Hello, I am talking about something like this: www.domain.com/123/category/ versus www.domain.com/123/category Which is better? I check the PR of each URL and they have different PageRank. The one has PR and the other has no PR at all. Which should I use??
Dwiggles is correct, more than likely if one has PR and the other doesn't, then it means that the one with higher PR is most frequently used. That being the case, you shouldn't switch this late in the game.
I think it doesn't realy mather that much. But what I can say is that both is not good. Because that might look like duplicate content
It really doesnt matter as long as you stick with one and be consistent with it. This avoids possible duplicate content I uses the slash on my sites. I also have a 301 redirect rule to redirect all pages from the one without to the ones with "/".
I think a very good example is this URL: (not mine, but I wish it is mine LOL) http://www.break.com/categories/ ==== has PR5 versus http://www.break.com/categories ==== has no PR I doubt users will type http://www.break.com/categories/ I think users or visitor of that site will only type/share - break.com/categories My situation is somehow similar. My problem now is that I already started building backlinks "WITHOUT" the "/" at the end. so I have backlinks of my site: mysite.com/categories I renovated my site and now my URLs are ending in "/" and I do not know how to change it back.
That's because their websites default path is "/categories/" and that's where the google bots end up. It's just bad website permalink structure in this case, because "/categories" doesn't redirect to "/categories/" which it should do. It's the same as redirecting "http://example.com" to "http://www.example.com". It ensures that all your page authority from backlinks ends up on the correct page. As for your question: There is ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE which one you choose, as long as you just stick to ONE. Hope that cleared up some things.
As far as I know, it doesn't make any difference. Personally, I prefer the way a URL looks when it doesn't have the final "/" on it, but I've seen it both ways. I think that to be "technically" correct it should have that final "/" on it, but in common use it doesn't make any difference.
In This Situation, both Url bad for your Site Because One Url You Creating User,s Friendly And Second One Crawler Frienldy,So Both Url,s Updated Content Duplicated And Crawler Panish For This.So We Aware .......
I think it doesn't matter at all and regarding of the url with / has a high pr ranking this is due to how the website is being optimized well unlike the url without / has no pr this is because they have different implementation of SEO. They are the same, and it will depend on how they perform in the search engine rankings.
I saw your page in my web browser with "/" and without "/" and also i have checked the cache memory for both page and finally i got result there is crawling problem with your page when i seen same thing with "/" in cache memory they showing proper with cached date but when i seen same thing without "/" they doesn't showing any cached memory for this page, that is what you should crawel your page first by submitting your without "/" page on Social Bookmarking website and another submission portal. when crawler will crawle your that without "/" page you can easily get same position for both with "/" and without "/" pages.
Both are same are the trying to test us?, both the urls are same there is not any difference between them. However definitely high page rank url is preferable and your should choose it.