Self referencing canonical issue

[damianb123]

Hi,
Were running 2.2.5, everything works great except when using paginated content on category pages. If we go to page 2, or page 3, the rel=canonical tag just remains at the root category and doesnt append ?p=2 to the path.

Can anybody offer any advice, or guide me to how this is created?

Thanks

[gelanivishal]

Hello @damianb123 ,

Follow the simple to enable Canonical Meta Tag in Magento 2

• On the Admin panel, click Stores. In the Settings section, select Configuration.
• Select Catalog under Catalog in the panel on the left
• Open the Search Engine Optimizations section, and continue with following:

Look at 2 last fields:

• If you want search engines to index only pages that have a full category path, do the following:
  • In the Use Canonical Link Meta Tag for Categories field, select Yes
  • In the Use Canonical Link Meta Tag for Products field, select No
• If you want search engines to index only product pages, do the following:
  • In the Use Canonical Link Meta Tag for Categories field, select No
  • In the Use Canonical Link Meta Tag for Products field, select Yes
• If you want search engines to index both Catelogories and Products, do the following:
  • In the Use Canonical Link Meta Tag for Categories field, select Yes
  • In the Use Canonical Link Meta Tag for Products field, select Yes
• When completing, click Save Config.

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[damianb123]

Hi Gelanivishal,

      We already have the canonical META tag showing, however if we go to a paginated page i.e. page 2, or page 3 we need the canonical to be self referencing rather than pointing to the parent category.  So currently it looks like:

rel="canonical" URL="https://www.mywebsite.com/category/"

We need it to be:

rel="canonical" URL="https://www.mywebsite.com/category/?p=2"

Note the page number on the end....

Thanks

Damian