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4 years 8 months ago #177156 by Patrick Valmont

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Hello K2 friends, hope you are well.

I noticed that on one of my websites using K2, K2 is sending user info to google. Meaning, if I search the user name ( the Joomla user) on google I get all the articles posted by this user. Including images etc. Is there a way to disable the feature ? I've tried looking in the configuration of k2 but no avail.

Thanks to advise.

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4 years 8 months ago #177160 by JoomlaWorks

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Isn't K2's SEO awesome? :)

This is actually coming from K2's Structured Data. You can disable them in K2's Settings (SEO tab).

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4 years 8 months ago #177161 by Patrick Valmont

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Fotis wrote: Isn't K2's SEO awesome? :)

This is actually coming from K2's Structured Data. You can disable them in K2's Settings (SEO tab).

Hello Fotis, thank you for the reply. I had a look, but not sure which is which. See attached what i have in SEO and advance SEO

Thanks to advise

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4 years 8 months ago #177162 by JoomlaWorks

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Google Structured Data :)

jmp.sh/DpyjdEQ

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4 years 8 months ago #177165 by Patrick Valmont

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Fotis wrote: Google Structured Data :)

jmp.sh/DpyjdEQ

Hello Fotis, unfotunately, I do not have this setting in my k2. I assume this is in a newer version yes ?

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4 years 8 months ago #177177 by JoomlaWorks

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What version are you using?

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4 years 8 months ago #177179 by Patrick Valmont

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Hi Fotis,

It's 2.9.0.
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4 years 8 months ago #177184 by JoomlaWorks

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Locate any rel="author" HTML attribute in your K2 template overrides (or override K2 if you haven't already and then remove that code). This is what correlates a given user to their items and what Google indexes.

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4 years 8 months ago #177187 by Patrick Valmont

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Hellooooo Fotis,

Think I found the entry in "item.php" which was indeed an override in my template. (hope it does not break anything haha)

Thanks for this. Will check other files as well if they contain same.

Cheers buddy!

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4 years 8 months ago #177206 by JoomlaWorks

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You're welcome.

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4 years 6 months ago #177595 by Patrick Valmont

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Hello Fotis,

I am back. lol.

Unfortunately this fix does not work. I am on the verge of giving up and switching back to Joomla, but the amount of work we have put into k2 makes me revisit this thread. Can you advise further ?

The user is still being indexed on Google. Thanks!

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4 years 6 months ago #177630 by JoomlaWorks

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I need to see an actual URL. There may be other traces back to the user profile.

By the way, "on the verge of giving up and switching back to Joomla" means you haven't recently worked with com_content, its settings and its "glorious" performance.

K2 is free, not advertising it here, just saving you precious time. I guess someone chose K2 in the first place for a reason.

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4 years 6 months ago #177669 by Patrick Valmont

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Hi Fotis,

I chose K2 for my project because it's powerful over com_content when we started the project and easier, (also cause I used it on past sites) but such a minor issue like this has unfortunately, put a brick wall on my site. Therefore, I had to switch back to content and use extra fields to sort out. Thanks for the patience and support though, I very much appreciate it.

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4 years 6 months ago #177672 by JoomlaWorks

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Well, it's your site and your time :)

Good luck.

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