Joomla Canonical URL Plugins

Steven Johnson
by | Posted: July 13, 2018 | Updated: July 13, 2018

Overview

 

 

Canonical URL

Joomla Extension Directory https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/canonical-url/

Developer: CMS Plugin Dev

Product Page: https://www.cmsplugin.com/products/components/4-canonical-url

Price $49/3 months to $129/12months

 

Last Updated: October 3, 2017 (as of July 2018)

Support URL: https://www.cmsplugin.com/support

 

This one seems to give you the most control



All in One Canonical Links

Joomla Extension Directory https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/canonical-links-all-in-one/

Developer Manage CMS

Product Page: https://www.managecms.com/extensions/canonical-links

Price: Looks to be 34 Euro and a subscription, but it could be just a one time purchase, since not mention of the subscription length is made.

 

Last Updated:  April 25, 2018 (as of July 2018)

Support URL

 

Review

This one seems to do system wide canonical updates, not sure if you can manually specify specific URLs





Styleware Plugin

Joomla Extension Directory https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/canonical/

Developer: Styleware

Product Page: https://styleware.eu/store/item/26-styleware-content-canonical-plugin

Price: Free

 

Last Updated: ???

Support URL ???

 

Review

I think this one just cleans up the Canonical Issues in Joomla

 

Aimy Canonical




Joomla Extension Directory https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/aimy-canonical/

Developer: Aimy Extenions

Product Page: https://www.aimy-extensions.com/joomla/canonical.html

Price: Free & Paid Version

 

Last Updated: ???

Support URL ???

 

Review

Free and Pro Versions

 

Not sure if you can manually Specify specific URLs for canonical




Use Joomla Core

 

There seems to be a way you can use the Joomla Core to accomplish what we need to do.  This could be more work and maintenance than it is worth. Just wanted to add it to the list as an option

 

https://www.danielmorell.com/blog/how-to-create-joomla-canonical-tags

https://www.robertwent.com/blog/using-joomla-custom-fields-add-canonical-urls/



Posts About Canonical URLs

https://joomlaseo.com/blog/joomla-3-and-canonical-url

https://www.danielmorell.com/blog/how-to-create-joomla-canonical-tags

https://www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/canonical/

 

Yoast SEO on Canonical URLs  https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/

Sure it is wordpress but the information is very helpful

 

Video from Matt Cutts: http://extensions.cmsplugin.com/extensions/j3demo/canonical-url

Steven Johnson

Steven is a Joomla web developer and worked with Joomla since the Mambo days. He has built websites for startup businesses all the way to for Fortune 500 companies. A graduate of Georgia Tech in Chemical Engineering, he now happily spends his time building websites and reviewing all types of technology.