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#5886 – Strange URLs

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Monday, 08 July 2019 10:28 UTC
Diarmiud
Hello,
Google finds some strange URLs on my site, for example
https://www.xxxx.de/kunena/kritik-und-anregungen-zu-yoga-welten/120-persoehnliche-nachrichten.htm

But this is the right URL:
https://www.xxxx.de/yoga-einfuehrung/yoga-ueben.htm

There are a lot of examples for that. Is it a problem with kunena?

Best regards
Peter 
 
Monday, 08 July 2019 10:34 UTC
wb_weeblr
HI

1 - Is this URL:

kunena/kritik-und-anregungen-zu-yoga-welten/120-persoehnliche-nachrichten.htm

found in the sh404SEF SEF URL manager?

2 -What are your settings for Kunena under the "By component" tab of sh404SEF configuration?

Best regards


 
Monday, 08 July 2019 10:36 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi again,

Actually, those does not seem to be Kunena pages, they are not forums but just blogs/articles. Why do you mention kunena?

Finally, those 2 pages do not look like they are the same: they come from another menu item:

[xxxx]

[xxxx]

Best regards
 
Monday, 08 July 2019 11:45 UTC
Diarmiud
Hello,
I ask for kunena because there ist "kunena" in the URL:
https://www.xxxx.de/kunena/kritik-und-anregungen-zu-yoga-welten/120-persoehnliche-nachrichten.htm
The URL kunena/kritik-und-anregungen-zu-yoga-welten/120-persoehnliche-nachrichten.htm is not found in sh404sef.

I use Joomla-Router for kunena, because not all kunena-items worked in the past with sh404sef. See attachment.

Best regards
Peter
 
Monday, 08 July 2019 11:46 UTC
Diarmiud
Here are the attachments.

And: I didn't find an menu-item with "Yoga üben" or similar...
 
Monday, 08 July 2019 13:49 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

1 -
And: I didn't find an menu-item with "Yoga üben" or similar.
That's not a menu item, it's a Kunena discussion link I think. Currently, those links in the forum are similar to:

https://www.xxxx.de/forum/kritik-und-anregungen-zu-yoga-welten/1057-irgendwas-stimmt-mit-meinem-beitrag-nicht

So I think this URL is simply from an old discussion (id = 120) while current discussion ids are above 6000 (1057 in the above example). Now you are using the "Forum" menu item as a prefix, but it might have been different at some point some times ago.

I suspect Google found one of those bad or old URLs (might be before sh404SEF) and tested it but because you are using the Joomla router, the response is a valid page instead of a 404 and Google indexes this page.


2 -
I use Joomla-Router for kunena
If you use "Joomla router" for any component then it's expected to have this kind of consequence. Unfortunately, the Joomla router is very bad at detecting 404s and it will very often accepts and incorrectly route URLs that should be a 404 to another page (not just Kunena, any site with Joomla router basically). This causes a lot of duplicate content. sh404SEF can only fight that duplicate content but not if you disable it with "Use Joomla router".

because not all kunena-items worked in the past with sh404sef. See attachment.
That should not happen but can't comment without specific data. I would not recommend switching back to "Use default handler" now as some URLs may change and this can be negative if your forum pages are already indexed by Google.
The only reason to "Use Joomla router" with Kunena is if you have or expect to have a massive forum with tens or hundreds of thousands of posts and a lot of traffic: this might require a lot of CPU/MYSQL power from sh404SEF to handle this.

Best regards


 
Tuesday, 23 July 2019 05:34 UTC
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