Trailing slash

A trailing slash is a forward slash (“/”) placed at the end of a URL such as domain.com/ or domain.com/page/. The trailing slash is generally used to distinguish a directory which has the trailing slash from a file that does not have the trailing slash. ... These days, URLs in most systems aren't pointing to files.

1. Should URLs have a trailing slash?
2. How do you fix trailing slash issues?
3. What is the slash in a URL?
4. How do you put a slash in a URL?

Should URLs have a trailing slash?

The short answer is that the trailing slash does not matter for your root domain or subdomain. Google sees the two as equivalent. But trailing slashes do matter for everything else because Google sees the two versions (one with a trailing slash and one without) as being different URLs.

How do you fix trailing slash issues?

A 301 redirect is the best way to resolve duplicate content issues caused by trailing slashes. If you're just fixing one page, you'd redirect the duplicate copy to the version that matches your chosen URL structure. Most trailing slash issues however, affect many pages across a website.

What is the slash in a URL?

A slash at the end of the URL makes the address look "pretty". A URL without a slash at the end and without an extension looks somewhat "weird".

How do you put a slash in a URL?

This is used in URLs to encode/escape other characters. It should also be encoded.
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URL Encoding of Special Characters.