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German Levi
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7 years 1 month ago #161006 by German Levi

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hi. there is a problem. the duplicate pages. site.com/category/category/sef-url and site.com/category/id and site.com/id. where id is the number of records in a mysql table. Joomla SEF and K2 is turn on. What to do with this problem?

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Krikor Boghossian
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7 years 1 month ago #161015 by Krikor Boghossian

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You can use a canonical link extension so all the links point to a single item.
Alternatively an SEO/SEF extension can provide redirects.

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7 years 1 month ago #161061 by Peter k

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Hi, you can fix this problem by fixing dynamic links in your website. More info fine this site.

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7 years 1 month ago #161085 by German Levi

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It's a work-related component? Where to find the plugin for canonical? It is paid?

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7 years 1 month ago #161086 by German Levi

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The problem is solved in the following way.

// custom redirect
if ( $this->item->link != JRequest::getURI() ) {
    $app = JFactory::getApplication();
    $app->redirect($this->item->link,true);
}

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7 years 4 weeks ago #161148 by Krikor Boghossian

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Kudos German :)
Although you can set this as a canonical link using Joomla!"s API in order to avoid a redirect.

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7 years 4 weeks ago #161169 by German Levi

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Krikor, not all search engines know about the canonical link.

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7 years 4 weeks ago #161184 by Krikor Boghossian

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Google does, Yahoo, Bing and Yandex do as well, so this is pretty much all of them.

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7 years 3 weeks ago #161263 by German Levi

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Realized I Krikor. However, I have a new problem. Duplicate pages with a slash at the end. Here's an example: site.com/category/alias and site.com/category/alias/ and site.com/category/alias// and these slashes can be many. These are all links work and give the exact same page. If I do a redirect from the page with the slash on the page without the slash in the htaccess file that stops working component of the review. There is a lot of redirects. This problem on many sites where there is K2 and enabled K2 SEF and Joomla. What to do?

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7 years 3 weeks ago #161270 by Krikor Boghossian

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Can you send me an example please?
Also you can use str_replace. Once more, I am a fan of canonical tags, they serve the same purpose without the need to redirect.

SEO-wise in all major search engines it is exactly the same thing.

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