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Re:Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned by sams99 on Thursday June 07, 2012 @06:44AM (#4078327)
At Stack Overflow we use slugs for this approach,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/427102

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/427102/what-is-a-slug

etc, will all redirect to the canonical:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/427102/what-is-a-slug-in-...

If the title changes we update the slug and redirect with a 301 to the new canonical

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