(Entry was posted by Ted Rinshed on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 03/08/2018).

I`m not sure how to fix a canonical issue

RE: Canonicals I`m not sure how to fix a canonical issue mywebsite dotcom (original URL) mywebsite dotcom/ (canonical) I did a software audit and it says the canonical should be changed to match my original website URL. How do I get rid of the forward slash?

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Shelly Fagin: The forward slash is typically added by the server. If you are running on an Apache server you can typically over ride this with an htaccess rewrite. Youâ€™ll need to make sure the trailing slash URLs 301 to no-slash version and that your canonicals are with no-slash too.
Dawn Anderson: John Mu did a recent piece on this once (regarding the forward slash at the end of the home page. This is essentially part of universal / global canonicalisation so won`t matter (they are both treated the same). It only matters at file or folder level. It`s just the way servers work