Custom canonical urls

[hedgehog]

I have a lot of mostly identical products, e.g "marbles 20pcs" and "marbles 50pcs". So, i want to make a "marbles 20pcs" a canonical page, and place a relevant canonical tag on the "marbles 50pcs" product page. Is there any way to do it? There is a paid plugin for PS but no options for TB.

I know that the best solution would be to merge the two products into one with options but still would be great to have an opportunity to edit canonical. Right now they just point to the product page itself, with no way to edit it.

[musicmaster]

I am puzzled what you want. What do you mean with "canonical page"?

[hedgehog]

2 hours ago, musicmaster said:

I am puzzled what you want. What do you mean with "canonical page"?

Its the page which you consider the main one, and want it to be shown in google instead of the other, duplicated page. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

[lesley]

You would need to override the function we are using for canonical urls and make a module to interface with it, doing what you are looking for. 

[hedgehog]

2 hours ago, lesley said:

You would need to override the function we are using for canonical urls and make a module to interface with it, doing what you are looking for. 

is there any plans adding it in the next versions, by chance?

[colorful-ant]

In my view, the best solution would be to rename the products.

i think eg
marbles 50pcs - variant 1
marbles 50pcs - variant 2
etc

if necessary in the htaccess add / change

example

# Redirect
Redirect 301 category/marbles-50pcs https://myshop/category/marbles-50pcs-variant_1

or so

Edited February 12, 2019 by colorful-ant

[colorful-ant]

What happens if you look at the duplicate urls tool in the back office?
Does it show problem with the urls?

If yes, your problem seems to be here.

[hedgehog]

12 hours ago, colorful-ant said:

What happens if you look at the duplicate urls tool in the back office?
Does it show problem with the urls?

If yes, your problem seems to be here.

The urls are not duplicate, the names too. But the descriptions are identical. So it will be a duplicated content for google. And if someone links to the 2nd product, the link juice will not pass to the 1st product as I'd want (if no canonical tags are set)