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Will removing the trailing slash impact my SEO?
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Hi there,
We have a company website based on Wordpress.
I just noticed that under Settings > Permalinks I can configure the look of the URLs and even remove the trailing slash.
We have about 2-300 pages online. If I remove the trailing slash now, will that negatively impact our SEO in anyway for existing pages?
Thanks!
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Hi,
Back in the days the trailing slash suggested "this is a directory" in contrary to "this is a file". Browsers would react slightly faster – or at least that's what I was told – when they were indirectly told "look for a file called index…". Today that trailing slash is next to obsolete.
Today it is considered good practice to either always or never have that trailing slash – otherwise it could be considered duplicate content.
But as far as I know neither theory has any impact on SEO.
Thanks
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