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      • Import product options
      • How to create options and add them to your products
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    • Introduction to subscriptions and memberships in J2Store
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    • Introduction to Partial payments
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    • Limitation of the booking products type
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    • how to restrict multiple booking for a product person based restriction
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    • Translate J2Store into your language
    • Setting up the store in your Language
    • How to write language override for plugin in multilingual site
    • Language overrides in Joomla with examples
    • Translating Product Options
  • Design
    • Email templates
    • Invoice Template (Pro Feature)
  • Tax configuration
    • Untitled
    • Recommended Tax configuration for US States
    • Recommended Tax configuration for Canadian Stores
    • Recommended Tax Configuration for EU stores
    • Setting up European VAT Rules for selling Physical Goods with J2store
    • A simplified guide for New EU VAT rules 2015 for digital goods and setting them up in J2Store
    • How Tax is Calculated
  • Easy Checkout
    • Easy checkout
    • Trouble shooting issues
  • Shipping methods
    • Free Shipping
      • How to create coupons for free shipping
    • How to set up local store pick up shipping method
    • Australia post shipping plugin
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    • Skrill Payment Plugin
    • Sofort Banking
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    • Squareup Payments
    • Tranzila Payment Plugin
    • USAePay Payment Plugin
    • Voguepay Payment Plugin
    • Worldpay Payment Plugin
    • 2Checkout Plugin
  • Sales
    • Coupons
    • Vouchers
    • Customers
    • Orders
  • Report Sales
  • Modules
    • Product search module
    • J2store Detailed Cart
    • Product categories module
    • Product display module
  • Apps
    • Add to user group
    • Additional fee
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    • Availability-notification
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    • Change Password
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    • Donation
    • Drop-box
    • Email basket Plugin
      • Email basket issues
    • GDPR compliance
    • Google-analytics-ecommerce-tracking
    • Group Products
    • How to send download links through email notifications
    • Image Popup
    • Invoice Prefix Generator
    • Open hours (time based restriction)
    • Pay later/Pay against invoice
    • Points and Rewards
    • Re-Order
    • Shipstation
    • Simple CSV import and export tool
    • Tax Utilities
    • Upload file in checkout
    • Quantity dropdown
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Where can i find my sub-template
    • Products not aligned properly on list view
    • SCA support for payment plugins
    • To show the base price instead of price range in flexivariable products
    • Where do I add the CSS on my site
    • Unable to save the settings in any app
    • Difference between product types
    • Commonly found issues
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Quantity Restriction
  • Troubleshooting Guide
    • Products not visible on storefront
    • Cart not Working
    • Troubleshooting Cart related Issues
    • Moving the description
    • Troubleshooting Checkout Issues
    • Troubleshooting Common Issues
    • How to disable shipping address and payment in checkout
    • Joomla Article Error decoding json data
    • Troubleshooting Email Issues
    • Troubleshooting Paypal related Issues
    • Troubleshooting Product Display Module Issues
    • How to create a custom thank you message
    • Troubleshooting Shipping Issues
    • Troubleshooting Tax Issues
    • Troubleshooting Translate related Issues
  • Common Overrides
    • To add options to downloadable products
    • Moving additional image list to the left of the main image in product view page
    • To display the UPCE/BAN/ISBN on the product page
    • To Display Both the main Image and the additional image in the product view page
  • Video Tutorials
    • Quick Start
    • Catalog Management
    • Subscriptions
    • Booking and Reservation
    • Partial Payments
    • Tax
    • Shipping Methods
    • Discounts
    • Language
    • Apps
    • Email and Invoice Template
    • Checkout and Payment
    • Sales and Orders
    • J2Store CPanel
  • General
    • How to set cron job on your server
    • How to create an FTP account and super user account in Joomla
  • Developer Guide
    • Introduction
    • Queue System
    • App for J2store
    • Sub-templates
    • Creating an integration plugin for your component
    • Payment plugin
    • Templates
  • Canonical URL Plugin
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Canonical URL Plugin

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This plugin solves the duplicate URL problem in search engines by adding appropriate Canonical tags for J2Store products and Articles.

Introduction

Let us suppose that we have three products based on tags T shirts, Summer and Winter collection. So a product say Printed Tee falls under all the above three categories.

This being the case, we create 3 tags, namely T shirts, Winter and Casual collection. All the three tags are being associated with the product Printed Tee. Now, this might create multiple URLs which when indexed by Search engines might create duplications.

So to avoid this, the canonical URL plugin is used. When the canonical plugin is enabled and the layout is Tag view layout, the canonical menu chosen in the menu settings would be given higher priority when compared to the one set on the product level.

Now that we know the purpose of the plugin, let us see how it has to be configured.

Configuration

The plugin doesn’t have much of options to be configured at the plugin level. The plugin could be found under Extensions->Plugins. It would be named as System - J2Store Canonical.

The setting found in the plugin would allow you to choose the canonical tag. There are two options available: **1.)Menu canonical tag 2.)Current URL **

Introduction

When the menu canonical tag option is chosen, the tag that is associated on the Item view canonical tab would be taken into account and the URL for the tag associated with the canonical menu option in the menu settings would be displayed as the URL while indexing happens.

Let us consider that Summer is the tag associated with the canonical menu option in the menu settings, then the indexing would have the URL associated with that tag.

The canonical URLs would NOT be visible for naked human eye. They would only be available on the meta tags of the head section of the page and would be used while indexing happens. The URL found in the frontend meta tag would be as follows:

When there are no tags associated to the canonical menu option in the Item view canonical tab of the tag view menu, and there is a main tag set on the product, and the canonical type option in the plugin setting is set to Menu canonical tag, then the main tag would be associated with the index URL.

The main tag chosen in the product article is as follows:

Now the tag displayed on the meta tag of the frontend would be as follows:

When the canonical type is chosen as Current URL on the plugin parameters, a validation would be done if there are any tags associated on the menu parameters. If so, then the tag associated with the menu parameter would take effect. If not, then a check would be done if there is any main tag associated on the product, and if not, the current URL itself would be used.

Thus the canonical plugin helps in eliminating duplicate URL issues while indexing is done by search engines.

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