Google pagespeed/ category/ product URL pattern

Hi,

The URL patterns give you the flexibility to make your site URLs look exactly how you wish. For example, you might want to make all your product URLs use just the product alias:

yoursite.com/product-alias

In order to do something like this in Joomla you need to create a menu link for each product. With Route 66 you don't have to do this. This is really helpful when you have a lot of products.
Using Route 66 you can also include other product data to your URLs not just the product alias. For example you can add the manufacturer to the product URL:

yoursite.com/product-manufacturer/product-alias

In general, each of the available tokens that you find in the documentation for use in URL patterns are actually data from your products injected into the URLs.

Keep in mind that you might not want to use the Route 66 URLs feature. If your site URLs are already optimised, changing them might cause harm to your site SEO ranking.

Regarding the Google PageSpeed issue, please create a new private ticket and include administrator credentials so I can have a look.

Regards

Hi,

No, you do not need to copy the URL. What I mean is that the data from your backend like the product alias or the product code (SKU) can be used in the product URLs when you use Route 66. But as I said, it's not necessary to change your product URLs if you are happy with them. I hope this is clear now. If not, let me know so I can provide a detailed example.

Regards

Can you clarify? Which URL is empty? When you edit a product in Hikashop there is a field named "Alias" under the "SEO" panel. What you type here is what is used in the product URL. Route 66 can read this and other data from the product (like the "Product code" field) and generate completely custom URLs.
Canonicals are also created automatically when Route 66 is enabled.

I hope that this is more clear now. If not please let me know.

Regards

In the Route 66 plugin you define the URL patterns. You don't need to type a specific URL.
The patterns are described in detail in the documentation page: https://www.firecoders.com/documentation/route-66#url-patterns
Here are some examples:

catalog/{productYear}/{productMonth}/{productAlias}
{manufacturerAlias}/{productAlias}
{productAlias}
product-{productId}

Whatever you see enclosed in curly brackets is a variable that will get populated by product data. For example using the last pattern from those above, the URL of the product with ID 7 would become:
/product-7

I hope this helps.

Regards

Please let me know how you want your URLs to be like and then just create a new private ticket and I will setup this for you.

Regards

This is something that an SEO expert should tell you. Route 66 is a tool to help you implement custom URLs in Joomla. How they should be is something that requires SEO research.
I just checked your product pages URLs. I think that they are fine. Since this is not a new site I wouldn't recommend to change them.

In case you decide to change the URLs, here is an example of how Route 66 can change the product URL from:

https://www.nordicdental.dk/index.php/da/hatmed-b-autoklaver/product/614-hatmed-b-autoklave-vandkolet-18-ltr

to:

https://www.nordicdental.dk/index.php/da/hatmed-b-autoklave-vandkolet-18-ltr

All you have to do is set the Product URL pattern to :

{productAlias}

I hope that this more clear now.

Regards

If you just need the sitemaps functionality you can leave the URL patterns empty and you are ready. Or you can use Xmap if you prefer.
If you want to change the product URLs using Route 66 please provide FTP access to your server so I can troubleshoot this breadcrumbs issue. Remember to use a private ticket.

Regards

You are totally right. There was an issue in the sitemap generation with the latest versions of Hikashop. It should be working fine now. If not please let me know.

I have also disabled the URL patterns until we fix the breadcrumbs issue. The next update of Route 66 should fix all compatibility issues with Hikashop.

Thank you very much for the great feedback you have provided.

Regards

Hi,

Since it says 0 fails for the specific sitemap you should be fine. Search console needs some time indeed. Give it a couple of days and then check the coverage of the specific sitemap again.
Let me know if you need anything else.

Regards