Add slash to the base url

[Piotr Sikora]

> I am referring to Subject II: Urls and Redirects (page no 20).

I don't see anything there that says that "www.google.com" and 
"www.google.com/" are different for search engines.

> Also here is another example from Matt Cutt's blog -
> http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/#comment-8260
> I have seen this being mentioned on some other forums too. A quick
> google search lists a lot of discussions -
> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=trailing+slash+seo

This is just some random stuff you can find on the Internet.
It doesn't mean that there is any science, research or knowledge behind it.

And on top of that, you're missing one important thing:
"http://www.google.com/something" translates to "/something",
"http://www.google.com/something/" translates to "/something/",
but both:
"http://www.google.com" and "http://www.google.com/" translate to "/".

Best regards,
Piotr Sikora < piotr.sikora at frickle.com >