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Currently my site is using the sh404SEF plugin (Joomla 3.2) to add canonical urls to every page. This is working, however on the index page its outputting:

www.example.com/?view=home

instead of

www.example.com

Is there a way to update these canonical urls using the Joomla admin / sh404SEF plugin?

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  • If the site is public can you share the url so we can look at it?
    – tristanbailey
    Commented May 12, 2014 at 20:43

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We use sh404SEF extensively at work for large clients, so I deal with this a lot. There are times where sh404 does weird things and other times it works fine.

You should be able to purge your URL database (from within the sh404 admin) and then go back to the frontend of the site and navigate it to regenerate the site URL's. This usually fixes a lot of the oddities of sh404SEF.

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  • I don't think I have anything to purge in my url database, when I select URL manager and click purge, it says "No records found". I have no url's setup, the canonical tag is automatically being included. I've tried setting one up but it doesn't appear to be matching my index url, since the canonical url I've provided isn't applied.
    – ContextSwitch
    Commented Apr 23, 2014 at 16:37
  • I'm sorry - I misunderstood your question. You were referring to the canonical url as output in a meta tag, correct?
    – Don Gilbert
    Commented Apr 23, 2014 at 16:41
  • The canonical url is in a link tag, with a href=www.site.com/?view=home and rel="canonical", I'm trying to make that href=www.site.com. I was wondering if there was a way to do this through sh404SEF in the joomla admin
    – ContextSwitch
    Commented Apr 23, 2014 at 16:44
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I also had strange canonical tags at one point which were fixed by installing the Canonical Plugin by StyleWare.

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Core Joomla SEF is not currently sufficient if you want to maximize your SEO. SEO is so much more than SEF URLs. sh404SEF, and others like it are complex but complete solutions. If your serious about SEO, you need a serious tool.

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    we're using sh404SEF, that's what I was asking about actually, if there was a way to modify canonical urls inside sh404SEF
    – ContextSwitch
    Commented Apr 22, 2014 at 19:40
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    Please provide more details and references about you statement. Currently this is only a sentence in thrown in the air... To on topic: Every sef component slows down your site and makes it very difficult to update. Before the update you need to check the support of the new version by the component, is there any modifications to the links, you need to make beta tests and etc. The process to update with SEF component is longer and harder than using the standard joomla SEF functionality.
    – me7hos
    Commented Apr 22, 2014 at 19:56
  • SEF extensions do not slow down your site unless you have 100,000+ URLs on a $2/mo server. Like any 3rd-party extension however, of course you need to check for compatibility. There is nothing unique about SEF extensions in this regard.
    – user86
    Commented Apr 30, 2014 at 1:44
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    -1 as the question clearly states they use sh404SEF
    – Adam B
    Commented May 3, 2014 at 18:14
  • -1 because it's a load of nonsense and goes nowhere toward answering the question.
    – BodgeIT
    Commented May 12, 2014 at 6:20

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