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Re:Start unique and drop the “the” – some thoughts on URLs by walshemj on Saturday September 28, 2013 @12:07PM (#6462142)
Well shouldn't it have been the-manchester-guardian.com :-)

Will be interesting to have a look and see how well or not the in house seo/dev team have done the migration

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Re:Start unique and drop the “the” – some thoughts on URLs by dc2447 on Saturday September 28, 2013 @04:39PM (#6463088)
URLS were and I assume still are a massive part of the collective thought process in the Guardian but yeah, if you are GU then the internet will take whatever you say as canonical to be canonical regardless of seo strategy
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Re:Start unique and drop the “the” – some thoughts on URLs by walshemj on Saturday September 28, 2013 @05:16PM (#6463185)
didn't work when a major uk job site (no names no pack drill) stuffed up its canonicals on all its job category pages cost them 1/2 a mill in less than a week.
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