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#7287 – Canonical URLs

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Wednesday, 01 July 2020 09:31 UTC

[email protected]

Hi,

Can you tell me please if there is a way to import multiple canonical URLs? We have thousands of SEF URLs that we need to add canonical URLs to, which would take forever doing manually.

Many thanks,

Martin.

Wednesday, 01 July 2020 09:38 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi,

You can export the SEF URLs from the SEF URL manager, open that into Excel or similar. You'll get a "Canonical" column in which you can stick your desired canonical URL.
After that import back.

Additional comments:

1 - Do that on a test copy of your site first and test extensively afterwards
2 - Your URL database and therefore the exported file will have most likely several lines with the same SEF URL, each of them corresponding to a duplicate created by Joomla that was grouped by sh404SEF under the same public SEF. You'll want to put your canonical URL either in ALL lines that have the same SEF URL, or if you only want one, put it on the line that has the field "rank" equal to 0, that's the "main" URL.

If you have thousands of SEF, you'll probably want some kind of programmatic way of creating the import file, to be able to match SEF URL and their respective canonicals.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr

Thursday, 16 July 2020 05:34 UTC

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