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Patrick - Combinate Apr 01 2021 at 01:59

Both of these are acceptable in pOS

example.com/page
example.com/page/

Is there a way to force / redirect either way?

Our SEO team wants us to always have a trailing slash

Pawel Apr 01 2021 at 11:16
Did you ask why they want that? Apart from it being semantically incorrect (slash at the end means directory if its not just after TLD), it look like G doesnt care, just wants us to decide on one or the other. Sources: https://www.siteguru.co/seo-academy/trailing-slashes-and-seo#should-i-add-or-remove-a-trailing-slash https://ahrefs.com/blog/trailing-slash/

Patrick - Combinate Apr 07 2021 at 09:26

It matches the existing URL structure.

if we omit it, all legacy pages that have an exact match to a new page will need to 301 redirect from the slash version to the no-slash version

trying to we

Is there a way to add trailing slash to all urls