Redirect both / and non-/ URLs?
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I am doing SEO on WP site. Due to some duplicate pages (rel canonical was done before) I am doing 301 redirects at the moment. And I wonder if I need to redirect both links w/ and w/o trailing slash. Default is non www, w/o trailing slash.
Like there is .com/category/news but there is same page linked in .com/news (well it works when permalink structure is set to /%category%/%postname% and returns 404 error when structure is set to /%postname%).
I redirected .lt/naujienos to .lt/category/naujienos. Should I also redirect .lt/naujienos/ (with trailing slash)?There's absolutely no problem redirecting this, but there are some more pages which I want to edit their URLs and I wonder If I should do both redirects from links /w and w/o slash?
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There is my .htaccess at the moment:
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>I don't want to mess with it because I don't have an access to cpanel.
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Well, I want non-trailing URLs as they are at the moment. They should be (the ones without trailing slash) rel canonical as they were before I changed permalink structure ( it was set to default: /?p=123) to /%postname%
I guess I will wait a crawl to see how it is at the moment and fix all those pages with 404.
BTW, google shows my site and pages with /. Maybe it hasn't recrawled yet.
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Another option would be to add another re-direct rule that would add a trailing slash to all of the URLS.
So effectively, if you re-direct the non-trailing URLS all URLS would then have a trailing slash.RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[^./]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.)/$
RewriteRule ^(.)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]Give this a try maybe? Just ensure that the REL Canonical reflects the URLS WITH the trailing slash otherwise you will get stuck in a canonical loop.
Craig Curchin
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Fisher,
Google deals with both with / and without / as though they are the same thing so I wouldn't worry about redirecting those. If visitors normally get a trailing slash, canonicalize that, if they don't canonicalize on the URL without the slash.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/
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