I got these "?print=1&tmpl=component" at the end of my links and Google is complaining about duplicate meta description.

Actually it is not Google advices that is worrying me, but fact that when someone is finding my site thru Google, Google leads them to that ugly print page. It is not very professional.

Is there a way to ad "nofollow" for print, etc? Everything except clean article. To make it simple, i want Google to leads (and index) visitors only to real article, not to print page. It is really ugly and not professional.

(Will put it under "bugs". It is something to be considered)

Is there anyone to answer this, please? It is important. Developers say that "print" has nofollow and noindex, but obviously it is not the case. Google is indexing that ugly print page.

Hi. If you want to add nofollow to rel attribute you can do it in your template files. Of course this will break the modal so you have to use a classic js popup (or a different modal, it's up to you).

Man, if i only knew what you are talking about. Will try to pay my good friend Google to find out. Thank you anyway.

register in google webmaster tools and add the variable print into those who are ignored.

You don't need to hack the core files of K2 for this.

Just put this in your robots.txt file:

Disallow: /*/item/*.html?tmpl=component&print=1

I have added this to my robots.txt file.  However, when I right click the print button and select open link in new window, then I view the page source I still have the following in my source code. 

 


meta name="robots" content="index, follow"

Does this mean that this page is still being indexed? I have also tried hard-coding a rel="nofollow" in item.php print url, but it does the same thing.
B_Dark said:

You don't need to hack the core files of K2 for this.

Just put this in your robots.txt file:

Disallow: /*/item/*.html?tmpl=component&print=1

It is fixed in 2.5 SVN.

I'm using K2 v2.6.2 on Joomla! 2.5.8 and still have the duplicate issue per GWT.

modernmagic wrote: I'm using K2 v2.6.2 on Joomla! 2.5.8 and still have the duplicate issue per GWT.

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Open a free Google Webmaster Tool acount and remove those things there from Google Index and Cache.