Domain Links or SubDomain Links, which is better?

[BeytzNet]

Hi,

I only now found out that www.domain.com and www.domain.com/ are different.

Most of my external links are directed to  www.domain.com/ 
Which I understand is considered the subdomain and not the domain.

Should I redirect? (and if so how?)
Should I post new links only to my domain?

[Highland]

While they are technically different, most robots (mostly the ones that matter) are smart enough to figure out those are the same URL. I wouldn't worry about the trailing slash, although it doesn't hurt to be consistent.

Your terminology is off, however. The subdomain is what appears before the domain. So www.domain.com is a subdomain of domain.com. The trailing slash is part of the URL structure that denotes a part of the website.

[BeytzNet]

Highland,

This is what open site explorer shows.

It states that I have 2,005 external links to www.domain.com

and it shows that I have 7,164 total external links to www.domain.com/

It also refers to the second as a subdomain.

[mad2k]

Hi,

from SEO point of view it is almost the same as in Highland response. Technically it is better to end links with trailing slash because when you put without server is queried 2 times (id depends on mod-rewrite in .htaccess file)

But remember it works only for main domain. For deeper structure like:

www.example.com/content

www.example.com/content/

are two diff things 1st is a file content address,  2nd is an index of catalogue "content" if exist if not 1st rule

[BeytzNet]

Thanks. The site I was asking about  is written in aspx so there is no htaccess file.
Also I was asking specifically on the home page as it seems that the SEOMoz crawler states as if I have duplicate content on my homepage - because of the slash...
I knew to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com but didn't give any consideration to the "/".

Regardless (on the same matter), I have another site which is a wordpress site and now you got me wondering - where to should I link to in my articles:

www.example.com/content

www.example.com/content/

Because both would get the same page...

[mad2k]

In Wordpress you don't have catalogues except e.g. catalogues on servr like "/wp-content/uploads/....",  only posts. Some type of specific posts functions as pages.

A little bit different is with pages which are created by dynamic query like tag, category, archives. But in the end they are also posts with one specific url.

I'm linking with "/" but google indexed pages reported to index with or without "/" on the same way.