Title: PERMALINK PROBLEM-HAVING MORE THAN TWO PERMALINK FOR SAME POST
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# PERMALINK PROBLEM-HAVING MORE THAN TWO PERMALINK FOR SAME POST

 *  [Monica28](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monica28/)
 * (@monica28)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-having-more-than-two-permalink-for-same-post/)
 * hello!
    I am facing a problem with my PERMALINK.Previously the permalink of my
   site was [http://www.watchonlineshow.com/category/hollywood/hollywood-movies-by-year/hollywood-movies-of-2012/](http://www.watchonlineshow.com/category/hollywood/hollywood-movies-by-year/hollywood-movies-of-2012/)
 * then I added a code in my functions.php file, also I activated a plugin called”
   No Category Parents ” to make my permalink look like this
    [http://www.watchonlineshow.com/hollywood-movies-of-2012/](http://www.watchonlineshow.com/hollywood-movies-of-2012/)
   AND THE CODE IS :
 *     ```
       add_action( 'init', 'build_taxonomies', 0 );  
   
       function build_taxonomies() {
   
         register_taxonomy( 'category', 'post', array(
       		'hierarchical' => true,
       	 	'update_count_callback' => '_update_post_term_count',
       		'query_var' => 'category_name',
       		'rewrite' => did_action( 'init' ) ? array(
       					'hierarchical' => false,
       					'slug' => get_option('category_base') ? get_option('category_base') : 'category',
       					'with_front' => false) : false,
       		'public' => true,
       		'show_ui' => true,
       		'_builtin' => true,
       	) );
   
       }
       ```
   
 * Now the problem is that all previous links as well as new links are working and
   the same page is loaded from both urls. I want to know whether this is 301 Redirect?
   Or its a bad thing

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 *  [Paul Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakingid/)
 * (@freakingid)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-having-more-than-two-permalink-for-same-post/#post-2878203)
 * Hi there,
 * It is not a 301 Redirect, but also not necessarily a bad thing. WordPress does
   this using permalink aliases, that is — it doesn’t forget the old link, just 
   in case you spread that link around the internet before you updated to a new 
   permalink structure.
 * That said, you don’t want the rest of the internet using two different URLs to
   get to the same page on your site. SO, if you have any sites (or your own site)
   linking via the old URL, you should update that to use the new structure.
 * If you don’t, then your “Link Juice” for SEO purposes will get divided between
   the two different URLs.
 * Let me know if you need more clarification / help.
    Take care, Paul
 *  Thread Starter [Monica28](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monica28/)
 * (@monica28)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-having-more-than-two-permalink-for-same-post/#post-2878259)
 * Thanks alot paul!
    So in order to change this, should I redirect my old links
   to the new one using REDIRECTION plugin? There are almost 600 urls that need 
   to be changed.Would this affect my site’s loading time?
 * One more thing,I just came to know that this is happening due to SEO ULTIMATE
   plugin.
    SEO ULTIMATE has enabled 4 links. mysite.com/category/parents/parents1/
   child mysite.com/parents/parents1/child mysite.com/parents1/child mysite.com/
   child Using any of the links opens the same page,I mean same content(no redirection
   to any link is done). Is this happening because of the 404 Monitor of “SEO ULTIMATE”?
   Please Help!!
 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-having-more-than-two-permalink-for-same-post/#post-2878260)
 * I need to hire you two to type for us. 8 minutes for all this!
 *  [Paul Kaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakingid/)
 * (@freakingid)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-having-more-than-two-permalink-for-same-post/#post-2878282)
 * Monica,
    1. The important thing about your URL’s is that you promote / publish
   only one version of the URL. It’s okay that different versions of the URL work,
   but you only want “the rest of the world” to be using one version of the URL.
 * In your case, you now want the world seeing URLs like this:
    [http://www.watchonlineshow.com/hollywood-movies-of-2012/](http://www.watchonlineshow.com/hollywood-movies-of-2012/)(
   Correct?)
 * I just checked through your site, and that is always how the URLs are listed,
   so you should be fine.
 * Paul
 *  Thread Starter [Monica28](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monica28/)
 * (@monica28)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-having-more-than-two-permalink-for-same-post/#post-2878293)
 * Yes paul that is exactly what I want . But still I have doubts about traffic 
   being divided over 4 different links because google has already crawled 2 of 
   the above links.
    Plus, doesn’t this create a problem of DUPLICATE CONTENT for
   web Browsers??

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