Buliding links to "website.com" and "website.com/" ?

[Leo00]

I have heard on a conference that URLs e.g. "website.com" and "website.com/" are duplicate URLs.

Is Google smart enough nowadays to filter this out? To my link builders I always provide form website.com/, but sometimes they use form without the slash.

What is your opinion?

 

[adaptable]

I am pretty sure Google is that smart.

Though using both looks natural instead of 100% no slash and vice versa.

 

[Kralj187]

Don't know what conference that was, but it was a waste of your money

 

[diesel1]

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G00gle search...

http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningtutorials/f/why-urls-end-in-slash.htm

 

[Leo00]

Made my day It was WordPress WordCamp actually.

Don't know what conference that was, but it was a waste of your money

But seriously. Wouldn't it make sense to 301 redirect the website.com => website.com/ ? Just to pass the link juice.

 

[diesel1]

Wouldn't it make sense to 301 redirect the website.com => website.com/ ? Just to pass the link juice.

You can if you want to but I don't think it's necessary

 

[godspeed007]

Yeah It's not necessary.

 

[Toz]

You can also throw in a "www.", if you REALLY want to outsmart Google!

Just kidding..

Use different variations of your URL, as well as linking to more of your interior pages.

 

[Leo00]

Actually 301 redirection of www. to non-www (or vice versa) is a classic best practice to avoid duplicate content - stated by every serious (printed) book about SEO I have

You can also throw in a "www.", if you REALLY want to outsmart Google!

Just kidding..

Use different variations of your URL, as well as linking to more of your interior pages.

 

[Kenobii]

Link to what on can see on your address bar.

 

[karupoiss]

I once read about the / or not / thing and the server pretty much searches for index.php or index.html when you arrive to the just / address and 301 redirect you to index.php/index.html file. So in the end, it doesn't matter.