/ vs no-/ matter?

[SnapJacks]

I just noticed something, not sure how I missed it before...

www.mysite.com/page-number-one/

^ That is what gets indexed by google, and that is what wordpress defaults to

is it an issue if I have built internal and external links to www.mysite.com/page-number-one

^ notice the lack of the closing forward slash.

Even if I type that in without the closing forward slash wordpress obviously automatically resolves it to www.mysite.com/page-number-one/ but wondering if I am risking some loss of juice this way.

*feel so stupid!*hits self*

 

[dchuk]

if you're properly using 301 redirects you're fine

 

[jhoffy22]

I just noticed something, not sure how I missed it before...

www.mysite.com/page-number-one/

^ That is what gets indexed by google, and that is what wordpress defaults to

is it an issue if I have built internal and external links to www.mysite.com/page-number-one

^ notice the lack of the closing forward slash.

Even if I type that in without the closing forward slash wordpress obviously automatically resolves it to www.mysite.com/page-number-one/ but wondering if I am risking some loss of juice this way.

*feel so stupid!*hits self*

301 all URL variations.

[url=  http://url.com]url.com: Search with Many[/url]
[url=  http://url.com/]url.com: Search with Many[/url]
[url=  http://www.url.com]url.com: Search with Many[/url]
[url=  http://www.url.com/]url.com: Search with Many[/url]

 

[SnapJacks]

Thanks guys.

I did some checking and it appears all my 301s are working just fine. My non-trailing-slash pages are automatically 301ing to my trailing-slash pages which return a 200.

Not sure if this is Yoast SEO taking care of that issue, or if wordpress just does it automatically. In any case all is well. But will definitely link to the proper trailing-slash version from now on.

Also with regards to the root, google webmaster central says,

Rest assured that for your root URL specifically, http://example.com is equivalent to http://example.com/ and can’t be redirected even if you’re Chuck Norris.

thnx again guys.