Wordpress - Why do PermaLinks Get Rewritten to Include a 2 at the end?
 

So I have handwritten posts that have their permalinks rewritten, somehow, to include a 2 at the end. I could see if they were duplicate posts pulled from rss, but they are not.

Has anyone had this issue before, or know what could be causing it?

Because you used the same title before.

a little bit swaying off topic, but did you guys see the latest straight from google that basically says that rewriting url's is a bad idea for seo? :warning

Link please?

No, that's also what I had initially thought when I first noticed this issue, but it is not the case. The post with the original permalink, without the 2, is gone and brings up the error page. Something is rewriting the permalinks to posts, aka there isn't a duplicate post/permalink.

Here's a list of installed plugins:

All in One SEO Pack
Enforce www Pref
FLV Embed
Google XML Sitemaps
Lighter Menus
Login Lockdown
Optimize DB
Sociable
WP DB Backup
WP-Sticky

Perhaps you may have heard bad things about one of the plugins that I might not be aware of?

Gotta link "straight from Google?"

To tell you the truth, when I have a suspected plugin issue I just shut them all off at the same time and see if the problem goes away. Then I proceed as warranted.

here is the link, it is a little complicated wording from the engineers and is not specifically addressing the common wordpress techniques, but this is straight from google so it is open to interpretation what they are trying to achieve and where this may lead to in the near future

maybe they aren't happy about 'seo plugins' and seo optimization and would rather discount any of those efforts that webmasters make so that any site slapped up by even the most seo-ignorant webmaster would all be equal at the get go

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...atic-urls.html

here is a quote straight from the google engineers:

"Does that mean I should avoid rewriting dynamic URLs at all?
That's our recommendation, unless your rewrites are limited to removing unnecessary parameters, or you are very diligent in removing all parameters that could cause problems. If you transform your dynamic URL to make it look static you should be aware that we might not be able to interpret the information correctly in all cases. If you want to serve a static equivalent of your site, you might want to consider transforming the underlying content by serving a replacement which is truly static. One example would be to generate files for all the paths and make them accessible somewhere on your site. However, if you're using URL rewriting (rather than making a copy of the content) to produce static-looking URLs from a dynamic site, you could be doing harm rather than good. Feel free to serve us your standard dynamic URL and we will automatically find the parameters which are unnecessary"

it is funny reading the comments from all the angry "SEO people" to the google engineers, but there are some in support.... here are a couple examples:


"I have a website that uses dynamic URLs extensively as it's DB based. This article makes perfect sense and has a lot of suggestions that I can work with.

First, it debunks the URL rewrite myths that have wasted so much of people's time messing about with .htaccess!

Second it shows that Google is on top of the normalisation issue - each URL should contain only enough information to uniquely identify a single page.

The message is loud and clear - don't waste your time trying to game the search engines. Just provide good content in pages whose URLs have only those parameters that are necessary to identify the page."

and...

"I think a lot of people are from SEOs and are very upset to learn that they've been charging people for bad advice. Sure, you see results; but, I doubt anyone has done a study to see how much adding intelligent meta data affects ranking over the course of a few months compared to simply changing the URL. Also, this is probably emergent tech from google to circumvent all the SEO attempts that place more value on manipulation than content -- totally against the google ideal. They're not saying "don't do it;" they're saying "know what you're getting into." I think a lot of posters have some issues with this revelation and don't want to believe it; so they attack it. I'm guilty of the opposite -- I've been waiting for it and wanting it."

sorry dav3 for hijacking the thread, got asked for a link and things got out of control, I should have started a new thread:error

no worries buddy, was a good read anyway. :)