(Entry was posted by Neil Cheesma on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 03/26/2017).

Trailing backslash in URL, yes or no?

If a domain (home page) resolves with a trailing backslash and also without - problem or not? (in terms of duplicate content)

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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

Jody Nesbitt: yes, its a dup content issue, see here https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html
Neil Cheesman: I read that a short while ago... it also says "Rest assured that for your root URL specifically, http://example.com is equivalent to http://example.com/ and canâ€™t be redirected even if youâ€™re Chuck Norris."
Steve Wiideman: It`s on our list, but not as high of a priority as great content; canonical tags are a great hint to SEs, if replacing internal links is too much of an effort.