SEO gone mad...

[nanaya]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015, at 04:39 AM, steve wrote:
> 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.
> 

I don't know how you can miss this which has been quoted before:

```
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.
```

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html