By Anonymous (not verified) on

Hello. I realise this question is basic but its something I was asked about today and could'nt answer.
My site: http://www.bingoparadise.co.uk/ is set to have the trailing slash, if you enter it without in a browser it will be added.
When i'm gaining links to the site should I be asking for the links with or without the slash? Does it have importance?

Thanks
-Tom

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asd123asd5 commented

The main issue here is 'duplicate content' search engines see http://www.bingoparadise.co.uk http://www.bingoparadise.co.uk/ http://bingoparadise.co.uk and http://bingoparadise.co.uk/ as separate pages. You can use whichever you want, but the important thing is to stick with one.

You can use this module: http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect to give a permanent (301) redirection from (example) 'content/' to 'content'.

NB: There was a post by google on their blog at one point saying that the google engine does a pretty good job of figuring out what is intentional duplicate content and what is not, but better safe than sorry.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Thanks. That is really sound useful advice.
I'll stick to one from now on.

Furthermore, I already use the module you were speaking of. Therefore whatever you enter in the address bar out of the options you put above you end up being redirected to http://www.bingoparadise.co.uk/

If people are linking to http://www.bingoparadise.co.uk will their 'link juice' be redirected to http://www.bingoparadise.co.uk/ ?

I suppose my fear is of having ineffective inbound links which are ineffective due to missing off the '/'
-TOm

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asd123asd5 commented

No worries, no need to fear, with Global Redirect Module, if someone enters on bingoparadise.co.uk they will be redirected to the valid url

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

And does the same thing go for link juice?
If someone links to the wrong form of the domain, e.g. without the '/' does that link juice still get redirected?
Thanks
-Tom

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asd123asd5 commented

no matter what, once enabled, all links without the / will be 301 (permanent) redirected to / (if that's what you set it up to be)