Hi,

I'm using:
K2 2.6.6
Joomla 3.1.1
Filter For K2 1.3.3 (styleware.eu/store/item/52-filter-for-k2)
Link: plx3.fusionnetwork.net/produse-naturale-originale/ginkgophyt

I have noticed that canonical url for items is nor right. It has twice the item alias. I have tried with "Enable advanced SEF for K2 URLs" on or off and no change.

Any ideas why?

Thanks

Regards,
Cosmin

Hello Cosmin,

K2 does not generate the canonical tag, there must another extension generating this tag.

Hi Krikor,

Canonical url is generated by joomla 3.
I have tried on another test site of mine and the same issue appears
3.fusionnetwork.net/k2-test-category/item/1-test-item-1

I don't know where is the bug... Joomla or K2

Thanks

Hi,

Response from Joomla issue tracker

"You are describing a problem in K2 and not Joomla so you should really speak to the makers of K2 about this. getk2.org"

Please check this issue.

Thanks

Krikor Boghossian wrote: Hello Cosmin,

K2 does not generate the canonical tag, there must another extension generating this tag.

I've tested on a fresh install Joomla! 3.1.1 and K2 2.6.6 and results in the same issue. Canonical url for k2 items is not correct. It duplicates the item id and alias at the end of the url.

Considering that canonical tag can do a lot of good but also a lot of damage to a site if it is not used properly, I think is a high priority issue.

Thanks

Regards
Cosmin

I have same problem. Facebook plugins pick K2 category name , instead of K2 title, because of this problem.

As soon as i put my URL in this Facebook debugger, Facebook plugin starts to pick K2 title. Despite it is still double alias in canonical URL.

developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

Debug show canonical url with only one alias, link at bottom (source view in debug) shows 2 aliases in canonical url.

Is it normal behavior ? How will Google index those URLs with double canonical aliases ?

No, it seems this cannot be normal. Warning in debugger:

Mismatch og:url and canonical url: og:url tag in the header is not the same URL as rel='canonical' link in the html.

Most strange is that i can access my K2 Item without problem even with double alias, as with only one.

www.some.com/some/408-some-alias-at-the-end-of-the-url/408-some-alias-at-the-end-of-the-url

What is happening here ?

I have unfortunately the same problem. ((

Is there any solution for this issue? without properly working canonical it's quite unreliable to use it for seo stuff....

I'm having the same problem. Canonical link is duplicating the alias for me.

I read other posts about avoiding duplicate menu items or sub categories but I don't have any of that. I just have one menu item called blog that points to one category and still articles in that category have canonical links with duplicate aliases. Also tried upgrading to the latest and using the advanced sef parameter to on. That didn't help.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix without buying a separate plugin to mask the problem.