I am using k2 and sh404sef on www.primocraft.com

 

In Google Webmaster Tools, I am seeing crawl errors for www primocraft com/tag/Oxford.html?ml=1

 

The sh404sef url is www.primocraft.com/tag/Oxford

 

QUESTIONS:

1. What is ?ml=1



2. What is going wrong between k2 and sh404sef that  /tag/Oxford.html?ml=1 doesn't redirect to /tag/Oxford for google's crawling bots?  



3. Why is /tag/Oxford.html?ml=1 being crawled if the source code shows: 

<ul class="itemTags"> <li><a href="/tag/oxford">oxford</a></li>
</ul>

 

4. What is the best way to fix the errors?  

a. Should I use a RewriteCond in my .htaccess ?

1. Should I add it to the core joomla sef section of my .htaccess ?

i) ########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section #
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|\.ini|\.zip|\.json|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php [L]
#

 

 

I gave up and decided to allow sh404sef add .html as a suffix to all urls.

 

Now www.primocraft.com/tag/Oxford.html?ml=1  automatically goes to www.primocraft.com/tag/Oxford.html without any errors.

 

 

From my experience, make sure to put .html in sh404sef configuration.  Since I did, I have drastically reduced my 404 errors to just a few old ones from google's index.

 

www.primocraft.com is now 99% K2! 

The custom 404 error page is the only joomla article.