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Asked: 2026-06-17T09:30:41+00:00

I’m thinking of doing such structure for accessing some hypothetical page: /foo/ID/some-friendly-string The key

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I’m thinking of doing such structure for accessing some hypothetical page:

/foo/ID/some-friendly-string

The key part here is “ID” that identifies the page so everything that’s not ID is only relevant to SEO. I also want everything else that isn’t “/foo/ID/some-friendly-string” to redirect to the original link. Eg.:

  • /foo/ID —> /foo/ID/some-friendly-string
  • /foo/ID/some-friendly-string-blah —> /foo/ID/some-friendly-string

But what if somehow these links get “polluted” somewhere on the internet and spiders start accessing them with “/foo/ID/some-friendly-string-blah-blah-pollution” URLs? I don’t even know if this can happen, but if, say, some bad person decided to post thousands of such “different” links on some well known forums or some such – then google would find thousands of “different” URLs 301-redirecting to the same page.

In such case – would there be some sort of a penalty or is it all the same to google as long as the endpoint is unique and no content duplicates?

I might be a little paranoid with this, but that’s just my nature to investigate explaitable situations 🙂

Thanks for your thoughts

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your approach of using 301 redirect is correct.

    301 redirects are very useful if people access your site through several different URLs.
    For instance, your page for a given ID can be accessed in multiple ways, say:

    It is a good idea to pick one of those URLs (you have decided to be http://yoursite.com/foo/ID/some-friendly-string) as your preferred URL and use 301 redirects to send traffic from the other URLs to your preferred one.

    I would also recommend adding canonical link to the HEAD section on the page e.g. 

    <link rel="canonical" href="http://yourwebsite.com/foo/ID/some-friendly-string"/>

    You can get more details on 301 redirects in:

    I hope that will help you out with your decisions on redirects.

    EDIT

    I forgot to mention very good example, namely, Stack Overflow. The URL of this question is
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14318239/seo-301-redirect-limits but you can access it with http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14318239/blahblah and will get redirect to the original URL.

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