2 different URLs are pointing to one category - bad SEO

[SkGold]

There are 2 different URLs pointing to the same category-page if you have more than one level of categories.

I guess that is easier to explain by using example.

Please visit this page http://resume.allaboutcalgary.com/categories/1.html
Than click on “Street Bikes” link in the “Browse Categories” table and you will arrive to this page http://resume.allaboutcalgary.com/categories/1/3.html

Now on this page if you click on “Street Bikes” link in breadcrumbs you will arrive to this page http://resume.allaboutcalgary.com/categories/3.html

Also if you view “Street Bikes Listing” you can see that breadcrumbs link on viewlisting page is pointing to this URL again http://resume.allaboutcalgary.com/categories/3.html

From this example you can see that “Street Bikes” category has 2 different URLs
http://resume.allaboutcalgary.com/categories/1/3.html and http://resume.allaboutcalgary.com/categories/3.html

I guess that there could be 2 possibilities to fix this.
1. To fix the links on category page in “Browse Categories” table by pointing them to http://resume.allaboutcalgary.com/categories/3.html
2. To fix breadcrumbs links by pointing them to http://resume.allaboutcalgary.com/categories/1/3.html

I prefer #1 as it make pages less deep.
However I was playing for several hrs with category.php (for solution #1) and with includes/functions.php (for solution #2) but cannot find the fix to any of them.

I really appreciate any help.

[civ]

We fixed this awhile back as well, but we don't use the SEO URLs so our solution was a bit different. The problem is that both the type# and section# show up in the URL but only the type is needed, but it is needed as the section#, lol. I realize that makes little sense, but it's true. Just take the section# from the URL and use it as the type# (and then remove the section declaration altogether). For example:

category.php?type=10&sec=50

should become

category.php?type=50

[SkGold]

Thanks CIV.
I guess that I fix it. For people who want to know here is what I did:
In category.php approximately on line 152 I changed this:

else
{
$rs['start_link']='<a href="category.php?type='.$type.'&sec='.$rs['id'].'">';
}

To this:

else
{
$rs['start_link']='<a href="category.php?type='.$rs['id'].'">';
}

It seems like it is working fine. Just have a couple questions.

Originally Posted by civ

...and then remove the section declaration altogether...

I am not really a big friend with coding.
What exactly need to remove? Do I really need to remove it and why?

[civ]

Judging by your code above, you did remove it.