Hello guys,

I have a big issues with my website regarding K2 component.
(Im using k2 latest version + joomla + sh404 sef)

And since the upgrade on feb. i have enormous 500 google server error links that keep increasing and impact negatively my SEO?

See the image to see the issues:


website in trouble: xtremillusion.com

please give me your hand on this as i do not know what to do ?

Thank you

anyone have this issues?

I m using latest Joomla + K2 + SH404sef?

please help me cheers

Hello Julien,

From what I can see from your screenshot the bot tries to add a ?format=feed to all your links.
Try disallowing the crawling of urls with a query string from your robots.txt since you already have SEF enabled.

Regards

Hello and thank you what do i have to put on the robot.txt?
is that k2 which is doing that? as all my 500 error are coming from k2?
thank you for your answers and support

Being no expert in SEO I just used Disallow: /*?* and I saw a decrease on my 500 errors.

The problem does not lie with K2, the googlebot if you do not block it and use a sitemap.xml,
will try to index every possible page.

Krikor Boghossian wrote: Being no expert in SEO I just used Disallow: /*?* and I saw a decrease on my 500 errors.

The problem does not lie with K2, the googlebot if you do not block it and use a sitemap.xml,
will try to index every possible page.

Hello and thank you for your answer

You seems to be a better expert than me,

could you please explain me the exact procedure in order to disallow the files in the robot.txt

what should i write on the robot.txt?

the issue is I m using a sitemap so maybe the issue is with my sitemap?

no?
im using XMAP

thank you for your kind reply

im happy you are here i was desperate to see all this 500 errors

Just add

to your robots.txt file located on the public_html folder.

I don't think XMAP has anything to do with this since it only renders items mapped from menus.

Happy to be of assistance.

so what do you think cause all those 500 errors? K2? rss in k2? tag system in k2?

Im a bit lost?

ias adding this to the robot file wont penalize my other component?

sorry for all those noobs questions :)

Since you have SEF enabled and the SH404sef installed I really doubt that you will encounter any link that contains query strings apart from your RSS or ATOM feeds... so no penalty here :)

As far as the issue, I would double check the SH404sef 's component settings.

Thank you

Which setting in SH404 sef should i look into?

What is strange is before February i did not have any issues...