Should i rank inner pages with or without the / ?

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PowerRabbit91

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Let's just say i am doing link building for a URL that i want to rank

www.abc.com/pages/
www.abc.com/pages

with or without the /

and 2nd question

should i redirect the one WITHOUT the "/" to WITH the "/" or the other way round?

 

Panther28

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Wouldn't worry about it, but without the slash looks the best.

 

bobrock2053

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Keep everything consistent. If you have a trailing slash, you should have a trailing slash on all pages. Set your URLs up to redirect to a consistent syntax. Any links you are building should point to the URL resolving in a 200 status.

 

Mr Positive

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Either way is fine till the link works when opening the url

 

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Matheus Moreira

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Webservers usually add the last slash automatically, so i guess it would make sense to redirect and use only the version with the slash.

Btw even when you copy a naked domain like "domain.com" on chrome or firefox bar guess what goes to the clipboard? -> "http://domain.com/"

They just add the slash by default.

 

Last edited: Jul 19, 2020

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remboka

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i never pay attention about it, but i don't think it matters

 

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PowerRabbit91

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thanks everyone

 

Rai.

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For your first question, it doesn't matter.

The second question, it matters.

If you have two pages with '/' and without it. It is seen as a duplicate content.
Example:

1. Website.com/best-dog-food/
2. Website.com/best-dog-food

These are two different pages with the same content, if one doesn't redirect to another one, it means duplicate content. So make sure you don't have this underlying issues on your site and that they get redirected.