SEO gone mad...

[Aleksandar Lazic]

Hi.

Am 13-10-2015 21:39, schrieb steve:
> Thanks for all the replies - I've not been ignoring you, I'm just in a
> different timezone!
> 
> On 10/14/2015 03:16 AM, Patrick Nommensen wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Andrew Hutchings
>> <ahutchings at nginx.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday 13 October 2015 08:59:02 steve wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>> 
>>>> I have a requirement from a customer that the terminal slash be
>>>> rewritten when accessing the homepage - eg example.com/ [1] is a
>>> 301 to
>>>> example.com [2]
>>>> 
>>>> I've tried a simple rewrite of ^/$ but that just loops.
>>>> 
>>>> Any ideas?
>>> 
>>> As you have seen in other answers this will be pretty much
>>> impossible to get
>>> right. Have you considered writing some Javascript to do it client
>>> side
>>> instead? Something like this:
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953792/change-url-in-browser-address-bar-without-reload-existing-page
>>> 
>>> At least then (in theory) you can have the illusion of hiding the
>>> trailing
>>> slash without risking breaking browser support for the site.
>> 
>> You can set a canonical URL if your intention is for SEO. This is the
>> standard practice.
>> 
>> https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
>> 
>>> Kind Regards
>>> --
>>> Andrew Hutchings (LinuxJedi)
>>> Senior Developer Advocate, NGINX Inc.
> 
> As can be seen from the google article, it's apparently a bad thing(tm)
> to duplicate content for example.com/ and example.com. Apparently some
> .htaccess tweak can do a 301 redirect from one to the other, but
> absolutely nothing that has been suggested ( or others that allegedly
> work - like redirecting ^/(.*)/ ) does actually work with nginx, which
> is exactly what I expected to happen.
> 
> The CMS ( it's Magento but that doesn't really make a difference )
> rewrites the URL to the value stored in the database anyway,  but the
> 'problem' is that it doesn't redirect.
> 
> As has been suggested, this is a complete non-event, as every page
> contains a canonical header entry anyway! Have suggested that client
> engages other SEO 'consultants'.

Good suggestion ;-)

> Now need to wash the snake oil out of my head (:
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Steve
> 
> --
> Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MIITP
> http://www.greengecko.co.nz
> Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveholdoway
> Skype: sholdowa
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://example.com/
> [2] http://example.com
> 
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