Canonical URL is a great way to focus SEO power. Without it, search engines would have no idea which particular page among all the similar pages are the most important. Magento, as sophisticated as it can get, does have lots of similar pages regarding the same piece of content such as a product.
When you are adding social buttons, it may not be enough to just add the button and let it detect the current page URL itself. For example, when the user clicks “Edit” of a cart item and gets to the edit page of that item, it’s almost the same as the canonical item page.
If you have social buttons on that page then chances are they won’t be useful at all because they would be promoting the edit page rather than the canonical page. Thus, we need to feed canonical URL rather than the current page URL to them.
How to get the canonical URL of a product programmatically?
It’s as simple as this:
echo $product->getUrlModel()->getUrl($product, array('_ignore_category'=>true));Make sure you change $product to whatever you are using for the product in your PHTML template.
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