Two Url for the same page?

fabthi

Hi everybody
I noticed that the url for this page of my website sometime changes, how is it possible?
http://www.imaginevenice.com/Photography/Black-and-White-Images-Gallery/14042345_j37oU#1036207309_AFHSf
http://www.imaginevenice.com/Photography/Black/14042345_j37oU#1036207309_AFHSf
The NiceName from gallery settings:

Andy

The url with Black-and-White is your proper url.

fabthi

Please bear with me, I am not very experienced with this kind of things; waht do you mean with "...your proper url"?
Which url should I use to share?

Allen

Where is -Images-Gallery coming from?
It's not part of the gallery title. And if Nicenames is adding it, it makes the
link very long. A huge problem sending links in email.

fabthi

Allen wrote: »

Where is -Images-Gallery coming from?
It's not part of the gallery title. And if Nicenames is adding it, it makes the
link very long. A huge problem sending links in email.

My confusion is sky-rocketing

jfriend

Allen wrote: »

Where is -Images-Gallery coming from?
It's not part of the gallery title. And if Nicenames is adding it, it makes the
link very long. A huge problem sending links in email.

It's in the nicename (see his screen shot above).

Fabthi, the "nicename" feature for a gallery or category helps you control what the URL looks like for the gallery. It allows you to separately control the URL and gallery title so the two don't have to be exactly the same (particularly useful when there are special characters in the gallery name that can't be in the URL). So, just edit the nicename for the gallery to make it what you would like to be in the URL.

Something else you may want to know. When you have a gallery URL like this:

http://www.imaginevenice.com/Photography/Black-and-White-Images-Gallery/14042345_j37oU#1036207309_AFHSf

that contains the gallery ID and key (shown in red above), the other text after the domain and before the gallery number in the URL does not matter at all. It is there to help with SEO, but it can literally be anything. I wouldn't recommend you do anything with that, but it explains why multiple URLs can all end up in the same place.

As an example, this URL will go to the exact same place as the above URL. In fact, it will redirect to the above URL (again for SEO reasons):

http://www.imaginevenice.com/xxxx/yyyy/14042345_j37oU#1036207309_AFHSf