Change magento url structure for better Google index

Question

I have website with url structure like below

http://example.com/appliances.html/?cat=12 http://example.com/appliances.html/?cat=12&mfg=123

Where cat id and manufacturer id are inner categories and manufacturer of root appliances category.

As when Google index it only index upto url http://example.com/appliances.html And neglect other parameters after that like inner categories and manufacturer name. So we have decided to create url structure like

http://example.com/appliances-dishwasher-whirlpool.html Or http://example.com/whirlpool/appliances/dishwasher. html Like user friendly url which not neglect by Google index and alos focus on inner categories of website.

Also we want to change its canonical urls..

Please suggest some proper way to implement this and is there any good extension available.

Answer 1

You can turn on SEO friendly urls rewrite it your Magento backend

System -> Configuration -> Web -> Search Engines Optimization

also you can look at category seo

System -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Catalog -> Search Engines Optimization

to get more options like canonical optimisation you should invest in SEO extension Mageworx SEO Suite - is good but there are others out there