Comments on: Short URLs with Wordpress http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/07/short-urls-with-wordpress "the concrete world is starting to get ya." Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:58:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sam Johnston http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/07/short-urls-with-wordpress/comment-page-1#comment-5349 Sam Johnston Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:32:32 +0000 http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=290#comment-5349 G'day, rev=canonical is a notoriously bad idea and I'm disappointed that its promoters are still flogging it. There is no need whatsoever to mess with canonical URLs and doing so can kill your search engine rankings... for example by installing this plugin you are now claiming that both http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/07/short-urls-with-wordpress and http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=290 are canonical URLs, which clearly they are not. Mix up rel and rev and you're in for even more trouble, not to mention that rev is deprecated. If you want a clean, standards compliant alternative then check out <a href="http://code.google.com/p/shortlink/" rel="nofollow">shortlink</a> and the corresponding Wordpress plugin. Sam G’day,

rev=canonical is a notoriously bad idea and I’m disappointed that its promoters are still flogging it. There is no need whatsoever to mess with canonical URLs and doing so can kill your search engine rankings… for example by installing this plugin you are now claiming that both http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/07/short-urls-with-wordpress and http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=290 are canonical URLs, which clearly they are not. Mix up rel and rev and you’re in for even more trouble, not to mention that rev is deprecated.

If you want a clean, standards compliant alternative then check out shortlink and the corresponding Wordpress plugin.

Sam

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