Hello,
I have a strange issue with K2 sef url and Google Search Console.
I will try to explain.

Joomla: 3.9.18 (with Search Engine Friendly URLs + Use URL Rewriting)
K2: 2.10.3 (with Enable custom SEF settings for K2 URLs enabled)


I have Joomla site with some K2 articles representing products, organized in k2 categories.

Here part of the K2 categories structure:
Catalogues
--- Furniture

---

Furn01

---

Furn02
--- Electrical Tools

---

ETools01

---

ETools02
Ambienti
Promozioni

Inside Furn01, Furn02, ETools01, ETools02, Ambienti and Promozioni then I have K2 articles


Then, here the menus:
MENU_CATEGORIES_FURNITURE:
Furn01
Furn02
...

MENU CATEGORIES_ETOOLS:
ETools01
ETools02
...


MENU_PRODUCTS:
Furniture (Menu item type = Menu heading)
--- Furn01 (Menu item type = Menu item alias)

---

Prod01 (Menu item type = item)

---

Prod02 (Menu item type = item)
--- Furn02 (Menu item type = Menu item alias)

---

Prod03 (Menu item type = item)
Electrical Tools (Menu item type = Menu heading)
--- ETools01 (Menu item type = Menu item alias)

---

Prod04 (Menu item type = item)

---

Prod05 (Menu item type = item)

---

Prod06 (Menu item type = item)
--- ETools02 (Menu item type = Menu item alias)

---

Prod07 (Menu item type = item)


All tat said, now the sef url behaviour:
In search console I noticed in the report that shows all the url discovered and indexed by the crawler that I have these ones:
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod05
the previous ones are corrects and I understand how it is building them.

But the following ones are very strange; I don't understand why it is finding also these ones:

mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/ambiente-001 (where ambiente-001 is a K2 article in the category "Ambienti")
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/ambiente-002 (where ambiente-002 is a K2 article in the category "Ambienti")
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/ambiente-003 (where ambiente-003 is a K2 article in the category "Ambienti")
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/promozione-001 (where promozione-001 is a K2 article in the category "Promozioni")
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/autore/49-myauthor?start=70
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/categoria/ambienti

How can fix them and avoid it find also these ones?


Kind regards,
Matteo

Hello,
I replied here the original post because I had an issue formatting the text.


I have a strange issue with K2 sef url and Google Search Console.
I will try to explain.

Joomla: 3.9.18 (with Search Engine Friendly URLs + Use URL Rewriting)
K2: 2.10.3 (with Enable custom SEF settings for K2 URLs enabled)


I have Joomla site with some K2 articles representing products, organized in k2 categories.

Here part of the K2 categories structure:
Catalogues
--- Furniture
--- >>> Furn01
--- >>> Furn02
--- Electrical Tools
--- >>> ETools01
--- >>> ETools02
Ambienti
Promozioni

Inside Furn01, Furn02, ETools01, ETools02, Ambienti and Promozioni then I have K2 articles


Then, here the menus:
MENU_CATEGORIES_FURNITURE:
Furn01
Furn02
...

MENU CATEGORIES_ETOOLS:
ETools01
ETools02
...


MENU_PRODUCTS:
Furniture (Menu item type = Menu heading)
--- Furn01 (Menu item type = Menu item alias)
--- >>> Prod01 (Menu item type = item)
--- >>> Prod02 (Menu item type = item)
--- Furn02 (Menu item type = Menu item alias)
--- >>> Prod03 (Menu item type = item)
Electrical Tools (Menu item type = Menu heading)
--- ETools01 (Menu item type = Menu item alias)
--- >>> Prod04 (Menu item type = item)
--- >>> Prod05 (Menu item type = item)
--- >>> Prod06 (Menu item type = item)
--- ETools02 (Menu item type = Menu item alias)
--- >>> Prod07 (Menu item type = item)


All tat said, now the sef url behaviour:
In search console I noticed in the report that shows all the url discovered and indexed by the crawler that I have these ones:
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod05
the previous ones are corrects and I understand how it is building them.

But the following ones are very strange; I don't understand why it is finding also these ones:

mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/ambiente-001 (where ambiente-001 is a K2 article in the category "Ambienti")
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/ambiente-002 (where ambiente-002 is a K2 article in the category "Ambienti")
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/ambiente-003 (where ambiente-003 is a K2 article in the category "Ambienti")
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/promozione-001 (where promozione-001 is a K2 article in the category "Promozioni")
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/autore/49-myauthor?start=70
mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/categoria/ambienti

How can fix them and avoid it find also these ones?

Hello Fotis,
I substituded the 2.10.2 file as you suggested.

Anyway if I try to browse to some of the "strange" urls, for example:
- mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/categoria/ambienti
- mydomain.it/it/Electrical Tools/ETools01/Prod04/ambiente-001
it does not give me an error 404, instead it shows a page, obviously with some layout errors.

I imagined it would have sent me error 404; why that urls are again considered valid?

kind regards,
matteo

Hello Fotis,
I purged all Joomla cache; I also cleared cache at Siteground account and also purged all the cached files in browser.

Even after these operation, if I browse to one of the strange urls, it does not respond me with error 404; instead it shows a page.

Any idea?
Where can I check k2 routing rules?
What can I check to start understanding why it is generating such strange urls?

Kind regards,
Matteo

Hello Fotis,
disabling Advanced SEF in K2 worked fine.
Now if I try to browse to a strange url, it gives me error 404.

The other url works fine.

Thanks a lot,
Matteo