Magento SEO Questions

How should I deal with the trailing slash canonical issue?

The trailing slash canonical issue is one of the most talked about technical SEO issues with the Magento platform, as most URLs on Magento sites render with or without a trailing slash – meaning there are two versions of each page. This generally becomes a problem when large sites have links pointing to both versions, which can lead to both pages ranking and also means the link value is split between two pages.

The obvious choice with the trailing slash issue is to apply a rewrite rule, however whenever I’ve tried this I’ve always had an issue somewhere (checkout, admin etc). I use MageSEO to assign a primary URL suffix (either / or no /), which then ensures that the canonical tag points to that suffix on all pages across the website.

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