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How to set cannonical link rel to CS CART
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I whant to specify a link rel cannonical for each category page, how to do that without changing the code (just from admin section), because filters and sorting search are making the site dublicate content with their parameters;
If there is a way please specify the method,
i whant to avoid hours of working in a script like this.
Thank's.
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thanks Tom
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Take a look at the SEO forums on the CS Cart forums:
http://forum.cs-cart.com/forumdisplay.php?f=45
I bet they know the best way!
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Thank you Thomas,
I think i'll have to find another way. I specified alredy the parameters in google webmastertools but it seems not to wrok in case of ajax filters
Best,
Ion
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Hi there,
I am afraid there is no way of not working with a script, when using rel=canonical. Either you have to develop a script that generates the canonical URL by itself, or you have to insert the meta tag with the right URL manually.
I would strongly discourage NOT spending any time on rel canonical, as it can mess you up site's rankings completely. Read this post by Dr. Pete if you need to convince yourself to spend some our doing the proper development: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/catastrophic-canonicalization
Best,
Thomas
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