Prestashop Friendly Clean URL | Remove & Rewrite IDs | Pretty URLs

Prestashop Friendly URL - Highlighted Features

1. With the Prestashop URL clean feature, your Presta store URLs are now better optimized which improves search engine rankings.
2. The Prestashop Friendly URL module works seamlessly with custom modules

Friendly URL PrestaShop, being one of the best Prestashop SEO URL Modules receives special attention from our developers. They are keen to enhance the functionalities and design of the PrestaShop Friendly URL 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 Friendly URL PrestaShop introduces more exciting features designed to streamline the SEO efforts and provide greater flexibility in managing the PrestaShop stores. With PrestaShop Pretty URL, one can experience a blend of features, highlighted in the video as well:

PrestaShop SEO-Friendly URL Module: Remove IDs for Cleaner Links

Discover our PrestaShop SEO-Friendly URL Module: Remove IDs for Cleaner Links, transforming messy defaults like '/category/123-product.html' into '/category/product-name' for better rankings and user trust.

How to Remove IDs from PrestaShop URLs for SEO-Friendly Links (Step-by-Step Guide)

By default, the URLs of the product pages are not well-optimized for search engines and readability. The URLs are mostly comprised of numbers, IDs, and more such characters that could be confusing for users and Google algorithms alike. These URLs impact your site's SEO negatively and lead to poor user experience.

For example, you can consider a user landing on your product page with a URL like www.example.com/category.php?id=123—it tells them nothing about the content they’re about to go through here. Plus, it is also difficult for search engines to rank such URLs on relevant queries. That’s why such links are the main hurdles to attracting more visitors to your e-commerce store.

Frustrated Users Mean Lost Opportunities

With unclean URLs, you are not only losing traffic but also the feature of share-ability. The unprofessional URLs also reduce potential customers’ trust in your website and prevent them from engaging with your brand.

Furthermore, the IDS in URLs can sabotage your SEO efforts as these URLs can also lead to 404 errors.

PrestaShop Friendly URL Add-on Is The Way to Go

Wondering how to remove IDs from PrestaShop URLs for SEO-friendly links? Our module automates the process: Simply install, enable 'Remove ID' in the URL Cleaner, and watch your links transform—complete with redirects to avoid errors.

Key Highlights of this Innovative Prestashop Pretty URL Module

• The Prestashop Friendly URL Module cleans your store URL from elements like numbers and IDs. This way there is a higher possibility of your product page ranking and driving organic traffic.
• The integrated social graph feature of this friendly url PrestaShop module makes your store URL more shareable on different social media platforms. With clean URLs, your product looks more professional and shareable.
• No more 404 errors as the robust redirection mechanism of this modules automatically handles URL changes and makes sure the old links point to the right new pages.
• With clean URLs, the user experience improves as they can now better understand the website and URL structure. For example, a URL like www.example.com/laptops/dell-inspiron instantly communicates what the page is about.
  

Case Study: The Impact of the Pretty URL Module on arcobesta.com E-commerce Site

Overview

This case study analyzes the SEO impact of implementing a Pretty URL (ID removal) strategy on a PrestaShop-based eCommerce store https://www.arcobesta.com/. The objective was to replace default numeric-based URLs (e.g., /123-product-name.html) with clean, keyword-focused URLs (e.g., /product-name.html) while maintaining SEO equity through proper 301 redirects.

Before Pretty URL:

After Pretty URL:

Impact of Pretty URL Optimization on PrestaShop Organic Traffic

The website was analyzed using Ahrefs, comparing performance before and after URL optimization.

Results (Ahrefs Comparison)

Takeaways from Case Studies

While removing IDs alone does not guarantee ranking improvements, implementing a well-structured Pretty URL strategy — combined with proper redirects and slug optimization — can significantly enhance organic performance.

This case demonstrates that URL refinement, when executed correctly, can contribute to measurable SEO growth without risking ranking stability.

For PrestaShop stores aiming to scale organic traffic, clean URL architecture should be part of a broader technical SEO strategy.

Prestashop Pretty (Friendly) URL - Top Features

1. Cleans Your Prestashop Store's URL

The default URLs are difficult to understand in the Prestashop store. That’s where you can count on the Prestashop Friendly URL which automatically cleans your URL by removing numbers or any special characters.

The store admin can effortlessly clean the URLs from products, categories, suppliers, manufacturers, and CMS pages. Our Prestashop Pretty URL module provides a report on duplicate and conflicting URLs for products and categories if they exist. Hence, the store admins can easily troubleshoot and sort out the problem.

• New and Improved interface so anyone could use it without any technical knowledge. 
• You can easily remove the ISO language from the default language tab. 
• You get separate URL settings for each page, ranging from Product, Category, CMS, Brands, Suppliers, and more.
• Offers the remove IDs/attributes from URL feature
• Automatically redirects the URLs and ensures that 404 errors are prevented. 
• You can easily rewrite the URL structure of all page types separately.

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2. Effective Meta Tag Manager

You no longer have to rely on a manual way of creating meta tags for your PrestaShop stores. Our updated Pretty URL PrestaShop module adds an Auto Meta Tag Generator feature that automatically generates meta titles, descriptions, and keywords based on variables. This advanced feature can save you time and effort, along with improving the search engine rankings.

• Auto-Generate Meta Titles, Meta Descriptions, and Meta Keywords
• Auto-Generate Meta for Homepage, Categories, CMS, and all Product pages
• Variable-based architecture allows you to set Meta on time only, and the module will change it for each product automatically
• Full multi-language support helps you to generate Meta in any language

Manage Meta Tags

3. URL Redirects - The Best Feature of Prestashop Friendly URL

With the addition of 301, 302, and 303 redirection options in the PrestaShop Pretty URL module, the admin has greater control over managing URL redirects on your PrestaShop URLs. Whether 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 SEO equity and ensure a smooth user experience while maintaining your current search rankings.

• Option to set trigger type according to your server. It could be either an access file or a controller-based.
• Option to redirect all 404 error pages to Home or any CMS page
• Redirects URLs with 301, 302, or 303 redirect types
• Easily view all 404 pages with a report view and have the option to customize each page

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4. Facebook and Twitter Open Graph

A current version of PrestaShop Friendly URL also offers the option to set up Facebook and Twitter Open Graphs.

The feature is helpful when your web pages are shared on social media platforms. Suppose a user shared your website link on a social media platform; the information would be automatically extracted from the webpages to display a title and description.

The 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 platform.

• Option to set up open graphs for Facebook and Twitter
• Option to upload a custom image, ALT tag for Twitter, title, and description for Facebook and Twitter
• Support multiple languages
  

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5. Robot.txt File Generation

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

The new Prestashop Friendly URL simplifies the process of creating and managing your website's robots.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.

The store admin can easily generate a robots.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.

• Generate sitemaps for all URLs, only CMS pages, only Product pages, or only Category pages
• Set the frequency of sitemap generation
• Generate sitemaps for all languages in a single click
• Add HTTP or HTTPS to the links included in the sitemap
• Ping search engines when a new sitemap is generated
• Include an Image in the sitemap
• Include images from the CDN
• Exclude pages from sitemaps that you do not want to add to the sitemap file
• Supports multiple shops on a website

Generate Sitemaps