If you want your web pages to rank high in search engine result pages, then you should make sure your URL is properly optimized. This is one of the important on-page optimization technique.
Why We Need To Optimize URL?
First reason to optimize URL structure is to increase search engine rankings which will bring us free natural traffic. Secondly human readable URL structure can increase your clickthrough rate. People click more on readable URLs as they give us idea about the actual content on the web page.

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URL Structure Optimization Tips

Google, together with Yahoo and Microsoft have just announced a new tag, canonical link, which can be used to publicly tell search engines your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that’s accessible through multiple URLs, canonical link provides you with more control over the URL returned in search results. It also helps to make sure that the properties of a web page such as link popularity are consolidated to your preferred URL.
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Fix WordPress Pagination Comments Duplicate Content Issue
by Bey Luen on March 4, 2009
in Search Engine Optimization
Since the release of WordPress 2.7, businesses, marketers and bloggers face another duplicate content issue with comment pagination.
By default, WordPress 2.7 will split comments into pages everytime it reaches 50. Obviously this is a good feature to reduce the web page loading time if there hundreds or thousands of comments and improve user experience.
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