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Hi I have a situation on a website where the links are structured like this http://website.com/myurl/ so anywhere you click you will land on a page with a trailing slash but if i remove the trailing slash like this http://website.com/myurl the page is still going to open the same content.

1. so it works with and without the trailing slash. is this considered as duplicate content by google? and if so what is the best way to go? should i redirect al the non trailing slash urls to trailing slash or the opposite?

2. if i redirect am i going to loose some link juice from existing external links which mainly already point to urls without th trailing slash.

3. i've noticed that the sitemap.xml contains links without the trailing slash .. should it contain the urls with the trailing slash?

Also there's many external links pointing to this site but withouth the trailng slash like this http://website.com/myurl

I thought about that also but its not the case.. when i try that i get around 30k indexed pages in google

Hi Sajeet ..what do you mean by "Just check site: data and see if the number approximately matches the number of internal links data." where do i check that?

My issue is that i have 133k external links and 730k total links. And from what i've read on the forums this means that we have about 597k internal links (730k total links minus 133k external links). And this seems like HUGE number of internal links. I somehow think it might be affecting our seo rankings as it might look like some "fishy" practice to Google.

So in the graphs i can see that this number of total links has actually risen from 400k to 700k in the past months.. And since our external link count hasn't changed that much it means the number of internal links has grown a lot. So my idea is to check what are these internal links so I can better understand where they come from.

Can anyone explain how come we have such a HUGE number of internal links? And more importnantly how can we see a list of these internal links so we could possibly rectify this and check if all is in order?

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We are analysing why our website ranks so low (currently position 8 in serp). We beat our competitors in most areas. Also we produce by far the most useful content. Do not buy links or do any other malpractice. We have been for a long time ranked in top 3 (well mostly 1-2) positions. In the last year we have seen a decline to position 8-10 and we are not sure why this is the case.

Can anyone suggest what we should be focusing on? We are clueless. All the practices we used to "know" now seem obsolete.

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