I got these "?print=1&tmpl=component" at the end of my links and Google is complaining about duplicate meta description.

Actually it is not Google advices that is worrying me, but fact that when someone is finding my site thru Google, Google leads them to that ugly print page. It is not very professional.

Is there a way to ad "nofollow" for print, etc? Everything except clean article. To make it simple, i want Google to leads (and index) visitors only to real article, not to print page. It is really ugly and not professional.

(Will put it under "bugs". It is something to be considered)

Is there anyone to answer this, please? It is important. Developers say that "print" has nofollow and noindex, but obviously it is not the case. Google is indexing that ugly print page.

Hi. If you want to add nofollow to rel attribute you can do it in your template files. Of course this will break the modal so you have to use a classic js popup (or a different modal, it's up to you).

Man, if i only knew what you are talking about. Will try to pay my good friend Google to find out. Thank you anyway.

register in google webmaster tools and add the variable print into those who are ignored.

You don't need to hack the core files of K2 for this.

Just put this in your robots.txt file:

Disallow: /*/item/*.html?tmpl=component&print=1

I have added this to my robots.txt file.  However, when I right click the print button and select open link in new window, then I view the page source I still have the following in my source code. 

 


meta name="robots" content="index, follow"

Does this mean that this page is still being indexed? I have also tried hard-coding a rel="nofollow" in item.php print url, but it does the same thing.
B_Dark said:

You don't need to hack the core files of K2 for this.

Just put this in your robots.txt file:

Disallow: /*/item/*.html?tmpl=component&print=1

It is fixed in 2.5 SVN.

I'm using K2 v2.6.2 on Joomla! 2.5.8 and still have the duplicate issue per GWT.

modernmagic wrote: I'm using K2 v2.6.2 on Joomla! 2.5.8 and still have the duplicate issue per GWT.

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Open a free Google Webmaster Tool acount and remove those things there from Google Index and Cache.

I have a GWT account, hence how I knew there was an issue.

I will submit the 217 duplicate urls for removal. Wish there was another way....

I did also add this to the robot.txt:

Disallow */itemlist/tag/*
Disallow: /*/item/*.html?tmpl=component&print=1

There is another faster way. Dont know it now by heart. Put "print" in list of forbidden words in URLs for Index. And all will be removed very soon, no new will be added.

Just chose .html?tmpl or &print=, to be sure your normal Items with word "print" in alias dont get removed. Narrow it as much as possible.

1. When I submit .html?tmpl to GWT to REMOVE URL's I get this:

www.primocraft.com/.html?tmpl

Is that right?


2. And same question for .html?ml=1

Sorry, didnt read forum for long time. I don know where you put it. But it works for sure.

Configuration --> URL Parameters->Add parameter
There i have simply "print" and "tmpl" (option No URL), besides many more not important here.

All URL with these words wont be in Google Index and Cache. (you will have other URLs in Index, dont worry)
I have it so simply because i know i dont have any item (or Menu item) with alias "print" and "tmpl" in URL.

Do it on your own responsibility.