Office » Modules to upload module package.
2. Install module in: Administration » Modules
3. If any problem occurred, contact author of the module.

PRESTASHOP CANONICAL URL TAG MODULE - CHANGELOG

version 2.0.0 (01/05/2017)
    + initial release for PrestaShop 1.7.x (testing environment: PrestaShop 1.7.0.3)

version 1.0.2 (01/05/2017)
    + added bootstrap module back-office
    + added video explainen how Canonical URL rags works
    x updated module documentation
    x updated "Terms and conditions of use" document
    x minor code changes

version 1.0.1 (01/19/2016)
    x compatibility: PrestaShop 1.6.x
    x minor changes

version 1.0.0 (07/31/2013)
    x initial release - compatibility: PrestaShop 1.5.x

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    + added a new feature
    x fixed issue, updated feature
    - removed feature