Add Canonical URL Link to Joomla Home Page

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1. Jordan D. says

   December 21, 2012 at 7:44 am

   @Pat Fortino “Currently, there are no extensions for Joomla that add a canonical link to your pages”

   This isn’t true. I’ve been using a canonicalization app on all of my Joomla 2.5 sites for at least the last year. Further, a quick Google search returns two different extensions, at least.

   This one has 4.94/5.0
   http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/url-canonicalization-/5355

   Here’s another one for multi-language sites:
   http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/url-canonicalization-/19802

   • Pat Fortino says

     December 21, 2012 at 7:49 am

     I’m not talking about domain name canonization. I’m talking about the canonical url that needs to be written on each unique page so you can avoid duplicate content. There are no joomla extensions that do this.

     • Jordan D. says

       December 21, 2012 at 4:52 pm

       I don’t know man… There’s a category of extension called “URL Canonicalization.”

       index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=199:dispatch-monitor-and-report&catid=64:field-service-management&Itemid=498

       I spot checked one of the sites I run, http://www.morphisinc.com, by clicking on random links in the top menu and then viewing the page source. All of them had rel=canonical with the appropriate URL.

       What I wasn’t able to find was a non-canonical version of a page that didn’t redirect to a canonical version, but I thought about it and I didn’t see how the extension would accomplish this given the information it was given. I suspect that it just puts the tag on every page which kind of janky.

       I like your fix though. Do you know of any reason why one wouldn’t be able to make an extension based on this fix?

       • Pat Fortino says

         December 24, 2012 at 6:57 am

         I think you can use a sef extension like sh404sef to write cannonical urls for each page, but there are no extensions that do it automatically. Having to write each one manually would be a major pain if you have 100s of pages.

2. Andy says

   January 5, 2013 at 12:01 pm

   Ich habe unter http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14147627/get-active-menu-url/14171745? eine Frage nach einer ein wenig erweiterten Version eröffnet. Eventuell hat hier jemand eine Idee?

3. calvin says

   January 18, 2013 at 4:11 am

   I dont want this on just my home page – your solution only works for that.

   If a age is internal say site.com/page1

   then I would like the code to be
   canonurl=site.com/section1/page1

   even if the page is found by inserting ignored junk (like crawling seems able to do)

   site.com/I-am-ignored-junk/section1/page1

   I still want the same canon url to be displayed as

   !!!!!!! canonurl=site.com/section1/page1 !!!!!!!

   , but what is the joomla framework php that will give me the right URL !