ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums : Preserve category breadcrumbs without URL? https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:34:14 +0000 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:42:50 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5544 <![CDATA[ProductCart Shopping Cart Software Forums]]> https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ <![CDATA[Preserve category breadcrumbs without URL? : My canonical URLs are correctly...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/preserve-category-breadcrumbs-without-url_topic5544_post21136.html#21136 Author: Brett
Subject: 5544
Posted: 21-March-2013 at 1:42am

My canonical URLs are correctly excluding the category, but the actual URL is still showing it. This thing is still saying its duplicate content. I want to remove the category from the actual URL while still showing the breadcrumbs. I guess there's no way to do this? I'm not sure what could pass the category info aside from the URL. ]]> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:42:50 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/preserve-category-breadcrumbs-without-url_topic5544_post21136.html#21136 <![CDATA[Preserve category breadcrumbs without URL? : Hi Brett,Not sure what version...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/preserve-category-breadcrumbs-without-url_topic5544_post21135.html#21135 Author: ProductCart
Subject: 5544
Posted: 20-March-2013 at 11:07pm

Hi Brett,

Not sure what version of ProductCart you are running, but I believe what you are describing (Canonical URLs containing the Category ID) is something that has been addressed in the latest version of ProductCart. If you are running something earlier, you can try applying the patch that was posted for v4.1 users on our Support Page awhile back:

http://www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/technical-support.asp#updates

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ProductCart v4.1

Canonical URL - Removal of category ID
Since products can belong to more than one category, the Canonical URL for the product details page should not contain the Category ID. See ReadMe for details. Download fix

Perhaps that will resolve your issue.
]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:07:00 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/preserve-category-breadcrumbs-without-url_topic5544_post21135.html#21135 <![CDATA[Preserve category breadcrumbs without URL? : I&#039;ve been using seomoz lately...]]> https://forum.productcart.com/preserve-category-breadcrumbs-without-url_topic5544_post21134.html#21134 Author: Brett
Subject: 5544
Posted: 20-March-2013 at 7:55pm

I've been using seomoz lately to try to optimize my site. It says I have "duplicate page titles" because I have products which belong to multiple categories. Depending on which category you come from, the URL is slightly different. This is causing it to think I have multiple URLs pointing to the same page, which I guess I do.

I could solve this by removing the category prefix from the URL, but then my category breadcrumbs wouldn't work. Is there a way to move the category info out of the URL and into some other place, like post data or something? That way I could preserve my category breadcrumbs while only having one distinct URL pointing at each product. ]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:55:00 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/preserve-category-breadcrumbs-without-url_topic5544_post21134.html#21134