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#65 – K2 Search generates duplicate sef urls

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Tuesday, 14 April 2015 05:09 UTC

frank

Hello,

I do run a Joomla 3.4.1 site with K2 2.6.9. I do have 2 menu items - one is called "Menu A" which is showing K2 items of category 4 and "Menu B" which is showing only items of category 10.

Within these two different Menus I do show a K2 tools module "Search box" the one is searching within category 4 and the other one in category 10. This works fine.

Now with SH404SEF which is new on our system we do having the following problem:

If I search in category 4 I do get the correct search results and the sef url which gets shown is index.php/search?searchword=tech&categories=4 and the correct joomla menu item (itemid=60) is highlighted

If I do search in category for I also getting the correct search results and the sef url which gets shown is index.php/search?searchword=tech&categories=10

The problem is that now the menu item with itemid=60 gets highlighted and not the correct one which would be itemid=137.

Making a long sentence short: I do have duplicate sef urls if I use the K2 search. How can I avoid this? I still want to keep SH404SEF for K2 sef url handling.

Thanks
Frank

Tuesday, 14 April 2015 08:28 UTC

wb_weeblr

I do have duplicate sef urls if I use the K2 search

Well, no. You have the opposite, you have URL for (what you consider in that case) different content.
Because they are for the same function (search), I assume the K2 developers (who did the URL plugin for sh404SEF) choose to not include the category in the URL, and so the same /search url is used regardless of the category.

If you only have one or a few menu items with this problem, I would suggest that the simplest fix is to manually customize the urls to make them distinct.
For instance, /search/category-a and /search/category-b

That's done in the URL manager, by finding the /search URL and modifying it, then doing the same for the reamining /search URL

Rgds

Wednesday, 15 April 2015 05:05 UTC

frank

Thanks. That sounds like a solution. I will close the ticket...

Anyway is there a way in sh404sef that duplicate entries for one and the same sef url are not generated but a new sef url with a postfix like url-dp1, url-dp2? AceSEF is doing is for example.

Wednesday, 15 April 2015 07:15 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

No, there is no such option. If you want that, just don't enable sh404SEF for that extension. That's what Joomla SEF is doing: different URLs for same content, and that's what's wrong with it.
In addition, adding a numerical suffix is just a terrible thing to do from a semantic and SEO standpoint. Please have a look at https://weeblr.com/joomla-seo-analytics-security/seo-oriented-urls, especially the link to the MOZ.com article at the bottom.

Rgds

Monday, 20 April 2015 07:23 UTC

frank

OK. Thanks for clarification...

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