(Entry was posted by Yuliana Kronrod on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/25/2018).

Root domain canonical questio

Root domain canonical question: would it matter if trailing slash is used or not: vs ... .com/"> - the rest of the site defaults to no-slash. Thanks!

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YOUR ANSWERS

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Dave Elliott: yes, slash matters......Or it as the case is
Richard Hearne: No, slash doesn`t matter in the case of root domain. It does matter for any inner resource on a domain, but not the root page. See: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.2.3 An empty abs_path is equivalent to an abs_path of "/".
Dave Elliott: Hmmm I stand corrected. Never knew that!
Faith Dugan: i dont understand this "canonical" thing and when to use it...