URL – How to Get Single Product URL Path

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I'm struggling with the single product URL path.

If I go to horloges-mannen.nl/herenhorloges/casio.html (just an example), I can choose between the recommended and just watches brand itself. When I click on one from the recommended list, it gives this URL: horloges-mannen.nl/a158w.

But when I click by the other watches, it gives this URL: horloges-mannen.nl/herenhorloges/casio/a158w

How can I get them all the same way, like the /category/subcategory/product URL (2nd from those 2 links)?

Best Answer

There are huge discussion what is better from a SEO perspective, having the category in the URL or not.

Magento creates a rewrite for each category the product is in. Turning on the Canonical URL as @Dan suggested, avoids penalties for duplicate content.

The only "out of the box" way to have only one URL is, to turn category in URL off. (this is what I heard at the moment the recommended way, but I'm no SEO expert)

To have only one URL per product, you have to remove the category from the URL:

System > Config > Catalog > Catalog 
> Search Engine Optimization > Use Categories Path for Product URLs: no

Answer on the comment

What I want, is the full categoriers path for every product, also if I click on recomended, you're telling me the complete opposite right now ;)

Yes, I did. To fix this I think you should still turn it off and change the indexer which writes the url rewrite, to use one (or the only) category of a product, so when a product url is requested from the url_rewrite, you get the one with the whole categories in it.

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<a href="/?brand=715 ">Earthly Body</a>

This looks like, the design try to trigger a search based on brand and it fails and hence redirecting to home page.

I believe brand is a product attribute that is used in in admin side to set brand of a product. If so, you need to make that attribute first visible in search. For this you need to

go Catalog > Manage Attributes.
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For more details you can check this links LINK 1, LINK 2.

An another work around would be make brand as a "invisible category" and display that category when the brand link get clicked. For this

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Associate each product with corresponding sub category.
Create logic to display brands. (in frontend)

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Hope that makes sense !

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