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mishania · ‎11-26-2020

Hello, Need your help, please

can someone explain to me please how can I add a canonical tag to my product page?

Elle · ‎11-26-2020

That's correct!

You do not need to worry about this as the way our themes are built ensure that duplicate content will not be indexed by Google.

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Elle · ‎11-26-2020

Hi, @mishania

Are you using a theme from our theme store? If so, you do not need to worry about adding canonical tags!

We've built-in Google-friendly canonical URLs, so your SEO is not impacted by "duplicated" content.

On the internal, it's common for the same content to be accessed through multiple URLs. For example, there are two ways to access the mug in this storefront:

Canonical URLs are the authoritative or primary URL that's served to Google. Usually, they're the shortest URL. In the above example, the second URL is the one that would be picked up by Google.

We have a canonical URL for all URLs at Shopify (products, collections, pages, and blogs), so there is no risk of duplicate content.

I hope this helps!

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mishania · ‎11-26-2020

So i dont need to worry that my product pages are almost the same?

Elle · ‎11-26-2020

Hi, @mishania

That's correct!

You do not need to worry about this as the way our themes are built ensure that duplicate content will not be indexed by Google.

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amragl · ‎01-19-2021

Hi Elle,

I have similar issues where the categories+filters seem to be causing duplicates and I am using a Shopify theme.

https://www.fiechi.com/collections/baby-gifts/red

https://www.fiechi.com/collections/baby-gifts/blue

This is being highlighted by a SEO tool I am using.

Should I not worry then? Or should I use the canonical tags? if so, how do I do it?

Thank you.

larisanozhovnik · ‎04-19-2023

I am trying to fix this issue which occurs to Dawn and Sense themes as well but the solutions I found on the web did not resolve this issue. I have asked Chat GPT to suggest the code which follows. I am testing it now.

{% if template == 'product' %}
{% assign first_variant = product.variants.first %}
{% assign canonical_url = product.url %}
{% if first_variant %}
{% assign canonical_url = product.url | append: '?variant=' | append: first_variant.id %}
{% endif %}
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ canonical_url }}">
{% endif %}

The code should be added to the head section of the HTML (theme.liquid). Specifically, it should be added between the <head> and </head> tags. Just find this line of code: <link rel="canonical" href="{{ canonical_url }}"> and replace it with the piece of code above.

MomMeAndMore · ‎04-24-2023

Did this work and are you using Dawn theme?

larisanozhovnik · ‎04-25-2023

Hi!
Thank you for your question.
I am in the process of testing this code on my website based on the Sense
theme.
And I have updated it a little bit.
The updated one looks like below:

{% if template == 'product' %}
{% assign first_variant = product.selected_or_first_available_variant %}
{% assign canonical_url = product.url %}
{% if first_variant %}
{% assign canonical_url = canonical_url | append: '?variant=' | append:
first_variant.id %}
{% endif %}

{% endif %}

With regard to the use of the Dawn theme, I help one of my partners with
SEO and he uses two websites based on this theme. He is also testing this
code on his websites.

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