HASH sign in URL's in Layered Navigation. What must me done?

[cagrie]

the hash sign (#) is ignored by the search engines during indexing and therefore our ajax filtered layered navigation links never end up in the SERPs.

 

but I found this guide in google where they explain how to use the hash tag SE friendly by appending a ! sign to it - #!

 

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174992?hl=en

 

can it be done for layered navigation, do you think?

[agenceweb74]

Hello Cragie,

 

Looks like this is an interesting subject. We also came accross this subject with Ajax Solar facet search.

 

You can proceed in two step :

1. With prestashop you can easily appending the ! exclamation after the # hash, this will need some refactoring into prestashop/modules/blocklayered/blocklayered.js ) .
2. Then, you will need to add a hook on every concerned controllers (usually Category controller only), in order to handle specific google bot requests asking for ?_escaped_fragment_=mystate (and then return the result of the ajaxCall() in appropriate product-list.tpl)

Edited September 4, 2014 by agenceweb74 (see edit history)

[cagrie]

Thanks man but editing js files way beyond my reach

 

let's hope for someone from the presta team incorporates this in future versions.

[GS VISION]

You don`t really need to remove it. Just point to google that you use AJAX 

 

Here is the guide: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174992?hl=en 

And step-by-step for developers: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started

 

All you need is to modify the php file of the module to serve the escaped_fragment_ get variable just like the selected_filters one.  Here is how I did it (blocklayered.php) : 

			if (Tools::getValue('selected_filters'))
				$url = Tools::getValue('selected_filters');
			else if (Tools::getValue('_escaped_fragment_'))
			$url = Tools::getValue('_escaped_fragment_');
			else
				$url = preg_replace('/(?<=#!).*/', '$1', Tools::safeOutput($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], true));

and change the url of the filter links from # to #! at the php and js file (it done on many places in the file, so just search for '#' or '#/' 

Good luck!

[eversunpl]

I have problem with change the #. When i change its working only with select only one category or one producent, i cant select more. Do you know how to fix it? My prestashop version is 1.6.11.