(Entry was posted by Nathan Nikolay Gaidy on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/28/2020).

What to do when GSC tracks .com & .com/ separately?

Which way is the best course of action if Google Search Console tracks .com & .com/ seperatly?
Does it mean that the page rank is unique to each url?

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YOUR ANSWERS

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

Ryan Jones: if they`re showing in search console as 2 separate URLs with different clicks/impressions and you don`t have a canonical tag or redirect in place, you should put a redirect or canonical tag in place.
Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: Ryan Jones How can I put a redirect from .com/ to .com?

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Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: Thanks for your swift reply
Ryan Jones: you can force a trailing slash or no trailing slash with .htaccess if you`re on apache.
Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: Unfortunately it`s WordPress so I added the URL on the front page.

How long do you think it takes Google to figure it out?
Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: by the way how can I redirect website.com to website.com/

i think in this case it is only a canonical tag, no?
Ryan Jones: depending on your host you can change the settings in htaccess or your redirects file. if you`ve never done it before though, it`s not super straightforward. you may want to talk to your dev or your host to do it.
Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: Well I had http and https indexed. My bad.