I remember from older editions that a category and its secondary categories (aliesed into function) had the same id. Now they have different ids and I don't think it is a good idea for SEO. Same thing with aliased links, different ids for the same content. Wouldn't be good to share same ids?
If it shared ids, your navigation would always be messed up -- when you entered the category it wouldn't show the navigation for the proper parent, but rather for the original categories parent. And the same goes for links with for link details and comments pages. As for SEO, that's not my area so I don't know. My impression though is that if there were any slight difference it would only be when pages are exactly identical, and the different navigations make the pages distinct, thus it might improve your SEO standing by getting extra pages indexed.
99.9% same = distinct. Countless legitimate pages are 99.9% the same as other pages. I certainly am not going to believe a search engine would decline to index it on the basis of indistinctness unless you can prove it.
Anyhow, if you really want a bug that badly you'll have to downgrade to a version that had the bug.
Paul, it is not about beeing indexed or not by search engines. Would you make 1000 copies of a same page with different navigation lines just for the purpose of having more pages indexed? No, this is not the point. It is about having unique content on a unique page with as many backward links to it.
Yes, the bug fix was about making it be unique content on a unique page so as not to misrepresent your site structure, but you're complaining about it. If you have some odd belief that it's better to misrepresent your site, then as I said, downgrade. Or perhaps you don't really want to be using an alias in the first place, and what you were looking for was the related categories option. Regardless, that's all I have to say on the matter.
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I remember from older editions that a category and its secondary categories (aliesed into function) had the same id. Now they have different ids and I don't think it is a good idea for SEO. Same thing with aliased links, different ids for the same content.
Wouldn't be good to share same ids?
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If it shared ids, your navigation would always be messed up -- when you entered the category it wouldn't show the navigation for the proper parent, but rather for the original categories parent. And the same goes for links with for link details and comments pages. As for SEO, that's not my area so I don't know. My impression though is that if there were any slight difference it would only be when pages are exactly identical, and the different navigations make the pages distinct, thus it might improve your SEO standing by getting extra pages indexed.
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It is 99.9% same content. Navigation line would not make pages distinct.
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99.9% same = distinct. Countless legitimate pages are 99.9% the same as other pages. I certainly am not going to believe a search engine would decline to index it on the basis of indistinctness unless you can prove it.
Anyhow, if you really want a bug that badly you'll have to downgrade to a version that had the bug.
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Paul, it is not about beeing indexed or not by search engines. Would you make 1000 copies of a same page with different navigation lines just for the purpose of having more pages indexed? No, this is not the point. It is about having unique content on a unique page with as many backward links to it.
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Yes, the bug fix was about making it be unique content on a unique page so as not to misrepresent your site structure, but you're complaining about it. If you have some odd belief that it's better to misrepresent your site, then as I said, downgrade. Or perhaps you don't really want to be using an alias in the first place, and what you were looking for was the related categories option. Regardless, that's all I have to say on the matter.