1. Actual rel="canonical" tags.

2. As soon as we relised everything was fixed. Canonical tag is showing urls without slash and also aplied to htaccess to redirect slash version to non slash version.

<cite>we're using www.shopify.com</cite>

Thanks a lot.

Now when i click the slash version of the indexed URL from google goes to nonslash version. So it seems we're safe now.

The other thing is when I submitted the sitemap.xml after launch it was without slash. Also all internal links are targeting nonslash URLs. I think google should understand that this is a technical issue and now it has been solved.

When should i remove that redirect?

I checked with this website: http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

It says:

http://www.mydomain.com/jason.html/

Type of redirect: 301 Moved Permanently

http://www.mydomain.com/jason.html

So looks as if it's done the job. Right?

RewriteRule ^([^/]+/)*([^/.]+).html/ http://www.mydomain.com/$2.html [R=301,L]

Looks like above did the trick

Please can you tell me how to redirect urls with slash to non slash urls using .htaccess.

Hi Guys,

We redesigned the website and somehow our canonical extension decided to add a trailing slash to all URLs. Previously our canonical URLs didn't have a trailing slash.

During the redesign we haven't changed the URLs. They remained same but we have now two versions indexed. One with trailing slash one without.

I've now fixed the issue and removed the the trailing slash from canonical URLs.

Is this the correct way of fixing it? Will our rankings be effected in a negative way?

Is there anything else I need to do.

The website went live last Tuesday.

Thanks

One of my friend attended seomoz conference in london yesterday and he swears there was a talk that google pushes down exact keyword match domains which build backlinks with domain name as anchor text.

What are the pros and cons having exact match domain and how can you create a brand name and build backlinks?

Say we have a domain personalizedbirthdaygifts.com

We are quite stuck with what anchor text we need to use and how do we vary it?

I've heard that we have to stay away from using commercial keywords as anchor text heavily. We have to also use our brand name. And here we get stuck as we don't have a brand name. In this case Our brand name should be personalized birthday gifts but this is also commercial keyword.

I have seen before similar websites droped from ranking because they have commercial keywords in their domain and most of their backlink anchor texts are commercial.

If I had a website called twentyfive.com selling birthday gifts it would be a lot easier. But when you have a website personalizedbirthdaygifts.com and trying to rank for personalized birthday gifts and birthday gifts it's tough. OR isn't it?

I hope I explained it well and didn't confuse anybody...

Thanks