SES URLs (And My Editing) To Blame For Duplicate Feed Items
posted Mar 13, 2008 at 10:15:43 PM by Doug Gibson.
My latest article, CSS: Overcoming "background: transparent" In IE seems to have shown up in my RSS reader at least four times. It looks like this is one of the down-sides to my implementation of Search Engine Safe (SES) URLs, which I plan to discuss in more detail at a later date.
Because I tweaked the headline, the actual link to the article has changed as well, and therefore the GUID in my RSS feed is changed, making it look like a new, unique article. Some systems generate a unique GUID based on a hash of the content, so any change would trigger duplicates.
I just thought I'd mention that as a caveat. I'll definitely have to consider my headlines more carefully before publishing an article in the future. Sorry 'bout that.
