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#1362 – selecting categories for display in K2 posts

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Wednesday, 11 November 2015 15:19 UTC

intown

I am setting up a site with K2 and sh404SEF.

Currently I have all my categories inside of a category called blog
Blog > Category 1
Blog > Category 2
Blog > Category 3

The URLs are showing as

xxx.com/blog/category-1/post-1
xxx.com/blog/category-1/post-2
xxx.com/blog/category-2/post-3

How do I get them to show as
xxx.com/category-1/post-1
xxx.com/category-1/post-2
xxx.com/category-2/post-3

or

xxx.com/post-1
xxx.com/post-2
xxx.com/post-3

Thanks! -- Steven

Wednesday, 11 November 2015 15:21 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

K2 is one of the extensions providing support for sh404SEF, not the other way around. It comes with a dedicated sh404SEF plugin for creating URLs, and has a section in its configuration for configuration URLs in general and some sh404SEF settings specifically.
That's where you want to look, we have no control ourselves on how K2 generates URLs for sh404SEF.

RGds

Wednesday, 11 November 2015 15:32 UTC

intown

Thanks so much for the quick reply.

As soon as I submitted the ticket, I thought I remembered the setting inside of K2.

Got everything worked out.
I think for this site I am going to go with no categories in the K2 URLs

http://xxxx.me/

Is there any compelling reason I should have at least the last category in the URL?

Thanks! -- Steven

Wednesday, 11 November 2015 16:11 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

It all depends on your web site and your SEO strategy. I fyou have multiple articles in the same category (and you picked a short and relevant title or alias for that category), then it may help search engines understand what's the general topic your article deals, and also that an article is part of that topic, meaning you are some kind of "authority" on the matter. It's all about small signals.

Sometimes it's good also to have categories because you want the category page to rank instead of the "articles". This happens for instance when articles come and go (news sites, ecommerce or catalogs where products can be discontinued,...)

One thing is for sure: once you've made up your mind, you don't change later!

Rgds

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