Item in two different categories and canonical

Hello one more time

Testing on version 2.1.3 r1871.

For example I have an item with the title "Some awesome title". I've placed this item in two categories: primary category is "Category1" and secondary is "Category2". So now I can access this item using two different URLs:

mysite.com/category1/some-awesome-title
mysite.com/category2/some-awesome-title

The problem is when I access " mysite.com/category1/some-awesome-title " the canonical is " mysite.com/category1/some-awesome-title ". When I access " mysite.com/category2/some-awesome-title " the canonical is " mysite.com/category2/some-awesome-title ". So for SEO it is not good, because the same item is accessible from two different URLs and the canonical tag does not point to one of the item.

Is it a bug? Should canonical point to primary category?

Hello

this is done deliberately, since may (or may not) categories may have parameters that effect item display, also the item template maybe behave differently according to current ITEM category,

but we are not sure if this best practice, since the above is rare,

maybe it worth for SEF reason to only use the item's main category in the canonical URL ??

Hello

i think this is the proper thing to do, by default have the same canonical URL, and maybe add a parameter to allow different if user wants this behaviour.

will make it default behavior to be the same canonical URL:

to apply test the change now, in file

components/com_flexicontent/views/item/view.html.php
change line: to
Regards

maybe it worth for SEF reason to only use the item's main category in the canonical URL ??

Yes I think that only main category should be in the canonical URL.

So I applied your solution and it does not work It still works the same way as I mentioned in my first post.

Hello

since you applied the above,

please send me a PM with 2 frontend item links and i will view the HTML source of them

Regards

I've sent Hope will manage this