Simple question in regards to the use of / for SEO - hoping for a simple yes or no

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by spycraft, Feb 11, 2010.

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    Hello all,

    Here is my question:

    Assume that I have a site at http://www.example.com/

    If I build 500 links to http://www.example.com and another 500 links to http://www.example.com/ would it be as if I had built 1000 links to one of the two?

    In other words, is http://www.example.com/ and http://www.example.com the same?

    I know that "www." and no "www." is very different, but that makes sense since one is a sub-domain of the other. Is this also the case when it comes to a trailing backslash for the homepage?
     
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    praetserge Notable Member

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    Nope. If I am reading what praetserge is saying properly, then it pretty much answers my question. The only doubt that I still have is this - even though both www.example.com and www.example.com/ are pointing to the same page, if you check the source code of the site with the link, you will be able to see whether a "/" has been used. Since the search engines won't actually "click" on the link (they will just read that code), could it make ANY kind of difference in terms of SEO?
     
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