I used K2 and joomla1.7 to create website.When i turned on SEF,it generated the urls as mysite.com/dir1/dir2/(dir3)/item/xxxx .There are 3 or 4 directory in urls with are not friendly for Search Engine. So I want to remove /item/ from urls.

For example:
nanadeals.com/accessories-apparel/jewelry/item/3-05ct-black-diamond-ropework-right-hand-ring-only-99-with-discount-code
to
nanadeals.com/accessories-apparel/jewelry/3-05ct-black-diamond-ropework-right-hand-ring-only-99-with-discount-code

BTW:I wouldn't like to use SEF extensions,they didn't run well at multilanguage website.

Could anyone tell me how to do?please help.
Many thanks!!

i m having the same problem, i want to remove "item" from URL. i tried sef404 but not helping.

I don't use any SEO component,I only use joomla seo,It seems very difficultly.Maybe I should rewrite sef PHP,does anybody know how to do?any suggestion is ok,many thanks

I also am new to K2 and wish to remove item and category from the path.
Google has indexed hundreds of my pages with www.domain/myarticle but since I have installed K2 and imported all my articles, they now have a path of www.domain/category/item/myarticle. This means all my listed pages in google or inbound links are now wrong, and also, I dont like it from an SEO point of view. How can I get back to my origional joomla 1.7.3 settings with seo

Can anyone tell me how to remove category and item from the path?

I believe this can be achieved by using SH404sef component, because there is a setting for it in K2 Parameters -> Advanced -> Under SEO

But SH404 doesn't work well in multi language website.Can I have another way to do SEF?

I wouldn't be able to advise on that, but if you want to rewrite the sef - ask in joomla forums, maybe they can help you better.

Thanks for the reply Kannan, but selecting the 'No Categories' in the dropdown or 'all categories' etc does not make any difference. Maybe its because I have stock joomla seo rewrite urls etc turned on, but I need that for all other none K2 modules to have correct paths.

I would appreciate anyone who can help remove category and item from my paths,
Oh and I forgot to say Ive notice and item number appearing before my articles alias title, that needs to be removed too..
It seems that quite a few people that have built sites and then installed K2 are having this problem without any solution..

i have the same problem.
wanna remove /item from url but don't know how.
any help would be appreciated
thanks a lot.

did anyone find a solution?

After a lot of searching, this has been an issue for a few years.. With NO stock solution or inbuilt solution within K2, it just seems crazy to me to change the address of every single article on you site.

The only solution is to use a commercial SEF component, but that just means if there is a component then it can be done, so why hasnt K2 done it, or provide an option..

I'm less and less inclined to use K2 for my main site until they have resolved this and I think its a main stumbling block for owners of established Joomla sites to convert to K2.

solution is found?

up this them!

I don't want to believe that only option for normal URL rewrite is a paid component.
After all that is something that all other CMS provide for free.
And Joomla itself does this great.

Maybe some htaccess guru can figure out what to write in .htaccess ? If I'm not mistaken URL rewrite function just adds some lines to .htaccess anyway.

I have no problem paying for extra things, I have bought several extensions from Joomla works alone, but URL rewrite doesn't seem a thing I should pay for.