Canonical From One Product Page To Another

Business Marketing & SEO
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Hello,



Im struggling with SEO of products that by nature are very similar, like Adobe Creative Cloud - there are 4 products with virtually the same description and the only difference is language or promo/nopromo.



Is there a way to add to 3 of those 4 products rel=canonical to the header and point to the 4th one?



Im planning to buy this plugin:

CS-Cart SEO Optimization, Google Rich Snippets, Canonical URL addon



However I need a temporary solution.

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Default cs-cart doesn't have this feature yet.

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isn't there a way to make a hook in meta.post.tpl with an IF to work only on specifict product ids?

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[quote name='Fedor' timestamp='1430206496' post='212795']

isn't there a way to make a hook in meta.post.tpl with an IF to work only on specifict product ids?

[/quote]



Please use the following code:



{$product_ids = [1, 2, 3]}
{if $product.product_id|in_array:$product_ids}
YOUR CODE HERE
{/if}

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So I've put in hooks/index/meta.post.tpl




[quote]

{$product_ids = [18571, 18573, 18570, 18572]}

{if $product.product_id|in_array:$product_ids}


{/if}[/quote]

And it does not appear in the products with those IDs. It should also work for friendly URLs yes? Or only for /index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=18572?

Maybe the IF statement is wrong? Removing the IF and placing just the line does work (globally for all pages)
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I did


```php

{if $product.product_id eq “18571”}


{/if} ```

And it works. Is that OK programming-wise?
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[quote name='Fedor' timestamp='1430318252' post='212956']

I did


```php

{if $product.product_id eq “18571”}


{/if} ```

And it works. Is that OK programming-wise?
[/quote]

Both ways should works with the SEO and default URLs. Possibly our code did not work due to the cache
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Is it possible to do the same for only specific categories for product filters?

Like to add an if



{if CATEGORY_ID eq “000” && FEATURES_HASH eq “5579”}


{/if}
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[quote name='Fedor' timestamp='1431354558' post='213970']

Is it possible to do the same for only specific categories for product filters?

Like to add an if



{if CATEGORY_ID eq “000” && FEATURES_HASH eq “5579”}


{/if}
[/quote]

You can use:

```php
{if $smarty.request.category_id == "000" && $smarty.request.features_hash == "V5579"}

{/if}
```
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Thank you very much eCom, it works nice. And if I wanted to do that on ANY features_hash number?



[color=#000000]$smarty[/color][color=#666600].[/color][color=#000000]request[/color][color=#666600].[/color][color=#000000]features_hash [/color][color=#666600]=![/color][color=#000000] [/color][color=#008800]null [/color]



Or something like that?

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it not equals

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[quote name='Fedor' timestamp='1431425022' post='214076']

Thank you very much eCom, it works nice. And if I wanted to do that on ANY features_hash number?



[color=#000000]$smarty[/color][color=#666600].[/color][color=#000000]request[/color][color=#666600].[/color][color=#000000]features_hash [/color][color=#666600]=![/color][color=#000000] [/color][color=#008800]null [/color]



Or something like that?

[/quote]



Please use this code


```php

{if $smarty.request.category_id == “000” && $smarty.request.features_hash}


{/if}
```
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Thank you Aleksey, it works.

!= null worked too, suprisingly, but I changed it for you code.

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[quote name='Fedor' timestamp='1431428236' post='214082']

Thank you Aleksey, it works.

!= null worked too, suprisingly, but I changed it for you code.

[/quote]



I am glad to hear that. You are welcome!