AN OVER VIEW OF MAGENTO EXTENSION “CANONICAL URL FOR MAGENTO”

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MAGENTO:
Magento is a popular open source platform to built your ecommerce website. It is based on Zend Framework and has a very flexible architecture. Although it is much younger than many of its competitors, Magento has a large community of users.

Developers can easily built plugins or Magento templates, which makes it more and more popular among open source ecommerce solutions. here are loads of great extensions for Magento to help take your internet store to the next level.

MAGENTO EXTENSION:

Mangento extension is defined as the module/plugin/add-on which provides additional features that are not availabe with the default Magento shopping cart. There are numerous extensions available for magento like. Post Affiliate Pro Connector , Fooman Google Analytics Plus, Blog, Advanced Sitemap etc. in this blog our focus is on Canonical URL for Magento

CANONICAL URL FOR MAGENTO

This extension adds the new canonical links to the head of your Magento pages. Basically Canonical URL is a search engine friendly URL that you want the search engines to treat as authoritative.  In other words, a canonical URL is the URL that you want visitors to see.

Quite often canonical URLs were used to describe the homepage.  The typical example used is that most people treat the following URLs as the same:
www.example.com
example.com
www.example.com/index.html
example.com/home.asp

COMPATIBILITY:

The latest version of this module is only compatible with Magento 1.4. For Magento 1.3 and below you have to download the 1.3 release, magento-community/canonical_url-1.3

Magento 1.4 supports the canonical tag by core. To enable the tag for the category and product page go to: System=>Configuration=>Catalog=>Search Engine Optimization and enable: Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Categories and Use Canonical Link Meta Tag For Products.