[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8948: permalink redirection is too liberal

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#8948: permalink redirection is too liberal
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 Reporter:  mrmist        |       Owner:  markjaquith            
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new                    
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Future Release         
Component:  Canonical     |     Version:  2.7                    
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  needs-patch 2nd-opinion
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Comment(by Otto42):

 Replying to [comment:15 hakre]:
 > +1 for taking care. If we led the SEO-Kids know about this feature, that
 would start a hell of a fire. Redirect poisioning of WP based sites,
 outch.

 It's worth noting that these redirects that are created by canonical
 redirection are 301s, so the redirection is permanent.

 Fixing SEO problems was the whole point of this sort of thing. A 301
 redirect from a URL is treated as the redirected, final, URL by search
 engines. Not as the original one.

 So somebody having a cut-off URL posted not only goes to the right place,
 but also makes Google take notice and not count that cut-off as a separate
 URL.

 Whether the code is redirecting unnecessarily or not is up for debate, but
 SEO-problems are not a valid reason to change this, because SEO-problems
 are the reason it was added in the first place.

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