Question Post redirects

[xenigma]

I was playing around in Google search console (Fetch as Google) to see whether any content was being blocked. I don't include posts in the sitemap but just out of interest I got Google to fetch some random post URLs for example:

https://www.mysite.com/forum/f1/some-post-title-12345-post12345/#post12345

I then hit "fetch" and got the result as "redirected."

The resultant, successfully fetched, URL is:

https://www.mysite.com/forum/f1/some-post-title-12345/#post12345

I assume that this is normal behaviour but why is it necessary?

 

[Fillip H.]

Because the first link is a permalink. Permalinks are needed because otherwise, differences in "post per page" settings would make it impossible to link directly to a post without significant performance detriment.

Permalinks are redirected to the actual post link, relevant to the current user's context (i.e. if the post is on page 1, don't include page info, etc).

 

[xenigma]

Cheers for the explanation. Much appreciated

 

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