How to redirect the URL?

Question

For SEO, I need to change few URLs like below:

1. My magento site has the same content on these URL's:

   URL 1: www.example.com/some-product-page/

   URL 2: www.example.com/category/subcategory/some-product-page/

I need that URL 1 moves to URL 2.

2. URL: www.example.com/category/

   URL: www.example.com/category/?p=1 has the same content, how to fix it?

Answer 1

You should look at implementing Canonical URL's.

This will prevent duplicate content issues with Google.

Yoast offer an extension thats free and can get this done for you.

https://yoast.com/tools/magento/magento-canonical/

Answer 2

You can extend class Mage_Page_Block_Html_Pager with your own module in catalog.xml and catalogsearch.xml layouts.

Look for nodes :

<block type="page/html_pager" name="product_list_toolbar_pager"/>

=> Replace it by

<block type="mypage/html_pager" name="product_list_toolbar_pager"/>.

The only method you'll have to change is getPageUrl like this :

public function getPageUrl($page)
{
    if ($page > 1)
        return $this->getPagerUrl(array($this->getPageVarName()=>$page));
    return $this->getPagerUrl();
}

Tell me if it works or if you need more detail :)