Backlinks with Trailing slash or Without Trailing Slash ?

bluegarden

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• Jul 10, 2011

• #1

hi,

i've been doing lots of xrumer and sb backlinks. recently, i changed my static website to a wordpress site.

should i use http://www.mysite.com/page1/ or http://www.mysite.com/page1
for the backlinks that i build ?

wordpress does not usually show the trailing slash after pages. but it shows the trailing slash for posts.

 

thetraveller

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• Jul 10, 2011

• #2

I think you should use the slash, some programs may consider "/page1" a link to a file rather than a directory.

 

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valle

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• Jul 10, 2011

• #3

Don't think it matters but choose one and stick with it.

 

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kawarimi

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• Jul 11, 2011

• #4

Yup, choose one and stick with it.

 

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Victoria Seo

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• Jul 11, 2011

• #5

Really this doesn't matter much, but it's always better to do backlinks with one type of links, so choose one and link to it constantly

 

bluegarden

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• Jul 12, 2011
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• #6

the issue would be duplicate content since Google treats

http://www.mysite.com/page and http://www.mysite.com/page/ as two different pages that is why the non slash version could have PR7 and the slash version PR0.

one thing i noticed with Wordpress Version 3.2 is that it always uses a trailing slash. in fact you can never remove the trailing slash.

with earlier Wordpress versions, you can remove the trailing slash.

 

shaun_shaun

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• Aug 17, 2011

• #7

I dont think there is any problem with or without / ..
usually I m building backlinks to without /(www.mydomain.com).
anyway in my website, I have same PR to / and without / versions. it doesnt really matter..google always shows webpages as www.mydomain.com/ (with /) in their search results.

 

Drink More Tea

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• Aug 17, 2011

• #8

I would use both for the purpose of making your linking look more natural.

 

Frogserv

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• Aug 17, 2011

• #9

On the root domain, with or without the /, it's not a big deal.

But http://www.mysite.com/page1/ or http://www.mysite.com/page1 are not the same for GG. If it's a page, build your links without the /.
If you have already done linkbuilding with the /, you can write a 301 rule to the url without the /