Does the slash matter in the end of url? what is the difference?
for example:
http://www.abe123/cdf and http://www.abe123/cdf/ slash does not matter at the end of url? as you see on each url there is no any slash at the end of url...
If I get it correctly, you are referring to trailing slash. If so, my answer would be a yes. Yes, it matters (in search engine standpoint) because search engines will take the trailing slash and the no trailing slash versions of your site as two different URLs and might violate search engine guideline specifically, duplicate content.
Ways on how you can act regarding this issue:[*]Use one version on URL and be consistent with it through out the site. If your site is using a folder structure, I would recommend you to use trailing slash for your URLs.[*]Use rel="canonical"[*]Implement 301 redirect
Hope that helps.
There are duplication matter with slash and non slash url.
just we need to put <link> tag to specify our preferred version of url.
<link rel="canonical" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"http://www.xyz.com/phrase1-phrase2" />
inside the <head> section of the duplicate content urls.
"http://www.xyz.com/phrase1-phrase2/"
"http://www.xyz.com/phrase1-phrase2.html"
Use of punctuation in our urls. The url "http://www.xyz.com/phrase1-phrase2.html" is much more useful to google than "http://www.xyz.com/phrase1phrase2.html". Google recommend that we use hyphens (-) instead of underscores (_) in our urls.
Do use a robots.txt file to block bot's access to problematic urls. Yes it does matter...When you go to a URL without the trailing slash, web server looks for a file with that name. If it doesn
for example:
http://www.abe123/cdf and http://www.abe123/cdf/ slash does not matter at the end of url? as you see on each url there is no any slash at the end of url...
Ways on how you can act regarding this issue:[*]Use one version on URL and be consistent with it through out the site. If your site is using a folder structure, I would recommend you to use trailing slash for your URLs.[*]Use rel="canonical"[*]Implement 301 redirect
Hope that helps.
just we need to put <link> tag to specify our preferred version of url.
<link rel="canonical" href=http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/"http://www.xyz.com/phrase1-phrase2" />
inside the <head> section of the duplicate content urls.
"http://www.xyz.com/phrase1-phrase2/"
"http://www.xyz.com/phrase1-phrase2.html"
Use of punctuation in our urls. The url "http://www.xyz.com/phrase1-phrase2.html" is much more useful to google than "http://www.xyz.com/phrase1phrase2.html". Google recommend that we use hyphens (-) instead of underscores (_) in our urls.
Do use a robots.txt file to block bot's access to problematic urls. Yes it does matter...When you go to a URL without the trailing slash, web server looks for a file with that name. If it doesn