Changed the trailing slashes - how it effect SEO?
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Hi, I'm doing a project called https://www.machinerygate.com/
Due to trailing slashes issues, our developer requests to remove the trailing slashes from the URLs. However, the homepage with and without trailing slashes the same effect right. How about the inner pages affect SEO. Because we just started to do SEO and not even one single link of Inner pages done with the process. However, for example, the URL for https://www.machinerygate.com/machinery/cranes/ is before with trailing slashes and it is on google indexed with trailing slashes. Due to some bug, google inspection tool has been not functioning nowadays and I'm finding hard to index the new URL without trailing slashes https://www.machinerygate.com/machinery/cranes to index on Google. If this gets indexed, how the URL with trailing slashes will be, does it automatically redirect to URL without trailing slashes or not?
Please share your thought about this concern.
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Hi there,
Be sure to redirect all the URLs with trailing slash to the URLs with no trailing slash via 301 redirects. Also, you need to make sure that your canonical tags do not have trailing slashes. Make sure you update all the URLs across your site to no trailing slash, so Google can discover the new URLs faster.
Ross
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