I have been building my site for months now using K2 and today - when I almost finished - to my surprise I realized that K2 has been building a lot of duplicated URLs. The guys over at anything-digital said that it's a K2 issue and not a sh404SEF issue, which is cleary true.

First the damn tags are producing a duplicated URL every time an article has been posted with already an existend tag. This describes it pretty well .

This issue is not new to K2, related threads has been posted in the past with not so useful solutions.

See here and here .

Then I get duplicated URLs on menu items, for instance

It's very frustrating and sad that the official K2 developers haven't properly addressed this serious issue since years. At this point K2 is simply not SEO-friendly. If this issue won't be addressed this time, I'm afraid I have to say goodbye to K2 and write an appropriate review over at the extensions directory.

Matt

I have a similar problem, also with sh404sef.

Every time I create a new article, the modules (on the right side in my case) doesn't show.
I have to manually tell sh404sef to add them (by writing correct url with itemid) each time. Sure, that works, but it's some job to do as it also means I have to add them to tags etc.

Has anyone had this problem?

Edit:
Found this solution but I would rather find a solution without making changes in code (as it will disappear when I upgrade)

1. Go to modules/mod_k2_tools/tmpl/search.php

and add this line in front inside of some php:

$Itemid = JRequest::getInt( ‘Itemid’);

then on line 16 change this:

<form action=”<?php echo JRoute::_(‘index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=search’); ?>” method=”get”>

to:

<form action=”<?php echo JRoute::_(‘index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=search&Itemid=’.$Itemid); ?>” method=”get”>

2. Go to components/com_k2/helpers/route.php

on line 111 you see this:
$link = 'index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=tag&tag='.urlencode($tag);

if ($item = K2HelperRoute::_findItem($needles)) {
$link .= '&Itemid='.$item->id;
}
;

change it to this:
$link = 'index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=tag&tag='.urlencode($tag);

$Itemid = JRequest::getInt( 'Itemid');

$link .= '&Itemid='.$Itemid;

Does anyone know a place where we can get better support?

I tried flexicontent and it doesn't have duplicated URL issues with tags. This K2 issue needs to be addressed.

I also have the same problem, duplicated content because k2 is identifying the item only with the last part of the url.
getk2.org/blog/item/694-the-old-k2-community-will-soon-close-down
getk2.org/documentation/item/694-the-old-k2-community-will-soon-close-down
will lead you to the same item.

I'm not that sorry about that issue, I'm more worry about this that it seems that the K2 team is not willed to provide support on issue which are provided from the user....

Im sorry to hear that.. I have a similar problem

I am about to give up on K2 except for using it as an external blog for this issue. Also having to resort to using the joomla article manager for content on my site for another issue see here

Using sh404sef gave me a bunch of duplicate urls and would have to delete them multiple times to get the page to load.

Constant 404 errors when linking to and item from the menu.

Not Sure how i fixed it but it involved disable everything deleting the article and starting over from scratch

but then it Started again

Have either of you had any luck?

mhhhh.... this is a HUGE problem

I have a very complete site of tourist information, and I fully use the tags system and every K2 tool that it offers. I use to Simple Image Gallery PRO and other 3thd party extensions. Here is my site in 4 languages: www.infoiguassu.com

But this URL issue is killing my search results:

For example, for this only item in portuguese: www.infoiguassu.com/pt/onde-comprar/vinhos/item/70-adega-caminos

K2 creates this others:

www.infoiguassu.com/pt/atracoes/item/70-vinoteca-caminos
www.infoiguassu.com/pt/atracoes/represa-itaipu/item/70-vinoteca-caminos
www.infoiguassu.com/pt/foz-do-iguacu/item/70-vinoteca-caminos
www.infoiguassu.com/pt/onde-comer/cafeteria/item/70-vinoteca-caminos
www.infoiguassu.com/pt/onde-comprar/vinhos/item/70-adega-caminos
www.infoiguassu.com/pt/onde-comprar/vinhos/item/70-vinoteca-caminos
www.infoiguassu.com/pt/onde-ficar/hotel/item/70-vinoteca-caminos
www.infoiguassu.com/pt/onde-ficar/pousada/item/70-vinoteca-caminos

It's like any visitor can acess that only article from every section of my site: only adding "/item/70-vinoteca-caminos" at the end of the URL

This is KILLING all my work

I wonder why are the JoomlaWorks team doesn't replying this topic. I supose they know that it's a HUGE problem of K2 and solving this mean a LOT of work, maybe changing the core behaviour

Hope the best cause I really like K2 design and functions, and this is a very active community. Regards!

Gee, this looks like a huge issue! Has there ever been an answer from a moderator?

Have you find any solution for this problem? It's really a very big problem with K2. Since using K2, my google traffic has decreased because of this duplication. If you found any solution for it please share

thanks

No response form the K2 Team until now... :pinch: Neither a clue to minimize the damage that this issue creates in our sites

Rly I have now a big mess of duplicated content, and I have no idea of how to stop it.

I supose that a good way to solve this is creating a good site map, a sitemap that allow Google index only the content that you wanna show to your visitors. But... oh! good point... K2 doesn't come with a built-in sitemap generator :dry: . No hope in the third party area, neither the good ones. The way K2 manages the content url is a little confussing.

Until now the only way, is creating a sitemap manually :silly: .

Look at this:
The article:http://getk2.org/blog/item/716-the-new-k2-demo-site
Duplicate Articles in different urls:
getk2.org/blog/item/716-the-new-k2-demo-site/item/716-the-new-k2-demo-site
getk2.org/blog/item/716-the-new-k2-demo-site/item/716-the-new-k2-demo-site/item/716-the-new-k2-demo-site
getk2.org/documentation/item/724-k2-v256-released
getk2.org/extend/item/724-k2-v256-released
etc, etc, etc
Quite funny :cheer:

BTW, I rly like K2 but this is a Huge problem. Regards!