I have found an unwanted link to some content on my website in a Google search. The link is:

https://[BANKED UNUSED DOMAIN]/index.php/component/k2/itemlist/user/[SUPER USER ID AND NAME]?start=60

It has used a domain I own but has never been used but diverts to our server root public_html. The user name and ID is mine.

I have read a number of search results for K2/itemlist/user but none have a solution that answers how to remove or disable this link. Google won't remove it because the items are still current and published on the proper website.

I have been through all Menu items (including Trashed and unpublished), modules and plugins but can't find any that would support this link.

I have checked all the categories for the items displayed and all have Author and Voting hidden, but accessing them through this link shows Author name and Voting link in K2 items regardless.

Any ideas on how to disable this link?

Thanks

You can either use K2's advanced sef functionality or better yet if you are using a few users you can map these users into a K2 User menu item.

Sorry, I don't understand your reply. Perhaps I wasn't clear about the issue.

Somehow Google is showing a link to some of my website content linked to me as the User. It is also using a parked domain, which auto diverts to our live domain. The link is using a K2 Item List reference that doesn't exist in any menu item (published, hidden or trashed).

So the question is how has the link "/index.php/component/k2/itemlist/user/[SUPER USER ID AND NAME]?start=60" been generated? How do I prevent it being used and block it?

By default all of Joomla!'s URLs can be hacked eg: ?
option=com_content&view=xx&id=xx will produce results.

This means that if a (default) link is exposed by mistake then it can be picked by Google.

You can easily solve this issue either by setting redirects or by using a canonical link extension which supports K2.

Hello Krikor,
We have also been notified by a customer that Google is picking up and indexing these types of pages. We use K2 a lot on all our builds and I did a quick search and it seems like this is happening to a lot of our websites. Can I get you to show me in more detail how this is occurring and how we can combat this? The above explanation does not make sence to me. Thank you for your help!! I can PM you the links we are talking about if you need to see them in the real world.
Thank you!!

Good afternoon, Fotis!
I write to the English community because there was no Greek.
I have the same problem!
K2 creates an unbelievably large number with url when the user elements are present in the articles.

an example

assuming we have a news website with 10 categories and each category has 200 articles
The effect we will present is over to 50.000 url with author/name?start=

All pages are traceable to Google. so that the articles on the site do not appear in the search results
I don't really know what to do to fix it

Ευχαριστώ Φώτη!
Είναι σίγουρα μια λύση.
Όμως υπάρχουν αρκετά προβλήματα SEO στο Κ2. Θέλω να πιστεύω ότι στις επόμενες εκδόσεις θα λυθούν.
Εύχομαι πραγματικά να ξαναγίνει το Κ2 αναντικατάστατο εργαλείο για κάθε joomla website