Bug tracker

SEO rewrite issue
Last modified : 16 Dec 2008 at 19:58

Severity:	Minor
Version:	V1 (1.0.0.8)
Installation type:	Full (with sample data)
Theme:	Default
Project:	Front Office
Reporter:	freeflyer
Report #:	554
Date created:	15 Oct 2008 at 15:04 (UTC+1)
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Hosting service:	VPS
Server OS:	Linux
Web server:	Apache 1.3 or later
PHP version:	PHP 5.0 or later 5.2.5
MySQL:	5.0
Client computer OS:	Windows
Web browser(s) tested:	Firefox 2 --- Firefox 3 --- IE6 --- IE7 --- Safari --- Opera --- Konqueror --- Flock

Details:
The url system can have many different versions of the same page… ie..
http://www.shop.com/5-cast-iron-big-garden-benches
http://www.shop.com5-cast-iron-*anything

go to the same page. Now this is going to cause probs for SEO and good indexing in search engines, especially when renaming pages, iet lets say i change the title of a category from ‘large benches’ to ‘big benches’ . This obviously created two active pages with the same content. This is far from ideal and will cause problems, and prevent people from using prestashop.

Comments :

Maybe I misunderstood but you can keep the same friendly url name when editing the category/product name ?
With the latest beta 3 the system has changed so that when in edit mode the friendly url will not change automatically when changing the category/product name.

By polleke on 04 Dec 2008 at 08:00 (UTC+1)

This is not a bug, there only one method to get product link in PrestaShop (getProductLink()) and URL will be the same on all pages.

Best regards,

By Bruno Lévêque on 16 Dec 2008 at 19:59 (UTC+1)