Should one end URLs with or without a slash?

[jessential]

Moz, I am noticing that I need to go back and update my outbound links to your site. There are a lot of them because your content is so great and we love you guys.

Could you explain your logic for making the change?

Example on my Valid JSON-LD image sizes page:

[https://moz.com/blog/state-of-searcher-behavior-revealed/](https://moz.com/blog/state-of-searcher-behavior-revealed/)
redirected to: [https://moz.com/blog/state-of-searcher-behavior-revealed](https://moz.com/blog/state-of-searcher-behavior-revealed)

[jessential]

Thanks, James Wolff. I appreciate your suggestion and will do so.

It is interesting that many have commented here:

Add Trailing Slash to the End of the URL with .htaccess Rewrite Rules

"The URL for a "page" should NOT end with a trailing slash. URL ending in trailing slash denotes a folder or the index page of a folder."

My issue is not that it fails to redirect; it is that I have too many redirects in the process.

[jessential]

Hi James and Churchhill1 - I appreciate your answers and perspective.

My question is especially directed to Moz staff. Why would Moz choose to make the change?

I am also curious because I am facing AMP redirect loops that I need to solve.

Perhaps Moz's answer or someone will have insights on how do I avoid such unnecessary 301 redirects?

1. https://www.hillwebcreations.com is redirected to
2. https://www.hillwebcreations.com/amp which is redirected to
3. https://www.hillwebcreations.com/amp/

I am wondering if this plays somehow into Moz's decision to change their AMP URL endings.

[Churchill1]

I agree with James there is no benefit of doing that. Invest your time for something that adds real value to the client/company / your project. You should have in fact a rule set in htaccess if you are on apache stating that you want all the links with the slash or without. For external links just use search and replace function.