Canonical URL issue

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   EI,

Found an issue that I do not see addressed in the WIKI.

The issue revolves around a product that is listed in multiple categories.  The canonical URL doesn't account for this and thus generates a different canonical URL for each category the product is listed in.

Thus creating confusion for the Google:
1. the page content is the same
2. the product lives in multiple locations each with a different canonical URL

The rel canonical tag is to be used to tell Google the preferred URL location of the page.  

The solution is to make each product have 1 "master" URL location where it lives. But allow the product to be listed in multiple categories. That way no matter how many different categories the product is listed in, it only has 1 URL and 1 canonical URL.

The current structure of PC doesn't have this functionality.

Can this be addressed?

Thanks,

Earl

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EarlJ Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02-May-2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote EarlJ Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Canonical URL issue Posted: 14-October-2010 at 7:16pm
	EI, Found an issue that I do not see addressed in the WIKI. The issue revolves around a product that is listed in multiple categories. The canonical URL doesn't account for this and thus generates a different canonical URL for each category the product is listed in. Thus creating confusion for the Google: 1. the page content is the same 2. the product lives in multiple locations each with a different canonical URL The rel canonical tag is to be used to tell Google the preferred URL location of the page. The solution is to make each product have 1 "master" URL location where it lives. But allow the product to be listed in multiple categories. That way no matter how many different categories the product is listed in, it only has 1 URL and 1 canonical URL. The current structure of PC doesn't have this functionality. Can this be addressed? Thanks, Earl

ProductCart Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group ProductCart Team Joined: 01-October-2003 Status: Offline Points: 135	Post Options Post Reply Quote ProductCart Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14-October-2010 at 7:25pm
	Hi Earl, An update was posted the other day on the "Just In" section of our Support page, that I believe addresses your question: http://www.productcart.com/technical-support.asp#updates ... but let us know if that is not the case.
	The ProductCart Team Home of ProductCart shopping cart software

EarlJ Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02-May-2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote EarlJ Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15-October-2010 at 8:45pm
	EI, Nice, this looks like it should work.

EarlJ Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02-May-2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote EarlJ Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20-October-2010 at 6:49pm
	EI, One tweak. Can you adjust the xml sitemap product URLs to use the same format as the canonical url? Thanks, Earl