Overview of PrestaShop Friendly URL Addon

In the digital landscape, the power of a clean URL cannot be underestimated. It serves as a bridge between your content and the search engines. SEO-friendly URLs not only facilitate customers in effortless navigation but also make your website more reachable on social networks with the social graph feature.

Being our best-seller, our developers always pay a special focus on the PrestaShop Friendly URL addon. They are keen to enhance the functionalities and design of the module at regular intervals. This provides our customers with even more powerful tools to optimize their online stores’ URLs and also enhances user experience.

The current version of SEO URL PrestaShop introduces more exciting features designed to streamline the SEO efforts and provide greater flexibility in managing the PrestaShop websites. You can experience a blend of features, listed below:

Features of Pretty URL PrestaShop

1. URL Cleaner:

In PrestaShop, default URLs created are lengthy, and difficult to understand. To resolve this issue FME has developed a module PrestaShop Pretty URL. The major feature offered by the PrestaShop-friendly URL module is to provide you the SEO Optimized URLs without any numbers or special characters, and is more enhanced now.

You can clean the URLs from your product, categories, suppliers, manufacturers, and CMS pages. Our Prestashop-friendly URL module provides a report on duplicate and conflicting URLs for products and categories if they exists, so that you can troubleshoot and correct easily.

Other Features Offered in URL Cleaner Are:

• Improved User Interface: New and improved design
• ISO Removal: Option to remove language ISO from default language
• Separate URL Settings: Each page type has its own url settings; i.e. Product, Category, CMS, Brands and Suppliers
• Remove IDs/Attributes: PrestaShop remove ID from URL can be easily done, also ID Attributes, Attributes Alias from desired separately
• Redirect URLs: Redirect old urls to new urls to prevent 404 errors
• PrestaShop URL Rewrite: Option to rewrite url structure of all page types separately

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2. Meta Tag Manager:

Say goodbye to a manual way of creating meta tags for your web pages. Our updated Clean URL module adds an Auto Meta Tag Generator feature, that automatically generates meta titles, descriptions, and keywords based on variables. This can save your time and ensures your pages are well optimized for search engines.

Features Offered in Meta Tag Management include:

• Meta Generation: Auto Generate Meta titles, Meta Description and Meta Keywords
• Meta creation for any page: Auto Generate Meta for Homepage, Categories, CMS, and all Product pages
• Variable selection for Meta: Variable-based architecture allows you to set Meta on time only and the module will change it for each product automatically
• Multi-lingual support: Full multi-language support helps you to generate Meta in any language

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3. URL Redirects:

With the addition of 301, 302, and 303 redirection options, you have greater control over managing URL redirects on your PrestaShop URLs. Either you are restructuring your website or moving your current pages to a new destination, you can easily set up permanent or temporary redirects to maintain the SEO equity and ensure a smooth user experience, while maintaining your current search rankings.

Features included in URL Redirection are:

• Set triggers: Option to set trigger type according to your server. It could be either .htaccess file or controller based.
• Redirect 404 pages: Option to redirect all 404 error pages to Home or any CMS page
• Set Redirect types: Redirects URLs with 301, 302 or 303 redirect types
• 404 Report: Easily view all 404 pages with a report view and having option to customize each page

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4. Facebook and Twitter Open Graph:

A current version of PrestaShop Pretty URL is also offering the option to setup Facebook and Twitter Open Graphs.

The feature is helpful when your webpages are shared on social media platforms. Suppose a user shared your website link on a social media platforms, the information would be automatically extracted from the webpages to display a title and description. The results in the irrelevant information being extracted.

Open Graph feature resolves this issue with the Open Graph protocol, which allows you to have control over how your webpage appears on any social platforms.

Features Offered by Facebook and Twitter Open Graph are:

• Set Open Graphs: Option to set up open graph for Facebook and Twitter
• Fill in Information: Option to upload a custom image, ALT tag for Twitter, title and description for Facebook and Twitter
• Multi-Lingual Support: Support multiple languages

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5. Robot.txt File Generation:

Robots.txt is a text file, created to instruct the robots how to crawl pages on a website, also you can restrict the robots to access/crawl the important pages of your website.

The new Pretty URL module simplifies the process of creating and managing your website's robot.txt file. Customize directives to control search engine crawlers' access to specific areas of your site, improving indexation and ensuring that your content is properly crawled and indexed.

• Robot file creation: Users can Generate robot.txt file with a single click and can customize the existing robot file easily

6. Sitemap Generation:

A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Easily Generate Sitemaps for your Prestashop store with the integrated sitemap generation feature. Submitting sitemaps to search engines helps them discover and index your website's pages more efficiently, ultimately improving your site's visibility and ranking in search results.

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Other Features Offered by Sitemap Generator are:

• Select pages for Sitemap: Generate sitemaps for all urls, only CMS page, only Product pages or only Category page
• Set Frequency: Set frequency of sitemap generation
• Multi Language Sitemap: Generate sitemaps for all languages in a single click
• Add HTTP/HTTPS: Add HTTP or HTTPS to the links included in the sitemap
• Inform search engine on a new sitemap: Ping search engines when new sitemap is generated
• Add Images in Sitemap: Include Image to the sitemap
• Images from CDN: Include images from the CDN
• Page excluded from sitemap: Exclude pages from sitemaps which you do not want to add them in the sitemap file
• Multi-shop supported: Supports multiple shops in a website