Got stuck with trailing slash issue

by extremejava

Posted: 12 years ago 2 replies

Hi,

Can someone explain why the trailing slash issue is being reported by FOUND SEO Audit Tool - Free Online Canonicalisation & Link Checker for website Java web development tutorials

While Java web development tutorials successfully redirects to Java web development tutorials

Is there really any issue with the website or the tool is above tool is buggy. If there is an issue how to fix it using .htaccess

#issue #slash #stuck #trailing

Hardy Chou

12 years ago

Your default link structure looks like this:

Code:

http://www.mkyong.com/tutorials/spring-tutorials/

But somewhere on your site, there's a link that goes like this: (note the missing trailing slash at the end)

Code:

http://www.mkyong.com/tutorials/spring-tutorials

Thus, SEO Audit Tool reports it as trailing slash issue.

They say that Google will index both links though they are the same. And they think that this will eventually be treated as duplicate content which could get you penalized. I personally think this is a non-issue since I believe googlebot can tell that the two are the same.

Originally Posted by extremejava

Thanks

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extremejava 12 years ago
Thanks Hardy for your reply.
If you notice
Code:

http:/mkyong.com/
redirects to
Code:

http://mkyong.com
and
Code:

http://www.mkyong.com/java/java-getresourceasstream-in-static-method
redirects to
Code:

http://www.mkyong.com/java/java-getresourceasstream-in-static-method/
In terms of trailing slash, the home page and internal page are redirecting in opposite direction. Is that a issue as I think the tool is reporting the same. How can I fix it if it is an issue.
- Thanks
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