I've now uploaded about 1000 products to my development store, complete with creating categories, manufactures, etc. This has all be done over the API, which so far has been working very well.
Today however I came across a problem with the friendly URLs. I suspect this problem may exist "by design" but I would like to confirm.
One thing we have with certain categories is a subcategory "by brand" with the various brands listed under it. Many brands make more than one type of product so their brand can exist in multiple places. Korg for example makes both AV equipment and musical instruments, so we have the following two categories:
However when I enable friendly URLs these both get shortened to "korg" with no category path included in the URL:
https://www.inxonline.com/korg
The friendly URL won't work right now because I turned the feature off while I figure this out.
Is there anything that can (or should) be done about this? If it's really necessary I can remove the "by brand" sections, but if there is an effective workaround that won't penalize SEO then I'd be interested in learning how to make it work.
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I've now uploaded about 1000 products to my development store, complete with creating categories, manufactures, etc. This has all be done over the API, which so far has been working very well.
Today however I came across a problem with the friendly URLs. I suspect this problem may exist "by design" but I would like to confirm.
One thing we have with certain categories is a subcategory "by brand" with the various brands listed under it. Many brands make more than one type of product so their brand can exist in multiple places. Korg for example makes both AV equipment and musical instruments, so we have the following two categories:
https://www.inxonline.com/index.php?id_category=448&controller=category
and
https://www.inxonline.com/index.php?id_category=587&controller=category
However when I enable friendly URLs these both get shortened to "korg" with no category path included in the URL:
https://www.inxonline.com/korg
The friendly URL won't work right now because I turned the feature off while I figure this out.
Is there anything that can (or should) be done about this? If it's really necessary I can remove the "by brand" sections, but if there is an effective workaround that won't penalize SEO then I'd be interested in learning how to make it work.
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