Comments on: WordPress, Canonical, and html: The Saga Continues http://www.christopherprice.net/wordpress-canonical-urls-and-html-the-saga-continues-172.html Christopher Price tackles the rest of tech. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:01:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher Pricehttp://www.christopherprice.net/wordpress-canonical-urls-and-html-the-saga-continues-172.html/comment-page-1#comment-542 Christopher Price Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:14:45 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/wordpress-canonically-and-html-the-saga-continues-172.html#comment-542 I've seen it on search engines other than Google in the past. Google remedied this with BigDaddy technology, like I said above. Of course, the best SEO position is one that doesn't just take the big three (Yahoo, Live, and Google) into account... but it's a minor concern. The only problem would be if a bunch of big sites (Slashdot, digg, etc) picked up on the #comments link, and other sites (say, national media) started hitting the non-linked version. That could cause a PageRank split on engines other than Google. I’ve seen it on search engines other than Google in the past. Google remedied this with BigDaddy technology, like I said above. Of course, the best SEO position is one that doesn’t just take the big three (Yahoo, Live, and Google) into account… but it’s a minor concern.

The only problem would be if a bunch of big sites (Slashdot, digg, etc) picked up on the #comments link, and other sites (say, national media) started hitting the non-linked version. That could cause a PageRank split on engines other than Google.

]]> By: Techblissonline Dot Comhttp://www.christopherprice.net/wordpress-canonical-urls-and-html-the-saga-continues-172.html/comment-page-1#comment-541 Techblissonline Dot Com Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:46:04 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/wordpress-canonically-and-html-the-saga-continues-172.html#comment-541 I am not sure on what you mean by search engines seeing .html and .html#comments as different urls...Do you find both getting indexed in webmaster tools...i don't think search engines will treat them as different... # is meant to name a location on a webpage...Search engines would not consider them as different... I am not sure on what you mean by search engines seeing .html and .html#comments as different urls…Do you find both getting indexed in webmaster tools…i don’t think search engines will treat them as different… # is meant to name a location on a webpage…Search engines would not consider them as different…

]]> By: Christopher Pricehttp://www.christopherprice.net/wordpress-canonical-urls-and-html-the-saga-continues-172.html/comment-page-1#comment-526 Christopher Price Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:18:34 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/wordpress-canonically-and-html-the-saga-continues-172.html#comment-526 If they don't, it's a plugin bug. If they're tapping the internal array properly in WordPress 2.X, those bugs shouldn't surface after version 2.2.2... array bugs regarding .html should have been fixed in 2.3. Probably the easiest workaround if you run into those issues is to form such pages as, well, pages... page structure is not affected by standard permalink changes (though if you go under-the-hood, you can change them)... only posts are affected. I wouldn't say it's not a concern, but it's a minor one and could probably be fixed easily in most offending plugins. If they don’t, it’s a plugin bug. If they’re tapping the internal array properly in WordPress 2.X, those bugs shouldn’t surface after version 2.2.2… array bugs regarding .html should have been fixed in 2.3.

Probably the easiest workaround if you run into those issues is to form such pages as, well, pages… page structure is not affected by standard permalink changes (though if you go under-the-hood, you can change them)… only posts are affected.

I wouldn’t say it’s not a concern, but it’s a minor one and could probably be fixed easily in most offending plugins.

]]> By: harknellhttp://www.christopherprice.net/wordpress-canonical-urls-and-html-the-saga-continues-172.html/comment-page-1#comment-523 harknell Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:07:00 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/wordpress-canonically-and-html-the-saga-continues-172.html#comment-523 One issue you *may* run into with adding .html onto the end of your permalinks with Wordpress is some plugins may not work correctly. Specifically image galleries and other things that create their own internal multi-pages that are separate from Wordpress's pages (such as a gallery split across internal pagination). I'm not sure it won't work correctly, but I've seen reports on the support site for Wordpress about problems that occurred due to the .html getting in the way of things. (I guess I should eventually check that with my own Image Gallery plugin AWSOM Pixgallery) One issue you *may* run into with adding .html onto the end of your permalinks with WordPress is some plugins may not work correctly. Specifically image galleries and other things that create their own internal multi-pages that are separate from WordPress’s pages (such as a gallery split across internal pagination). I’m not sure it won’t work correctly, but I’ve seen reports on the support site for WordPress about problems that occurred due to the .html getting in the way of things. (I guess I should eventually check that with my own Image Gallery plugin AWSOM Pixgallery)

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