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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Trailing slashes in URLs can affect SEO ratings

Written By

Lucas Mesquita

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Issue

  • When access the URL with a slash in the end, the page shows the same content as the page without slash, Google indexes both pages, notices they are the same and may reduce the ranking.

Environment

  • All environments

Resolution

  • Unfortunately, currently there isn't a feature OOTB to redirect to the main page or generate a 404 error when accessing the URL with the slash.
  • According to some analysis, this shouldn't have a penalization for SEO since since we use rel="canonical".
  • In any case, if there exists any possibility of penalty Liferay will try to avoid it. That's why this related story has been created: LPD-17944.

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