[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #1741: Resolve redundant URLs for SEO reasons

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#1741: Resolve redundant URLs for SEO reasons
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 Reporter:  Ezd                    |       Owner:  boonebgorges
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  major                  |   Milestone:  1.6
Component:  Core                   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion  |
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Changes (by nacin):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 I would tend to think that canonicalization should roll up. We don't
 standardize on /some-post/page-1/, we standardize on /some-post/.

 Likewise, http://profiles.wordpress.org/users/nacin/profile/ should not
 redirect to http://profiles.wordpress.org/users/nacin/profile/public/. I'm
 not particularly familiar with the internal routing of BuddyPress, but the
 redirect should be in the reverse. /settings/general/ should go to
 /settings/, not the other way around.

 And, assuming /users/nacin/ reflects the public profile, which means that
 /users/nacin/profile/ or /users/nacin/profile/public/ should redirect to
 /users/nacin/. "Ambiguous item URIs" are fine because we know what they
 should be on them. The most specific versions shouldn't be canonical in
 those cases.

 Am I making sense? Am I wrong?

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