Hi everyone!

We think that Artio JoomSEF is great component and we adore its support for Joomfish! However there is a HUGE issue for us and it is the generation of duplicate URLS, for example

content-item.htm
conten-item-2.htm

for the same content item, depending on the menu that was used to access the content item. I know there is an option to exclude the itemid in the SEF query but this messes up joomla functionality and the control of the modules.

We kindly ask anyone who has the solution for this problem to share it with us. This is a big problem from the view if SEs because it basically generates duplicate content all over our site.

Kind regards!

I had the same problem... the only solution i found is here :
forum.joomlafacile.com/showthread.php?t=...le+duplicate+content

this code for htacces works for me :

RewriteRule ^(.*)-([0-9]{1,2})\.html$ ton-url/$1.html [L,R=301]

it only send LR=301 for the pages with -2, -x, at the end , and redirect them...

hi zitoon!


Thank you very much for your response. I have also found the post you are referring to, but I was a little suspicious about the impact that line in htaccess would have on my site's performance. Have you tried this on your site? Does it have any negative impact on your site speed?

Thanx again for your response!!

Kind regards,
Zeljko

I wasn't able to get this to work, my knowledge of mod_rewrite isn't good enough. I included the following line in my .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^(.*)-([0-9]{1,2}).php$ parentinginholland.nl/$1.php [L,R=301]

Going to this page:
parentinginholland.nl/articles/baby-massage-2.php

Redirected to here:
parentinginholland.nl/index.php/baby-massage.php

So the category was replaced by the homepage. Any ideas what I should change ?

Also any idea why these duplicate URL entries are being created ? I also have them for content which is only available via one menu item, so am confused !

Hello,

for further information about the "duplicate" URLs, please check the FAQs and/or JoomSEF documentation.

http://www.artio.cz/en/product-faq/joomsef-faqs#faq4

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

Hi Jiří Veselý.

Thank you for your response.
I am aware that there are several options available to provide control over itemids in v1.4., but neither of them solves the duplicate url problem.



But, "Reappend source" does not solve anything. After you turn it on you get the following urls for the SAME content item:
yoursite.you/article.html&Itemid=xy
yoursite.you/article.html&Itemid=xz
so, it generates duplicate content again.

I know that some people must think that I put too much importance on this duplicate content thing, but since JoomSEF is search engine friendly component, I think that this issue must be addressed. I cannot think of anything more SE unfriendly duplicate content all over your site.

Kind regards,
Zeljko