#6417 – We have a solution to the problem of duplicated urls

Hi,
One of the problems with SH404 sef url come from duplicated urls.
As you know when a link hasn't any menu Itemid in the url because it was called at first by a link contained in a search result or by a banner or anything else, we gets a duplicated url. of course we can manage duplicated urls by backend but it is time spending when dealing with a lot of articles.
Our solution:
You can create a form accessible from backend where user can join joomla categories with menu id so when an article has not menu id the system can associates it to the given one.
We tested this system succesfully on our Ohanah SH404 plugin hardcoding our associative array, now would be usefull having a form in backend also for joomla articles.

By
Luc

Hi,
"consolidate multitple URLs due to multiple/random Itemid into one single SEF URL, which is exactly what sh404SEF is doing best"
yes, you are right, the problem we are experiencing adding many article at a day and having more than 5.000 hits/day is that once an article is added it gets the id of the first clicked link. Often the first clicked link doesn't comes from a menu but from an RSS feed, so the default url becomes a wrong ones. As result we have to have a resource engaged in searching and checking all new articles to set the right url from backend panel.