SEO gone mad...

[nanaya]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015, at 04:58 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> When your customer states categorically that it is a problem, then it is 
> my job to investigate.
> 

You said

> >> 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

but the google article clearly says otherwise (unless you're referring
to a different google article).