# Canonical Chaos, Round Four: Victory in Sight ![Canonical Chaos, Round Four: Victory in Sight](https://cdn.richeyweb.com/images/articles/joomlas-canonical-url-chaos/round-4-canonical.webp) I have been slashing through Joomla’s canonical [URL](/blog/development/joomlas-canonical-url-chaos "Joomla’s Canonical URL Chaos") [chaos](/blog/personal/this-is-how-you-kill-joomla-as-a-platform "This Is How You Kill Joomla as a Platform") because I am done watching sites - mine included - suffer unindexed [pages](/white-hat-seo/curated-backlinks "Curated Backlinks"), poisoned [SERPs](/blog/hosting/unavailable-after-white-hat-seo-hack-might-be-paying-off "unavailable_after White-Hat SEO Hack Might Be Paying Off"), and weak fixes that choke or charge. Three rounds in, my [plugin](/blog/development/bug-reports-a-developers-best-friend-not-a-burden "Bug Reports: A Developer's Best Friend, Not a Burden") has hit com\_contact to com\_weblinks, tamed com\_k2, axed [start=0](/blog/development/canonical-chaos-round-three-polishing-the-blade "Canonical Chaos, Round Three: Polishing the Blade") junk, and now, as of April 5, 2025, I have added support for com\_ars - the stellar Akeeba Release System - to enhance its URL handling. Every tweak, every test, every live run has pushed me closer to the goal. Now I am at Google’s mercy - re-indexing pages that once tanked for a dozen reasons. It is a slog; Search Console updates every 3-4 days, with no VIP pass here - but the results are deeply encouraging, improving with zero changes lately. ## Results That Speak Google’s pace is slow, but the payoff is real. Pages once lost to duplicates or bad URLs - like com\_tags’s /tags/3 - are clawing back. My plugin has locked canonicals across com\_content, com\_users, com\_finder, the [core](/blog/personal/pre-configured-client-extension-inspired-by-sap "Pre-Configured Client Extension Inspired by SAP") gang, plus com\_k2 and now com\_ars, live on my sites since March. I have made no changes in weeks, yet Search Console keeps showing gains: more pages indexed, fewer errors. That is the plugin at work - taming /tags/3 into /tags/joomla, scrubbing start=0, and supporting com\_ars’s already-great system. It is not luck; it is proof this [fight](/blog/personal/joomla-numbers-dont-lie "Joomla Numbers Don’t Lie") is worth every second. ## Google’s Pace, My Patience At 99-point-something percent, I am riding the last stretch to 100%. Google’s crawl - 3 and 4-day cycles in Search Console - is the bottleneck; big shots might get faster, but I get patience. Still, those steady wins tell me it is solid: com\_ars URLs fit seamlessly, com\_content lists ditch start=0, SERP poison is toast. Live testing is my forge - com\_contact to com\_weblinks, plus third-party like com\_ars - and it is hammering out a release-ready beast. [Joomla](/blog/hosting/cron-vs-joomla-lazy-scheduler-and-webcron "Cron vs Joomla Lazy Scheduler and WebCron") has never had this kind of canonical muscle. ## A New Battle Plan I am rethinking deployment. Why one mega-plugin when I can unleash a new breed: standalone fixer plugins, each a sniper for its component - com\_tags, com\_content, even com\_ars? Every fixer class I have built - like the com\_ars support for Akeeba’s system or com\_tags’s ID-to-alias swap - could stand alone, rendering perfect canonical URLs. It is flexible, [simple](/blog/personal/someone-elses-code "Someone Else’s Code"), and [free](/blog/development/new-geoip-coming-soon "New GeoIP Coming Soon") - pick your fix, write your own, join the fight. It is still brewing, but it is the future I am chasing: chaos crushed, component by component. ## The Final Strike Victory is close - 100% glimmers ahead. Google’s re-indexing will lock it in, but the results already roar success - from core cleanup to com\_ars harmony. This is my Bad Wolf moment: canonical chaos - start=0, tag IDs, any stray flub - dies, Joomla’s URLs shine, SERPs purify. I am fighting for a Joomla where Search Console is a friend, not a foe, where every component’s canonical is ironclad. Round four is mine, and I am plotting a fifth - not to rest, but to redefine how we win this war. For me, for you, for Joomla - forever. ## A Promise, Not a Tease This is not vaporware. Anyone who has looked at my [extension](/blog/development/before-you-blame-the-developer "Before you blame the developer...") portfolio at [RicheyWeb](/blog/development/canonical-http-headers-for-rss-feeds "Canonical HTTP Headers for RSS Feeds") knows I am not afraid to release oddball extensions and niche tools alongside core fixes and even the occasional extension-for-spite - (NicePanel has a fun history - I released it for free because IcePanel sucked and was a paid extension). This might be one of my most important contributions to Joomla - there is no way I am keeping this to myself. 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