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Magento Search Engine Optimization
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Magento Search Engine Optimization

by Robert Kent
January 2014
Beginner to intermediate
132 pages
2h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adjusting our Magento configuration for SEO

A really quick and easy adjustment we can make to our entire website URL structure is to remove the default index.php string that is appended to the base URL—for example, http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/my-product.html—and also auto-redirect to our base URL if the non-www version of our domain is entered.

In order to achieve these small fixes, we should perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to System | Configuration | Web | Search Engines Optimization and set Use Web Server Rewrites to Yes to remove index.php.
  2. Within this same section but under URL Options, set Auto-redirect to Base URL to Yes (301 Moved Permanently).

As long as our server has been configured correctly and our default .htaccess file is ...

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