I REALIZE SOMETHING NEW!

I can put wathever I want at the end of my articles urls (or any K2 site) and this is not going to give you 404 errors. I mean... look at this:

getk2.org/blog/item/724-k2-v256-released
getk2.org/blog/item/724-k2-v256-releasedILOVEDONUTS
getk2.org/blog/item/724-k2-v256-releasedHAILTOTHEKING
getk2.org/blog/item/724-k2-v256-releasedBERCELONATHEBEST
getk2.org/blog/item/724-k2-v256-releasedMESSI10

THE URL AUTO CREATION IS UNLIMITED! HAHAHA :lol:

Please, some help for any moderator... at least help me to figure out the problem

The design is amazing, THE SEO IS HORRIBLE

Regards!

William White I see you answering all other posts and no response here, what is wrong with this issue?

PLEASE SOME EXPLANATION HERE!!!!!!!

Im not an seo expert

Hi William, thanks to answer

Sad to heard that, but anyway I don't want for a FIX, I only wanna to know If this is a real problem of K2?

K2 is creating URLS like...

..../itemlist/tag/....
..../itemlist/user/....
..../itemlist/category/....
..../item/id/....

...and google is indexing this pages like duplicated meta

Regards!

Hi everbody,
we managed to solve our problems so:
1) migrate all content to K2
2) Unpublish and archive all old Joomla content
3) Change menus so that they refer to K2
4) set in all k2-items SEF-urls in the alias
5) then we installed sh404SEF (commercial extension). This took all the category and id reference out of the URLs
6) always in sh404SEF I manually entered the old Joomla-URLs as alias of the new ones (I had issues a sitemap of the old content beforehand)
7) install K2 extension to Xmap (non commercial) and generate a new sitemap and set it in the Google Webmaster Tools
I left the tag menus out of the sitemap in order to avoid double index.

So we now have SEF-urls and nice K2 content display. If the system is creating some double pages, then sh404SEF takes care of them. K2 does not create as many double pages as Joomla does. At the beginning I did not unpublish and archive the old Joomla articles and got only a mess out of it. As soon as only K2 and sh404SEF worked together, I got it all fixed up. You can have a look at the outcome at www.familothek.de .
There was no way around buying the licence for sh404SEF or another K2-compatible SEF-Extension (they are all commercial), though.
Good luck :)

Has anyone else been able to solve this HUGE ISSUE with K2 using sh404SEF?

What a SEO JOKE!!!

3211 views and no comment from anyone from K2 but William saying I'm no SEO expert. You don't need to be an SEO expert to read Google Webmaster Tools flagging all your duplicate content!

Taken from the Official K2 site:

Primary url for this article:
getk2.org/blog/item/880-new-k2-video-class-by-ostraining

Just some of the many url's to the same article:
getk2.org/documentation/tips-a-tricks/item/880-new-k2-video-class-by-ostraining
getk2.org/extend/templates/date/item/880-new-k2-video-class-by-ostraining
getk2.org/documentation/videos/item/880-new-k2-video-class-by-ostraining
getk2.org/documentation/k2class2012/item/880-new-k2-video-class-by-ostraining

CAN YOU SAY DUPLICATE CONTENT and DUPLICATE TITLE TAGS!!!! Come one dev's what are we doing wrong, K2 can't be this SEO horrible.

For the record, here's an idea of the issue I am having with URLs while using Joomla SEF settings.
The URL of a tag depends upon which page or category the tag is accessed from. All categories are mapped to the menu according to the category structure.

EXAMPLE TAG: "speed"

site.com/cars/camaro/itemlist/tag/speed
site.com/cars/mustang/itemlist/tag/speed

Another issue is the lack of a dash in the tag URL that results in "%20" for the blank space in a tag phrase.
/itemlist/tag/Arrive%20And%20Drive

Hi. You can try one of:

1. Create menu links to the tags.

2. Install SH404SEF or any other SEF extension.

Hey has the duplicate url issue discussed in the fist post (7 months ago) been resolved, because if it hasn't why is Admin telling us to get sh404sef ?

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.

It seems to me sh404sef developers blame k2, who blame Joomla in the meantime nothing changes, it seems the ball is squarely in k2's court, why not get together with anythingdigital to make & sell a plugin that works gets rid of this duplicate content problem once & for all instead of passing the buck.. The way i see it it's in every bodies best interest to get this sorted.