Trailing Slashes on URLs
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Hi we currently have a site on Wordpress which has two version of each URL trailing slash on URLs and one without it.
Example:
www.domain.com/page (preferred version - based on link data)
The non-slash version of the URL has most of the external links pointing to them, so we are going to pick that as the preferred version.
However, currently, each version of every URL has rel canonical tag pointing to the non-preferred version.
E.g. www.domain.com/page the rel canonical tag is: www.domain.com/page/
What would be the best way to clean up this setup?
Cheers.
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Have you seen this related question? You can edit your .htaccess file to remove the trailing slash everywhere. Or, if you want to enforce the trailing slash and you're using Yoast, you can do that with one check of a checkbox. Either should be fine, but I think you have the right idea planning to remove all trailing slashes since that's how external links reference your site.
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