With our plugin you will get real canonical links for your Joomla content/K2/VM3/EasyBlog. We've tried all other solutions, tried Joomla 3 native solution, and found out that they all had various issues.

We care about SEO, so we decided to develop a plugin to cover all the needs you may have. Have a look at some of its features:

Joomla support

Article view
Category view
Category list view
Featured view
Tag view
Archive view
Pagination series
Fixes invalid canonicals from native J3

K2 support

Item view
Category/Itemlist view
Tag view
User view
Latest view   
Pagination series

VirtueMart support

Based on native VM solution
Fixes double canonicals in Joomla 3 with VM 3
Adds missing domain name to canonicals per Google recommendation

EasyBlog support

Based on native EasyBlog solution
Extra pagination canonicals
Adds missing domain name to canonicals per Google recommendation

Also included

Permanent redirection option
Alternative domain for canonical
Override canonical links
Remove specific canonical links
Remove trailing slash
Automatic updates
Free updates for one year
Free support for one year
Compatible with Joomla 2.5/3.x
Unlimited use (GNU/GPL licence)

Recent changes:

3.47 (2020/07/05)
* If an article is directly linked in multiple menus, make sure to always use the same one for the canonical link
+ Make sure the plugin is also compatible with PHP 5.3 and 5.4
* Minor changes

3.46 (2019/02/01)
* Virtuemart inner pagination pages should not be redirected

3.45 (2019/01/07)
+ Support for Joomla tags
* Overriden canonicals not always correct

3.44 (2018/04/25)
* Joomla 3.8.7 introduced a bug that could result in an endless redirection for some category links, under specific cirmustances. Fix the issue internally until layout in links is properly factored into account in Joomla.

3.43 (2018/04/20)
* Joomla older than 3.8.2 could show a warning when sh404sef not installed

3.42 (2018/04/07)
+ Improved compatibility with sh404sef
* EasyBlog: warning on PHP 7.1 with pagination

3.41 (2017/12/13)
* K2: Some systems to not detected properly if tag is filtered
* K2: Some systems require to check against urldecoded tag as well when searching for the tag menu*
* Virtuemart: Check if homepage should have a .html suffix or not
* Alternative domain adjustment

3.40 (2017/03/20)
* K2: Check if menu has a different language than default

3.39 (2017/02/13)
* Joomla 2.5: properly detect whether url rewriting is enabled

3.38 (2017/01/25)
* When url rewriting is disabled (/index.php/ shows in all links), canonical link may not be correct

3.37 (2017/01/23)
* Permanent redirect issue introduced in 3.36 few hours ago

3.36 (2017/01/23)
+ Option to ignore specific query variables (advanced)
* K2: Set canonical for itemlist view where there is no ID set (rare)

3.35 (2016/11/23)
* Properly encode canonical link for K2 tags with spaces

3.34 (2016/10/25)
* Make sure canonical link is also set for links like www.example.com/component/content/article?id=xx

3.33 (2016/08/23)
+ Enable wildcard support for removing canonical links
* Encode canonical link parts, improvement for links with utf-8 characters

3.32 (2016/07/30)
* EasyBlog pagination check fail

3.31 (2016/07/29)
+ Override canonicals
+ Remove canonicals
* Alternative domain for Virtuemart was not set correctly
* Joomla 2.5: Multilanguage homepage not always detected

3.30 (2016/06/22)
* EasyBlog pagination link corrected

3.29 (2016/06/22)
+ EasyBlog 5 support

3.28 (2016/05/02)
+ One click updates using native Joomla interface

3.27 (2016/03/12)
+ Option to enable/disable redirection between slashed and non-slashed page
* K2: Do not redirect ChronoForms for K2

3.26 (2016/03/02)
* Virtuemart: enable redirection possibility for productdetails, category, manufacturer and virtuemart views