As far as I know, there is no way to edit rel canonical in Wix sites. The only option I see is to try to contact their support and ask to solve your problem. But personally I haven't tried to ask anything regarding the code change.

Hi Karl, Stefano & Asif,

we're currently testing wix cms. Wix is great creativity tool, but it has some serious seo problems. It's correct that their websites are flash based, but we can confirm that their content are crawlable by google. There are other serious things - users cannot add any custom meta tags in the code level (head, body), also you will not be able to change anything in website hosting level. You can add any meta title and description, but this will be applied to the whole website (not page level). So you won't have different meta titles and descriptions (please note that google may change your titles and/or descriptions in their SERPS, so sometimes it doesn't matter). It must be said that currently wix have improved in handling these issues - they included 'rel canonical' and different meta titles - now they are constructed as follow - Website title + Page name, so it may be something like "My Website | My page". Meta descriptions are still the issue. Currently we are testing this cms, so we cannot recommend to use it or not, as you may know, flash, ajax is not recommended by most seo.

Some tips: - always use so called "masterpages" - these only are real web pages

- don't read their help on seo - it's very old and there are some major mistakes (like making no difference between image "alt" and "title", recommendations to use keywords tag and so on).

" Our Google Analytics is still set up for the former domain name and shows data just fine"

How do You get your new domain traffic data?

Thank You very much! The code You provided worked very well and solved our problem.

Thanks Alan Mosley and Sha Menz! We will try to implement given advices tonight (at low traffic hours) and check back soon with results. Sha, thats ok with line breaks, we will figure it out. Thanks for your support once again!

Hello everybody!

I have quite simple question about URL rewriting from subcategory to category, yet I can't find any solution to this problem (due to lack of my deeper apache programming knowledge).

Here is my problem/question:

we have two website url structures that causes dublicate problems:

1. www.website.lt/language/category/

2. www.website.lt/language/category/1/

1 and 2 pages are absolutely same (both also returns 200 OK). What we need is 301 redirect from 2 to 1 without any other deeper categories redirects (like www.website.com/language/category/1/169/ redirecting to .../category/1/ or .../category/).

Here goes .htaccess URL rewrite rules:

RewriteRule ^([^/]{1,3})/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /index.php?lang=$1&idr=$2&par1=$3&par2=$4&par3=$5&par4=$6&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]{1,3})/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /index.php?lang=$1&idr=$2&par1=$3&par2=$4&par3=$5&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]{1,3})/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /index.php?lang=$1&idr=$2&par1=$3&par2=$4&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]{1,3})/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$ /index.php?lang=$1&idr=$2&par1=$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]{1,3})/([^/]+)/$ /index.php?lang=$1&idr=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]{1,3})/$ /index.php?lang=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

There are other redirects that handles non-www to www and related issues:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/lt/$ http://www.domain.lt/

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.lt

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.lt/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)/$RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.domain.lt/$1/ [R=301,L]

At this moment we cannot solve this problem with rel canonical (due to our CMS limits).

Thanks for your help guys!

If You need any other details on our coding, just let me know.

Hi Karl, Stefano & Asif,

we're currently testing wix cms. Wix is great creativity tool, but it has some serious seo problems. It's correct that their websites are flash based, but we can confirm that their content are crawlable by google. There are other serious things - users cannot add any custom meta tags in the code level (head, body), also you will not be able to change anything in website hosting level. You can add any meta title and description, but this will be applied to the whole website (not page level). So you won't have different meta titles and descriptions (please note that google may change your titles and/or descriptions in their SERPS, so sometimes it doesn't matter). It must be said that currently wix have improved in handling these issues - they included 'rel canonical' and different meta titles - now they are constructed as follow - Website title + Page name, so it may be something like "My Website | My page". Meta descriptions are still the issue. Currently we are testing this cms, so we cannot recommend to use it or not, as you may know, flash, ajax is not recommended by most seo.

Some tips: - always use so called "masterpages" - these only are real web pages

- don't read their help on seo - it's very old and there are some major mistakes (like making no difference between image "alt" and "title", recommendations to use keywords tag and so on).