On-Page SEO

Trailing Slash

Quick Definition

A trailing slash is the '/' character at the end of a URL. Both /page and /page/ technically resolve to the same content but are different URLs.

In context

Pick one convention (with or without trailing slash) and 301-redirect the other to it. Inconsistency creates duplicate content and dilutes ranking signals across two URL versions.

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