Compliance

It ensures full compliance with RFC 6596 and RFC 8288 by automatically adding the correct canonical tags (rel="canonical") and pagination attributes (rel="next" and rel="prev"), both in the HTML head and HTTP headers.

Supports all Joomla components and major extensions like SP Page Builder, Convert Forms, and JEvents. See “Officially Supports” below for details.

Main Features

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Advanced URL Management

• Automatic & Custom Canonical URLs: Dynamic generation with the flexibility of manual overrides.
• Multi-Domain Support: Full control over cross-domain rel="canonical", including settings for primary and localized canonical domains.
• Trailing-Slash Control: Consistent URL formatting to prevent duplicate content issues.
• Query String Optimization: Automatic removal of unnecessary query strings from SEF URLs for cleaner indexing.
• SEF Flexibility: Guaranteed performance whether Joomla SEF is ON or OFF.

SEO & Security

• Negative SEO Mitigation: Built-in spam query filter and dedicated Allow/Exclude lists to protect Smart Search results pages.
• Canonical Redirects: Optional redirection to the canonical URL to consolidate link equity.
• Tag Cleanup: Option to strip existing or conflicting canonical tags generated by other extensions.

Smart Search & Content Handling

• Smart Search Optimization: Dedicated management for Smart Search results, including terms exclusion and allowlists to prevent negative-SEO attacks.
• Multi-page Article Control: Two specialized options to manage canonical tags for split or paginated articles.
• Extended Compatibility: Experimental feature to generate canonical URLs for (formerly) unsupported third-party components.

Multilingual & Specialized Support

• Global Reach: Full support for multilingual and multiregional sites, including localized canonical domains in alternate-language meta tags.
• Improved Performance: Includes page-relationship attributes used by browsers to speed up content prefetching.
• HTTP Header Integration: Option to inject canonical URLs and relationship data directly into the HTTP header for faster bot discovery.

Full SEF Integration

Fully compatible with the native Joomla! SEF system, canonical URLs are automatically generated in alignment with all global SEF settings:

• URL ID (on/off)
• URL Suffix
• Trailing Slash (no change / force with / force without)
• Strict Handling of index.php.

Officially Supports

All Joomla Elements

• Articles
• Multipage articles
• Single article
• Articles category
• Category blog (+ pagination and tags filter)
• Category list (+ pagination and tags filter)
• List all categories in an article category tree
• Archived articles (+ pagination and categories filter)
• Featured articles (+ pagination)
• Tag (+ full hierarchy support)
• Tagged items (+ pagination, content types filter and language filter)
• Compact list of tagged items (+ pagination, content types filter and language filter)
• List all tags (+ pagination, parent tag filter and language filter)
• Search (+ pagination, pre-filled search term and search filters)
• Login form
• Registration form
• Password reset
• Username reminder request
• Newsfeeds
• Single newsfeed
• Feed category
• List news feeds in a category
• List all categories in a news feed category tree
• Contacts
• Contacts category
• Single contact
• List contacts in a category
• Featured Contacts
• Menu item.

CONVERT FORMS

• Form.

SP PAGE BUILDER

• Page.

JEVENTS

• Category
• Events
• Date range
• List by year
• View by Month
• List by Week
• List by Day
• List of Events
• Search JEvents.

Explore all features and in-depth guides in our official documentation.

Translations

The Extension is translated into the following languages:

• Italian
• English
• German
• Spanish
• French
• Russian
• Chinese