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?
whenever you list your website as www.example.com the link automatically points to www.example.com/. As this is directory you need to use /. So you will have 1000 links. The problem may arise when you use www.example.com/page1/ and www.example.com/page1 as they are two different things... unfortunately. The problem is if you use 301 redirect from www.example.com/page1 to www.example.com/page1/ you will get indefinite loop.
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?