• Graywolf's SEO Blog, Monday, November 2, 2009 2:15 PM

Those site architecture solutions search engines have begun to release will only provide a temporary fix and could force the engines to track two separate URLs for one articles, according to Michael Gray. He points a better way to resolve the site architecture issues when content exists in two URLs.

It appears that not following Gray's advice could stop an article from going "hot" or "popular" in sites like Digg or Stumbleupon, because the votes will get spread across two URLs, he writes. "Here's an experiment, go try and append a meaningless imaginary parameter or two to a URL and submit it to a social site like Digg or Stumbleupon and see what happens," he writes. "The simple fact is they aren't sophisticated enough to parse it out as [a] tracking parameter."

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