[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11856: URL for 1st comments page is not canonical

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#11856: URL for 1st comments page is not canonical
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 Reporter:  sirzooro                       |       Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  defect (bug)                   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                         |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Canonical                      |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  major                          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch reporter-feedback  |
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Changes (by archon810):

 * keywords:  needs-patch, reporter-feedback => needs-patch reporter-
               feedback
 * severity:  normal => major


Comment:

 Can this be revisited?

 /comment-page-1 is extraneous and bad for SEO due to duplicate content for
 situations where the total number of comments is < 1 page (new replies are
 automatically redirected to /comment-page-1 instead of the canonical url).

 For the case when the total number of comments is > the per-page one,
 either comment-page-1 or comment-page-LASTNUM is superfluous, depending on
 the sort order.

 http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/wordpress-duplicate-content describes this
 problem (canonical works well in the latest WP, but search engines may not
 care about canonical when spidering as evident by an example in the link).

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