Google: The Trailing Slash Is Implied For Canonicalization

Dec 27, 2018 - 7:51 am 4 by

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Google's John Mueller said on Twitter some time ago that the trailing slash after the domain name is an implied canonical. He said "The trailing slash after a domain name is always there, even if it's not shown." "It's always implied for canonicalization," he added.

Here are the tweets about this:

So if you see https://www.seroundtable.com it really means https://www.seroundtable.com/

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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