ZenTools2 generates wrong URLs for some time now

scarney

Basically all of the Titles within the Menu and submenu pages which are creating correct urls based on the primary category.

The links in the ZenTools2 module are building wrong urls.

scarney

I hope it won't take a month to get somebody to help with this.

scarney

Here are two pictures which I hope will be worth a thousand words:

saguaros

scarney

Hi Sean,

Actually, it still redirects to the correct page of that EasyBlog post but you're right, there is something wrong with the generated URL. Let me check with our developer and will get back to you.

scarney

I wanted to let you know that my urls are slightly different now in that I have changed to completely menu driven urls. They are much more search engine friendly. This does not change the problem.

My big decision right now is whether I need to turn off all of these ZenTools2 modules which are creating the duplicate urls. I know this will hurt us for search engine optimization.

Sean

saguaros

Hi Sean,

I understand, let's wait for the news from JA developer

scarney

I hope the developer can look at this soon. :-)

scarney

Do I need to purchase another level of membership in order to have my tickets dealt with?

This problem may not be be big to you but it is really messing up our web site by creating tons of duplicate URLs that are being indexed by search engines.

Please help.

saguaros

scarney
Hi Sean,

You will not need another membership as this issue is confirmed and already lined up in our bug tracking system. I will let us know when having news from the team.

Appreciate for your patience on this!

scarney

Every day Google is reporting hundreds of more broken URLs giving 404 errors. They are being created by the ZenTools2 modules linking to EasyBlog items. OUCH.

saguaros

scarney

Hi,

Try to take a backup of this file: [root]/modules/mod_zentools2/includes/easyblog_posts.php

and update with attached file (unzip first)

easyblog-postsphp.zip

5kB

scarney

saguaros So far so good. It seems to have fixed the problem. Now to figure out how to get Google to forget about the hundreds of urls that were temporarily generated. :-)

I am sure happy to have this resolved. I will let you know if I run into any issues.

Sean

scarney

Good news. Google allows us to submit URLs to be removed. It is time-consuming. But it is possible.

Now I should have squeaky clean beautiful URLs.

saguaros

Glad to hear that it works now!

Have a nice day!!!