3 Great plugins for canonical links
15 Dec
You may have had a chance to read my last posting about “Why canonical links are the greatest thing to happen to SEO lately!” where I talk about what canonical links are exactly, what they look like in your website’s source code, common terms used when talking about canonical links and what problem canonical links solve for the search engine optimization of your website.
In this posting I am going to provide some solutions that you can implement on your website to take advantage of canonical links for your website’s SEO efforts. I’ve only decided to focus on Magento Commerce (an ecommerce platform) and WordPress (my CMS platform of choice) and I will be talking about 3 plug-ins in particular that when implemented will integrate the canonical linking structure to your website and web pages within your site.
The “All in one SEO Pack” for WordPress by Michael Torbert
Now I’ve used the All in One SEO Pack for a while now myself and the thing I really love about it is how easy it is to use. You don’t need to be an SEO expert to understand what’s going on and all you need to do is click a checkbox and the canonical link structure will be added to your website. Just have a look and see how easy it is to turn on the canonical link setting with the “All in one SEO Pack” WordPress plug-in by clicking here!
The “Canonical URLs for Magneto” Extension by Joost De Valk and Joachim Houtman
For those of you using Magento to run your ecommerce operations there is a simple extension that you can add to your Magento commerce installation. When installed it adds the canonical link structure to your website’s header section allowing search engines to tell the unique links for the highly similar ones. Click here to check out this Magento Extension
The “Canonical URLs for WordPress” Plug-in by Joost De Valk
It’s worth a mention as Joost De Valk of Yoast.com wrote this plug-in for WordPress users to take advantage of the canonical linking structure on WordPress sites specifically. The plug-in itself is pretty straight forward and you can grab it here!
If you use any platform software like WordPress, Magento Commerce or one of the countless others check first to make sure the core platform architecture doesn’t already support canonical links and if it currently doesn’t i’d suggest you check out their plug-ins, extensions and add-ons to see if there is a solution to help you with this. Happy “canonical-ing”!
Luc Arnold
I would like to recommend the Platinum SEO Pack, it has more useful options than the all in one seo pack. There are more nofollow selections, additional post, page and home headers, you can nofollow all of the outgoing links on just the front page, you can add the noydir meta tag, the noodp meta tag, you can use the option for noindex on sub pages and my favorite option of all is all of the options that it gives you on each individual post and page of your wordpress blog.
Those are just a few of the things that I can think of off the top of my head. The fact of the matter is that I have used both and have found that I am in greater control of my websites on-page seo than when I was using the All in One SEO Pack.
@ Jonathon… Thanks for posting that solution. Most people that are using WordPress could be interested in this depending on the level of customization that they require with respect to SEO on their website.
Really,
its wonderful.The 3 point which u have noted in article is very meaningful.After read it i gain a lot of knowledge about WordPress and also about SEO.
So Thanks for sharing………wants it continue……
Thanks Deepak,
Glad you enjoyed reading a little more about Canonical Links!
Luc