A popular self-hosted ecommerce platform in Europe. Capable and configurable — with the layered-navigation and duplicate-URL problems common to faceted catalogs.
PrestaShop is self-hosted, so you control the server, .htaccess, and Friendly URLs — but you also own performance, SSL, and security. Its SEO profile centers on the catalog: layered (faceted) navigation multiplies filter URLs, products reachable through multiple category paths create duplicates, and Friendly URLs plus canonicals must be configured correctly or you ship duplicate-content clusters. Multistore setups add another duplication axis. Most fixes are admin-configuration plus server-level performance work.
Reference: PrestaShop SEO guide →
Specific to how PrestaShop is built — not generic checklist advice.
PrestaShop's faceted search generates URLs for filter combinations (price, attributes, features). Uncontrolled, crawlers drown in them and category pages lose priority. Restrict which filter URLs are crawlable and canonical filtered views back to the base category.
A product in several categories can resolve under multiple URLs. Ensure Friendly URLs are enabled and canonicals enforce one product URL, or the duplication splits ranking signals across your catalog.
Full fix guide →Self-hosted means caching, a tuned server, valid SSL, and security headers are your responsibility. PrestaShop stores frequently ship without HSTS/CSP and run slow without caching enabled. Turn on PrestaShop's caching, configure headers, and keep the install patched.
Full fix guide →We catalog 89 PrestaShop fixes — exact steps for PrestaShop's admin and theme, each with a link to the official docs.
Reduce Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) to under 2.5 seconds by serving your hero image in a modern format, preloading it, and eliminating render-blocking resources.
Write a unique, page-specific meta description for every page on your store so Google can display a relevant snippet in search results.
Write a unique, descriptive title tag for every page on your store so no two pages share the same title.
Point every faceted/filter URL's canonical tag to the clean, unfiltered category URL (or add noindex) so Google treats filtered pages as one authoritative page instead of thousands of duplicates.
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