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I'm struggling with the single product URL path.

If I go to horloges-mannen.nl/herenhorloges/casio.html (just an example), I can choose between the recommended and just watches brand itself. When I click on one from the recommended list, it gives this URL: horloges-mannen.nl/a158w.

But when I click by the other watches, it gives this URL: horloges-mannen.nl/herenhorloges/casio/a158w

How can I get them all the same way, like the /category/subcategory/product URL (2nd from those 2 links)?

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  • Why do you want that? If it's for SEO, there's a better solution which is to enable the "Canonical URL" in Magento's configuration.
    – Dan
    Commented Jun 9, 2015 at 13:48
  • It's not for SEO, it's just to let it look nicer.
    – MiniPwnr
    Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 8:08

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There are huge discussion what is better from a SEO perspective, having the category in the URL or not.

Magento creates a rewrite for each category the product is in. Turning on the Canonical URL as @Dan suggested, avoids penalties for duplicate content.

The only "out of the box" way to have only one URL is, to turn category in URL off. (this is what I heard at the moment the recommended way, but I'm no SEO expert)

To have only one URL per product, you have to remove the category from the URL:

System > Config > Catalog > Catalog 
> Search Engine Optimization > Use Categories Path for Product URLs: no

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What I want, is the full categoriers path for every product, also if I click on recomended, you're telling me the complete opposite right now ;)

Yes, I did. To fix this I think you should still turn it off and change the indexer which writes the url rewrite, to use one (or the only) category of a product, so when a product url is requested from the url_rewrite, you get the one with the whole categories in it.

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  • I don't want it for SEO especially, the owner of the site just want it to look nicer when you choose a product, so you don't get 2 different links.
    – MiniPwnr
    Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 8:10
  • just turn it of ;) :D Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 8:31
  • What do you mean by turn it off?
    – MiniPwnr
    Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 11:09
  • updated the answer. Commented Jun 11, 2015 at 11:57
  • What I want, is the full categoriers path for every product, also if I click on recomended, you're telling me the complete opposite right now ;)
    – MiniPwnr
    Commented Jun 12, 2015 at 7:22

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