Aimy Canonical V21.2 Plugin Free Download

Aimy Canonical creates a canonical link tag for your website. Plugin for Joomla! 3 and 4.

A canonical link tag helps with search engine optimization to prevent the duplicate content problem: set the preferred domain and preferred protocol ("http" or "https") with this system plugin for all of your website's pages.

Aimy Canonical is easy to set up and ready for use in about 5 minutes.

Please note that Aimy Canonical does not handle the path of the URL in the free version. For some special cases or custom canonical paths use the PRO version.

If necessary, you can change protocol and/or domain information using the PRO version for single items as well.

Documentation:

Introduction
The Joomla! plugin Aimy Canonical allows you to set a unique domain name and protocol that is used to create a canonical link tag for all of your website's pages. Aimy Canonical PRO provides a couple of ways to handle a canonical link's path as well.

Using a canonical link tag helps to optimize your website for search engines, as it allows you to set a preferred domain and protocol used for all of your URLs. This way, the common duplicate content problem, which arises from multiple URLs having the same content, can be prevented.

Therefore, Aimy Canonical enriches your website's HTML code with a canonical link tag, which looks like this:

A typical canonical URL provides protocol, domain and path information — and maybe an appended query string:

This manual guides you through all steps necessary to install and use the plugin.

Installation
The installation of the extension follows the common Joomla! procedures.

In case you are not familiar with these procedures, proceed as follows:

Download the extension's ZIP archive
Log into your Joomla! backend as "Super User"
From the menu, choose "Extensions" → "Manage" → "Install"
Click on the "Or browse for file" button and select the ZIP archive
The extension's archive will be uploaded and installed afterwards.

For further information, please have a look at the Joomla! documentation Installing an Extension.

NOTE: All plugins are disabled by Joomla! when installed for the first time. To enable Aimy Canonical, proceed and configure the plugin.

Configuration
After a fresh installation, click on the "Configure plugin now" button on the installation report page.

At any time, you can configure the Aimy Canonical plugin using Joomla!'s Plugin Manager by choosing "Extensions" → "Plugin Manager" from the menu. Locate the plugin and click on its name in the "Plugin Name" column of the plugin listing.

In order to use the plugin's functionality, you have to enable it first.

To do so, change the plugin's status from "Disabled" to "Enabled" and apply your changes by clicking on either the "Save" or "Save & Close" button in the toolbar.