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Confusion over slash or no slash?
Posted by on April 23, 2026 at 2:08 pmI can't remember where I saw it, but I seem to recall that you need to be consistent with either an end slash or not at the end of the website URL, otherwise Google may get confused and not know which one to give priority to.
Can anyone else here verify this at all?
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Yes. They are considered different and unique URLs by search engines. As stupid as that sounds…
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Your understanding of the issue is a little incorrect. The confusion arises when your site configuration allows for the same page to exist either with or without a trailing slash. For example, if you are able to access “../store” and “../store/” on your site, this may cause issues with indexation.
To resolve this you can add a programmatic redirect in your .htaccess file to append or remove the slash via a 301 redirect and place a self referencing canonical tag on the page for the path that you chose. It doesn’t matter whether you have a trailing slash or not as long as only one version of the page is accessible.
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Just thinking out loud and wondering if there’s any way in .htaccess to redirect all non-trailing to trailing?
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